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1648: Robert Herrick published his collection of...

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1648

Robert Herrick published his collection of poems, Hesperides.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

23 March 1866: The Jamaica Government Act was passed in...

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23 March 1866

The Jamaica Government Act was passed in the UK; it was the first of a number of instances in which a constitution was rewritten to incorporate rule from London.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
690
Wiseman, Herbert Victor. A Short History of the British West Indies. University of London Press, 1950.
81

1694-1706: Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three...

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1694-1706

Quaker printer Tace Sowle produced three volumes of the works of George Fox (Quaker pioneer, husband of Margaret Fell ): his Journal, Epistles, and Gospel-Truth Demonstrated.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
254-5
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1825: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his...

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1825

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his historical drama Boris Godunov.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
283, 446
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...

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9 November 1640

In a season during which John Pym and the Long Parliament created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6

22 August 1791: Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the...

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22 August 1791

Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the princesse de Lamballe , persuading the princess to stay away from her for the sake of the safety of both of them.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31.
226

December 1990: Bibliographer G. Thomas Tanselle spoke out...

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December 1990

Bibliographer G. Thomas Tanselle spoke out at Columbia University about what he termed the microfilming epidemic, with attendant destruction of texts once microfilmed.
Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Random House, 2001.
222

Eliza Fay

EF , a traveller and businesswoman of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, wrote lively, observant, opinionated travel diaries and letters which did well when she printed them.

1889: Elizabeth Cochrane(Nellie Bly), the notorious...

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1889

Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly), the notorious Americanreporter, set out to better the (fictional) record for travellingaround the world set by the hero of Jules Verne 'snovel Around the World in EightyDays.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
333, 336
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
14 November 2016

1384: John Wycliffe completed the first English...

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1384

John Wycliffe completed the first English translation of the Bible, and circulated it widely in manuscript.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Clemence Dane

CD wrote, during the earlier twentieth century, over thirty plays for the stage, radio, and screen, in addition to her journalism and other non-fiction, and fourteen fictional works ranging from girls' school novels to detective...
Clemence Dane Black and white photograph of Clemence Dane, shown from the shoulders up, and posed with her body on an angle and her face turned to face the camera directly. She is wearing a black shirt with a long, dark, beaded necklace, and she has short, dark hair.

8 August 1910: The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated...

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8 August 1910

The first talking motion pictures were demonstrated by Thomas Edison .
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

Margaret Bryan

MB was a leading educator and populariser of science: a schoolteacher who published three standard scientific textbooks during the early nineteenth century and the final years of the eighteenth. She also created or advised on...
Margaret Bryan Stipple engraving of Margaret Bryan with her two daughters by William Nutter from a painting by Samuel Shelley, used as frontispiece to Bryan's first book, "A Compendious System of Astronomy", 1797. It shows Bryan with a telescope and celestial globe behind her, measuring instruments on a table, and her pen in hand, wearing a dark gown , white shift, and white turban. Her hair is long and curled.

3 November 1854: University College, Ireland's first Catholic...

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3 November 1854

University College , Ireland's first Catholic university, was officially opened at 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Coolahan, John. Irish Education: Its History and Structure. Institute of Public Administration, 1981.
119-20

October 1884: The University College of North Wales opened...

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October 1884

The University College of North Wales opened at Bangor; it admitted women from its opening date.
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
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Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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1988: Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss became the first...

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1988

Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss became the first woman in Britain's Court of Appeal; her official title was, like that of her male colleagues, Lord Justice.
Dyer, Clare. “Where are the women?”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. G2: 16.
G2: 16

1816: The menopause, as a set of medical symptoms,...

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1816

The menopause, as a set of medical symptoms, was first delineated, by the FrenchmanC. P. L. De Gardanne .
Swenson, Kristine. “The Menopausal Vampire: Arabella Kenealy and the boundaries of true womanhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
10
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 27-46.
3-4 and n5

1845: The Chartist Co-operative Land Society was...

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1845

The Chartist Co-operative Land Society was founded.
Historian Jutta Schwarzkopf calls it the Chartist Land Co-operative Society.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
39-41
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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Margaret Roper

MR , though she is still known to history primarily as her father's daughter, was celebrated during her early-sixteenth-century lifetime for her letters and her translation of a theological treatise by Desiderius Erasmus .
Margaret Roper Head and shoulders of Margaret Roper, part of a More family-group painting commissioned by a later generation from Rowland Lockey, based on an original by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1593, which does not survive. Roper wears a dark red and black gown, several strings of beads, and a gable hood decorated with pearl trim and gold stitching. National Portrait Gallery.

Maria Grey

MG wrote during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her early productions were literary: she collaborated with her sister on a narrative and a novel, and then produced a second novel independently. Her later...
Maria Grey Low-resolution black-and-white photo of Maria Grey sitting in a chair,holding a book. She has a white cap tied round her head and she is wearing glasses. Her dress is buttoned up the front and topped by a short jacket.

June 1925: The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts...

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June 1925

The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts Guild to promote socialist drama and performance.
Merkin, Ros. “The religion of socialism or a pleasant Sunday afternoon?: The ILP Arts Guild”. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 162-89.
162, 165, 168, 174-5, 181

1949: Chrysler developed a key-method for starting...

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1949

Chrysler developed a key-method for starting cars.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
253

January 1790: The Cercle Social, a political social club...

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January 1790

The Cercle Social , a political social club which included women, was founded in Paris.
Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
62-3
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
105, 369

1832: John William Parker established his own publishing...

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1832

John William Parker established his own publishing business at 445 West Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 233

1554: After the death of the Venetian Renaissance...

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1554

After the death of the Venetian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa , her poems were published by her sister, Cassandra, at Venice as Rime di Madonna G. Stampa. They were reprinted there in 1738, sharing...