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1881: Sins of the Cities of the Plains, a pornographic...

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1881

Sins of the Cities of the Plains, a pornographic novel, was privately published by William Lazenby ; it may have been the collaborative effort of James Campbell Reddie and Simeon Solomon .
Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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5 March 1976: The pound sterling first fell below two US...

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5 March 1976

The pound sterling first fell below two US dollars in value.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1886: Eleanor Marx, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published...

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1886

Eleanor Marx , as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published her English translation of Gustave Flaubert 's Madame Bovary from the original French.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

20 April-12 August 1898: The Spanish-American war was fought (to Cubans...

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20 April-12 August 1898

The Spanish-American war was fought (to Cubans the second stage of their war of independence): the US succeeded to Spain as major foreign power active in South America.
Netz, Reviel. “Barbed Wire”. London Review of Books, 20 July 2000, pp. 30-5.
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The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War. http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronology.html.

1774: William Enfield first published his often-reprinted...

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1774

William Enfield first published his often-reprinted pedagogic anthology The Speaker.
Although this is the earliest edition recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue, it calls itself a new edition.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...

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1968

At the end of Edmund Blunden 's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford , Roy Fuller was elected to follow him.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25.
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26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...

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26 November 1761

John Rich , holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre , died; his widow, Priscilla (who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 881, 905
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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30 August 1709: The Tatler asserted that women were obsessed...

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30 August 1709

The Tatler asserted that women were obsessed with their own beauty: this great evil proceeded from an unaccountable wild Method in the Education of the better half of the World, the Women.
Steele, Sir Richard, editor. The Tatler. Printed for the author, 1-272.
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June 1843: Ben Webster, manager of the Haymarket, announced...

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June 1843

Ben Webster , manager of the Haymarket , announced a play-writing contest.
Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 54-74.
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2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...

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2 May 1857

A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum .
Barwick, George. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Ernest Benn, 1929.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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Maya Angelou

MA overcame the unpromising circumstances of her birth and upbringing to become an African-American poet, song-writer, autobiographer, and political activist, a talented Renaissance woman of the twentieth-century United States.
Younge, Gary. “Maya Angelou: a titan who lived as though there were no tomorrow”. The Guardian, 29 May 2014.
Maya Angelou Colour photo of Maya Angelou speaking at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is sitting, talking away from the microphone on her right, wearing a black dress with gold chain and disc earrings, hands clasped in her lap.

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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25 March 1860: Emily Faithfull established the Victoria...

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25 March 1860

Emily Faithfull established the Victoria Press at 9 Great Coram Street, near Russell Square, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 311, 313

March 1914: Wyndham Lewis formed the Rebel Art Centre,...

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March 1914

Wyndham Lewis formed the Rebel Art Centre , an artists' co-operative set up as a rival group to Roger Fry 's Omega Workshops .
Anscombe, Isabelle. Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts. Thames and Hudson, 1981.
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Materer, Timothy. Vortex: Pound, Eliot, and Lewis. Cornell University Press, 1979.
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1884: The Marine Biological Association was fo...

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1884

The Marine Biological Association was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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1851: In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or,...

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1851

In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or, a Spy in the Family, Jemima Luke presents a Roman Catholic young woman, Marie, taken in by a Protestant family, where she makes all kinds of trouble.
Peschier, Diana. “Vulnerable Women and the Danger of Gliding Jesuits: England in the Nineteenth Century”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2004, pp. 281-0.
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1932: Dundee publishing firm D. C. Thomson began...

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1932

Dundee publishing firm D. C. Thomson began Secrets, a weekly magazine specializing in sensational fiction.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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1827: British builder and businessman Goldsworthy...

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1827

British builder and businessman Goldsworthy Gurney operated the first public motor vehicle.
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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August 1831: The French expelled the Dutch from Belgium,...

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August 1831

The French expelled the Dutch from Belgium, which had declared its independence from them the previous year.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1905: Goldsmiths' College, University of London,...

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1905

Goldsmiths' College, University of London , was founded.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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Crook, J. Mordaunt. “The Architectural Image”. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986, edited by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson, Hambledon Press, 1990, pp. 1-33.
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1633: Dramatist John Ford published a particularly...

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1633

Dramatist John Ford published a particularly violent and disturbing tragedy entitled 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1975: The Women in Publishing Group, Women in Science,...

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1975

The Women in Publishing Group , Women in Science , and Women's Research and Resource Centre (WRRC ) were all founded in London, and the journal Bread and Roses was launched in Leeds.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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Autumn 1745: After the battle of Prestonpans , the mercury...

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Autumn 1745

After the battle of Prestonpans, the mercuryMary Cooper published The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g's Midnight Club, a satire centred on sexuality.
The Highlanders Salivated, or the Loyal Association of M[o]ll K[in]g’s Midnight Club. Printed for M. Cooper, 1746.
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30 June 1908: The first act of damage was committed by...

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30 June 1908

The first act of damage was committed by Women's Social and Political Union supporters Edith New and Mary Leigh , when they stoned the windows of 10 Downing Street.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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10 December 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain...

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10 December 1906

Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for original work on cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.