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About 1606: Anna Walker beautifully transcribed a copy...

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About 1606

Anna Walker beautifully transcribed a copy of her devotional work A Sweete Savor for Woman, designed for presentation to its dedicatee, James I's queen, Anne of Denmark .
Trill, Suzanne. “A Feminist Critic in the Archives: Reading Anna Walker’s ’A Sweete Savor for Woman’ c. 1606”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 2, 2002, pp. 199-14.
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2 August 1870: The Tower Subway, forerunner of the Underground...

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2 August 1870

The Tower Subway, forerunner of the Underground system, opened its tunnel under the River Thames in London.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1 August 1714: Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover...

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1 August 1714

Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover to inform George I that he had assumed the throne.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Susan Smythies

SS published three novels during the 1750s, which show her well versed both in the modern novel created by Henry Fielding and Richardson , and in an older tradition of satirical and didactic fiction relying...

Iza Duffus Hardy

IDH published, during the later nineteenth century, a large output of novels of a romantic cast. She set some of them in exotic places, and also wrote travel books and contributed stories and other pieces...
Iza Duffus Hardy Portrait of Iza Duffus Hardy by Ford Madox Ford, 1872. She sits in an upholstered armchair, wearing a black dress with lace at wrists and neckline (finished with a black brooch), a gold-coloured shawl, and several strings of blue beads. Her hair is plaited and forms a crown around her head. Her fingers are interlaced, and she looks modestly down, away from the viewer.

1836: A distinctive die for newspaper stamps was...

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1836

A distinctive die for newspaper stamps was introduced to prevent illegal trading of stamps.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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1686: Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery...

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1686

Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery at St Cyr near Paris, a school for impoverished noble girls. Closed with other convents at the Revolution, the institution re-opened in 1808 as a school for...

1840: Protest erupted across Germany when France...

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1840

Protest erupted across Germany when France demanded a border along the Rhine.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
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26 August 1729: Dr James Augustus Blondel published The Power...

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26 August 1729

Dr James Augustus Blondel published The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Foetus examin'd.
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.

15 March 1907: The first women Members of Parliament for...

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15 March 1907

The first women Members of Parliament for a European country were elected—in Finland—following an Act of the previous year which extended the suffrage to women.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

1913: Edwin Landseer Lutyens was appointed to join...

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1913

Edwin Landseer Lutyens was appointed to join Herbert Baker as architects to design from scratch the city of New Delhi as capital of colonial India.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein concerned herself with problems of identity, knowledge, consciousness, and language. In a period of modernist experiment, she became famous as a radically innovative avant-gardist. Her experimental imagination played around with the generic requirements...
Gertrude Stein Black and white photo of Gertude Stein taken by Carl Van Vechten in early 1935. She is standing in front of an American flag, wearing a dark jacket and pale scarf.

November 1753: Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem,...

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November 1753

Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
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Teresia Constantia Phillips

TCP is one of the best-known of the courtesan memoirists of the eighteenth century, though it is still not unanimously agreed that she wrote her own text. Her letter to Chesterfield qualifies her as a...
Teresia Constantia Phillips Head-and-shoulders oval mezzotint of Teresia Constantia Phillips after a painting by Joseph HIghmore. She looks directly at the viewer, in a gown that crosses over at the bust with lace in the cleavage; her hair is arranged in tight curls on top and on her shoulders, decorated with strings of pearls. Her name is written below.

1874: Sonya Kovalevsky received her PhD—the first...

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1874

Sonya Kovalevsky received her PhD—the first mathematics doctorate granted to a woman—from the University of Göttingen .
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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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/.

Autumn 1864: The Female Medical College was opened in...

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Autumn 1864

The Female Medical College was opened in London by the Female Medical Society to train midwives.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Margaret Calderwood

MC , living and writing in the eighteenth century, is remembered for her travel journal (which grew out of letters to her daughter). As a Scotswoman she reports on the foreign country of England as...
Margaret Calderwood Painting of Margaret Calderwood, she is wearing a low cut brown dress and has a blue scarf over her left arm. The background is also a shade of brown, and her hair is black.

3 November 1975: Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the...

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3 November 1975

Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the United Kingdom's first oil pipeline in Dyce near Aberdeen.
“North Sea Oil Begins to Flow”. BBC News: On This Day, 3 Nov. 1975.

1970: The Education (Handicapped Children) Act...

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1970

The Education (Handicapped Children) Act made Local Education Authorities responsible for the education of all children: no child, no matter how severely handicapped, was to be classed as ineducable.
Rogers, Rick. Crowther to Warnock: How fourteen reports tried to change children’s lives. Heinemann Educational Books in association with the International Year of the Child, 1980.
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28 December 1915: Members of the British military held a meeting...

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28 December 1915

Members of the British military held a meeting with the intention of giving a name to the newly-invented military tank (so far called a machine-gun destroyer, a centipede, and Mother). It was named by Colonel Ernest Swinton

23 November 1752: George Ballard dated his preface to Memoirs...

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23 November 1752

George Ballard dated his preface to Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain . . . (better known as Memoirs of Eminent Ladies); it was published that year.
Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Editor Perry, Ruth, Wayne State University Press, 1985.
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Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.
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1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...

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1 April 1947

Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu , that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah (who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).
Vedantam, Shankar. “Lost recording of Gandhi uncovered”. Guardian Weekly, 15 Aug. 2008, p. 30.
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16 March 1649: Jean de Brebeuf was captured by Iroquois...

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16 March 1649

Jean de Brebeuf was captured by Iroquois and murdered at St-Ignace, Huronia (in what would become Ontario, Canada).
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

1979: Lynn Conway (a transgendered US computer...

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1979

Lynn Conway (a transgendered US computer scientist, a woman born as a male) radically simplified microchip design, permitting huge advances in engineering.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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