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27 July 1794: The guillotining of Robespierre signalled...

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27 July 1794

The guillotining of Robespierre signalled an end to the Terror in France.
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
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Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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1891: The Central and East of England Society for...

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1891

The Central and East of England Society for Women's Suffrage began to publish an annual paper in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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813: At the Council of Tours, Charlemagne, in...

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At the Council of Tours , Charlemagne , in the last year before he died, ordered sermons to be preached in local tongues instead of Latin.
Rickard, Peter. A History of the French Language. Hutchinson, 1974.
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Rosen, Michael. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story. John Murray, 2013.
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1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...

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1680

John Dryden , with others, published a collaborative verse translation of Ovid 's Epistles (or Heroides).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

4 June 1915: The 14th Sikhs Battery from India was annihilated...

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4 June 1915

The 14th Sikhs Battery from India was annihilated at Gallipoli.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1858: Rachel Felix, the celebrated tragic actress,...

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1858

Rachel Felix , the celebrated tragic actress, died of pulmonary consumption.
Booth, Michael R. et al. Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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November 1925: Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage...

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November 1925

Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage performance in Walter de la Mare 's Crossings at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith near London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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4 November 2015: On the day of his swearing in, the newly-elected...

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4 November 2015

On the day of his swearing in, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau , was asked why he had selected a Cabinet made up of fifty percent women. He answered: Because it's 2015.
Austen, Ian. “Justin Trudeau Is Sworn In as Prime Minister of Canada”. The New York Times, 4 Nov. 2015.
Austen, Ian. “Justin Trudeau Is Sworn In as Prime Minister of Canada”. The New York Times, 4 Nov. 2015.

27 May 1647: Parliament ordered the New Model Army to...

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27 May 1647

Parliament ordered the New Model Army to disband: a tactical error which merely intensified the army's politicization.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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December 1865-November 1866: Charles Reade's controversial Griffith Gaunt;...

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December 1865-November 1866

Charles Reade 's controversial Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy was serialised in The Argosy.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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30 September 1957: The Independent Schools Registration Regulations...

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30 September 1957

The Independent Schools Registration Regulations compelled proprietors of private schools to register them with the Ministry of Education within six months. Henceforward they would be subject to the same government inspectorate as state schools.
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
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March 1882: The first issue appeared of The Gatherer,...

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March 1882

The first issue appeared of The Gatherer, a small literary and feminist magazine published in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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Thomas Holcroft

29-30 September 1789: The London-based Welsh society named the...

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29-30 September 1789

The London-based Welsh society named the Gwyneddigion (founded in 1770) sponsored its first eisteddfod: at Bala in Merionethshire.
James, E. Wyn. “Ann Griffiths. gwefan / website”. Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd.
“Iolo’s People. The London-Welsh Societies”. Iolo Morganwg.

1799: The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the...

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1799

The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the playwright Richard Cumberland ) died, one of her nieces published her Poems, to which Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More , among others, subscribed.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

23 June 1925: British troops fired into striking crowds...

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23 June 1925

British troops fired into striking crowds in Canton, killing fifty-two people and wounding a hundred and seventeen; this followed an incident in Shanghai on 30 May 1925, which left nine people dead and twenty...

1756: Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le...

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1756

Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le Magasin des enfants, a collection containing the first influential and literary formulation of the popular fairy story Beauty and the Beast.
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34.
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6 October 1923: Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at the Mount...

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6 October 1923

Edwin Hubble , an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Laboratory in California, first photographed the galaxy Andromeda, and discovered a variable star which enabled measurement of the distance between Andromeda and Earth.
Cowen, Ron. “Galaxy Hunters”. National Geographic, Vol.
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, No. 2, Feb. 2003, pp. 2-29.
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Mary Pix

MP , writing and publishing at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, was the most prolific female playwright since Behn . Her comedies, full of fun and acute observation...
Mary Pix Painting of Mary Pix by an unknown artist, c. 1690. She wears a beige gown, loose and low on her bare shoulders, and a brown shawl. National Portrait Gallery.

1 February 1793: Britain and revolutionary France declared...

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1 February 1793

Britain and revolutionary France declared war on each other; France also declared war on Holland. For Britain this opened a period of more than twenty years' almost unremitting warfare.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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November 1917: The Ministry of Munitions stated that women...

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November 1917

The Ministry of Munitions stated that women performed 80% of all munitions work.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
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14 April 1865: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United...

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14 April 1865

Abraham Lincoln , President of the United States, was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth , at Ford's Theatre, Washington.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
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, Anchor, 1978.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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Margaret Fuller

An important social and cultural critic in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, MF published in a variety of forms, including travel literature, translations from German (notably Goethe , about whom she also published...
Margaret Fuller Half-length engraving of Margaret Fuller after a painting by Thomas Hicks. She sits holding a book on her lap, wearing a dress with a bow at its V neck, her hair smooth in front and wavy behind.

1926: With the establishment of the World Union...

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1926

With the establishment of the World Union for Progressive Judaism , hosted in London, liberal Judaism achieved international organizational unity.
Eliade, Mircea, and Charles J. Adams, editors. The Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan, 1987, 16 vols.
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