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May 1749: Ralph Griffiths began publishing the Monthly...

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May 1749

Ralph Griffiths began publishing the Monthly Review.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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6 November 1860: Oil was struck at the first Canadian oil...

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6 November 1860

Oil was struck at the first Canadian oil well, sunk at Petrolia, Ontario.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 471

Easter 1936: Billy (Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne)...

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Easter 1936

Billy (Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne) Butlin opened his first holiday camp at the bracing East coast holiday resort of Skegness in Lincolnshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 February 1831: Steam-driven buses invented by Sir Goldsworthy...

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21 February 1831

Steam-driven buses invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney began regular service between Gloucester and Cheltenham.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
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Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
388

1859: Artist James McNeill Whistler moved to L...

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1859

Artist James McNeill Whistler moved to London.
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
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By 1852: Hereford, Yeovil, and Weymouth were the only...

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By 1852

Hereford, Yeovil, and Weymouth were the only sizeable English towns still not served by a railway.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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1934: Evangeline Cora Booth, daughter of Salvation...

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1934

Evangeline Cora Booth , daughter of Salvation Army founders Catherine and William Booth , was elected Commander of the Salvation Army worldwide.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
370

August 1918: Irish suffragist groups campaigned against...

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August 1918

Irish suffragist groups campaigned against Regulation 40.D of the Defence of the Realm Act (40.D DORA), under which any woman accused by a soldier of having venereal disease could be detained and medically examined.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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Amelia Bristow

AB wrote during the early nineteenth century for her inadequate living, turning out novels, more than one conduct book, and work for magazines. Most notable is her series of novels about the Jewish-Polish background from...
Amelia Bristow Title page of Amelia Bristow's "Emma de Lissau; A Narrative of Striking Vicissitudes and Peculiar Trials; With Notes Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Jews" (2nd ed., 1829), vol 1. Published by T. Gardiner and Son.

1934: Mollie Stanley Wrench, as Mrs Stanley Wrench,...

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1934

Mollie Stanley Wrench , as Mrs Stanley Wrench, published her cookbook Bachelor Woman's Cookery.
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March 1919: Home and Country began monthly publication...

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March 1919

Home and Country began monthly publication in London as the official organ of the Women's Institute .
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1879: Isla Stewart began her nursing career at...

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1879

Isla Stewart began her nursing career at the age of twenty-three as a probationer at the Nightingale Training School .
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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1580: Philip II acquired Portugal to add to the...

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1580

Philip II acquired Portugal to add to the possessions of the Spanish crown; Portugal and its overseas possessions remained Spanish until 1640.
Pagden, Anthony. “Great Expectations of Themselves”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 32-3.
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April 1906: The popular Evangelical journal Good Words...

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April 1906

The popular Evangelical journal Good Words (launched in 1860) ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Sarah Davy, 1639 - 1670

SD , as a later-seventeenth-century Independent or Baptist in religion, wrote an autobiographical account of her conversion and religious meditations, which was published after her premature death.

Kathleen Raine

KR 's lengthy, successful career as twentieth-century poet, autobiographer, essayist, critic, and translator, won her many awards in England and other countries. She called the writing of words (especially poetry) her greatest joy. Paradoxically, it...

15 December 1683-5 February 1684: Unbroken freezing temperatures reigned in...

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15 December 1683-5 February 1684

Unbroken freezing temperatures reigned in London; when the Thames froze, by 23 December 1683, a frost fair was held, which featured booths, a puppet theatre, and a printing press.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Ethel Smyth

All of ES 's writings are richly autobiographical. They provide an acute and open account of her experience as a woman entering a strictly delimited male field (in her case that of composing large-scale musical...
Ethel Smyth Black and white photograph of Ethel Smyth, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a tweed suit jacket with a white shirt underneath and a tie. Her dark is pulled into a bun on the top of her head.

25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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25 April 1928

Winston Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880

Sarah Anna Lewis was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four...

1938: Lady Reading founded the Women's Voluntary...

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1938

Lady Reading founded the Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence (WVS). At the onset of World War Two, the WVS had 500,000 volunteers.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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15 November 1942: Church bells (which quite recently had stood...

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15 November 1942

Church bells (which quite recently had stood ready to signal invasion) were rung all over Britain, in the wake of the battle of El Alamein, to celebrate the defeat of Rommel .
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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Gertrude Bell

GB , who began publishing in the late nineteenth century, became well-known in the early twentieth century as a writer of popular travel narratives. She also wrote books on archeological and political topics, and she...
Gertrude Bell Black and white photo of Gertrude Bell standing in front of a tent in Iraq, 1941, palm trees in the background. She has a covering on her head to protect her from the sun. She is wearing a jacker, a long skirt, and unsuitable-looking shoes.

25 May 1995: Naim Attallah, proprietor of the Women's...

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25 May 1995

Naim Attallah , proprietor of the Women's Press, published his first novel, entitled A Timeless Passion. Like all his other works, it was later asserted to be actually ghost-written, every word, by his...

June 1973: A power-sharing assembly was elected in Northern...

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June 1973

A power-sharing assembly was elected in Northern Ireland, but its first sitting, the following month, was disrupted by Ian Paisley and his followers.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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