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3 August 1881: The Seventh International Medical Congress...

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3 August 1881

The Seventh International Medical Congress was officially opened in London by the Prince of Wales, bringing medical science onto an international public stage, albeit an all-male one.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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August 1915: The British Association for the Advancement...

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August 1915

The British Association for the Advancement of Science declared that, generally, adult women were less productive employees than adult men.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
106

1774: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Die...

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1774

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (translated into English by June 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact).
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
47 (1779)
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.
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24 June 1803: An act of parliament made abortion a statutory...

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24 June 1803

An act of parliament made abortion a statutory felony (instead of a common-law crime) and pronounced infanticide to be murder. Where it could be proved that a baby was stillborn, juries were free to bring...

December 1958: Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company,...

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December 1958

Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company , to perform both at Stratford and in London.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
182-3

15 March 1961: Following a referendum in South Africa the...

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15 March 1961

Following a referendum in South Africa the previous October and the Commonwealth Conference vote condemning apartheid, Heinrich Verwoerd formally withdrew South Africa from the British Commonwealth .
South African History online. 30 Mar. 2005, http://www.sahistory.org.za/.
under 1960-1969

15 April 1912: The Daily Herald, first newspaper of the...

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15 April 1912

The Daily Herald, first newspaper of the Labour Party , was launched on capital of £200; it changed its title to the Herald and back again to the Daily Herald before expiring in 1964.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Taylor, Miles. “Thanks to the Fels-Naptha Soap King”. London Review of Books, 22 May 2003, pp. 23-4.
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1834: The British Treasury instituted a Civil Service...

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1834

The British Treasury instituted a Civil Service examination in order to select the most suitable of three nominees chosen from a list prepared by the Patronage Secretary.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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5 July 1839: Lady Flora Hastings, a lady-in-waiting to...

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5 July 1839

Lady Flora Hastings , a lady-in-waiting to the mother of the young and inexperienced Queen Victoria , died, probably of liver cancer, at Buckingham Palace after being publicly suspected of illicit pregnancy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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.

December 1915: Henry Ford's Peace Ship, the Oskar II, left...

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December 1915

Henry Ford 's Peace Ship, the Oskar II, left harbour at Hoboken, New Jersey, with one hundred and sixty people on board; they were sailing to Europe to promote mediation in the hope of...

13 January 1818: William Hazlitt delivered the first of eight...

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13 January 1818

William Hazlitt delivered the first of eight talks which were published as Lectures on the English Poets.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19: 287
Keynes, Geoffrey, Sir. Bibliography of William Hazlitt. Second Edition, St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1981.
xxiii, 38-9

John Norris

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

MAS , who issued her first publication in 1813, has period interest as an aesthetic theorist and a religious writer, an apologist for the French Jansenist movement connected with Port Royal , and later for...
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck Stipple engraving of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck by Fisher after a photograph by Henry Adlard, published 1858. She is sitting, wearing a tall, frilled cap and, it seems, both a shawl and a jacket over her dress. A scarf at her neckline has pinned to it a cross of the type called "cross pattée".

1826-7: William Blake published his last work as...

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1826-7

William Blake published his last work as an engraver: illustrations to Dante 's Divine Comedy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

July 1753: James Nelson published an Essay on the Government...

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July 1753

James Nelson published an Essay on the Government of Children.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
205-6, 287n40

Later 1925: Amy Lowell's final volume of poetry appeared:...

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Later 1925

Amy Lowell 's final volume of poetry appeared: What's O'Clock, finished just before her death on 12 May. It was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Hollenberg, Donna Krolik. “Hidden in Plain Sight”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 6, Nov.–Dec. 2012, pp. 12-13.
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1868: The report of the Schools Inquiry or Taunton...

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1868

The report of the Schools Inquiry or Taunton Commission supported the view of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Emily Davies , and others that girls' education required reform.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.
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Spender, Dale, editor. The Education Papers. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
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Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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1815: The Guardian Society was founded, with the...

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1815

The Guardian Society was founded, with the aim of clearing the City of London of vice.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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February 1921: The No More War Movement was founded....

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February 1921

The No More War Movement was founded.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Hinton, James. Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain. Hutchinson Radius, 1989, http://U of A HSS.
80-1

1856: The book Elegant Art for Ladies outlined...

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1856

The book Elegant Art for Ladies outlined suitable artistic endeavours for middle-class women.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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1886: The first practicable tandem bicycle or bicycle...

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1886

The first practicable tandem bicycle or bicycle built for two met with immediate success.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
130

Elizabeth Charles

Elizabeth Charles wrote novels, poems, and hymns, as well as books on historical and religious subjects. Her entire oeuvre is a testament to her vigorous evangelical convictions; her fiction typically marries religious didacticism with a...

1776: Josiah Tucker and John Cartwright, in the...

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1776

Josiah Tucker and John Cartwright , in the course of a printed exchange on the topic of taxation and representation, raised the issue of representation of women.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
342-3

15 October 1894: A Chinese Imperial edict for the protection...

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15 October 1894

A Chinese Imperial edict for the protection of foreigners and missionaries was proclaimed, in an attempt to discourage anti-missionary violence.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 786

3 May 1661: John Evelyn was shown a wonderfull engine...

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3 May 1661

John Evelyn was shown a wonderfull engine for weaving silk stockings, said to have been invented at Oxford forty years earlier.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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