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July 1770: A Paris newspaper advertised the new invention...

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July 1770

A Paris newspaper advertised the new invention of steel pens as flexible as goose quills.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
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Dorothea Du Bois

DDB 's traumatic family romance made her a writer with an obsession. Her father's guilt and her mother's victimhood recur throughout her works: poems, plays, novel, legal statement—everything but her edited anthology. But she is...
Dorothea Du Bois Title-page of vol.1 Dorothea Du Bois's novel "Theodora",. 1770.

July-October 1850: A shilling quarterly for women entitled The...

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July-October 1850

A shilling quarterly for women entitled The Christian Lady's Library: A Quarterly Journal of Religious and Moral Instruction began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1927: Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall published another...

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1927

Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall published another works on social propriety, which she called Questionable Antics.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

September 1862: The Prussian government called in the conservative...

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September 1862

The Prussian government called in the conservative Otto von Bismarck —then Prussian Ambassador at Paris—as prime minister.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Sheehan, James J. “The German States and the European Revolution”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 246-79.
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28 February 1883: A protest meeting by British residents at...

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28 February 1883

A protest meeting by British residents at Calcutta was held against Ilbert 's Criminal Procedure Amendment bill.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1: 825
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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14 October 1947: Captain Charles E. Yeager, flying a Bell...

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14 October 1947

Captain Charles E. Yeager , flying a Bell X-1, became the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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After March 1866: On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist...

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After March 1866

On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist John Conolly , his son-in-law and leading Darwinist psychiatrist Henry Maudsley wrote a scathing official memoir.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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6 May 1791: The Canada Act mediated between English and...

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6 May 1791

The Canada Act mediated between English and French Canadians and gave the country's present name its first general currency.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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23 July 1920: British East Africa, renamed Kenya, became...

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23 July 1920

British East Africa, renamed Kenya, became a Crown Colony.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 658
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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October 1888: The first national exhibition of the Arts...

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October 1888

The first national exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society was held at the New Gallery in Regent Street, London.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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1781: Alexander Hamilton published a Treatise of...

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1781

Alexander Hamilton published a Treatise of Midwifery, arguing (like others) that this subject was too important to be left to women.
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.

21 August 1871: The Prevention of Crimes Act gave the state...

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21 August 1871

The Prevention of Crimes Act gave the state substantial power to deprive women of their children.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

28 August 1858: Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the...

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28 August 1858

Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the British Medical Journal on a new medical therapy involving morphine injections through a hypodermic syringe.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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14 June 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden presented...

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14 June 1839

Thomas Attwood and John Fielden presented to Parliament a petition for universal suffrage.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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15 April 1912: The Titanic (billed as the world's most advanced...

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15 April 1912

The Titanic (billed as the world's most advanced passenger liner and as unsinkable) sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg.
Brownstone, David, and Irene Franck. Timelines of the Arts and Literature. HarperCollins, 1994.
368

1843: In Man's Power Over Himself to Prevent or...

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1843

In Man's Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity, the Rev. John Barlow asserted that rational exercise
Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.
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of the brain could avert lunacy.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.
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July 1858: Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières...

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July 1858

Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières in the Vosges to plot war against Austria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1879: Electric lighting was introduced at the library...

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1879

Electric lighting was introduced at the library of the British Museum in London; it was accepted slowly by Britain's other libraries.
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
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Cicely Hamilton

CH 's early twentieth-century plays, novels, feminist prose, and travel writing are firmly rooted in her politics, and demonstrate her skill as political satirist. As a propagandist her method is often to take the views...
Cicely Hamilton Black and white photograph of Cicely Hamilton, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a shimmery beaded jacket, and her hair is jaw-length and wavy.

April 1798: With debating clubs under threat from British...

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April 1798

With debating clubs under threat from British government repression, and the brief era of women's debating clubs over, one club debated the topic of women's writing versus women's domesticity.
Escott, Angela. “The School of Eloquence and ’Roasted Square Caps’: oratory and pedantry as fair theatrical game?”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2001, pp. 59-79.
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1785: William Hayley published his Philosophical,...

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1785

William Hayley published his Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids; most women readers agreed with Anna Seward that the book displayed witty, but ungenerous sport of fancy.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols.
I: 147
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 189

January 1918: The Church Militant, an Anglican feminist...

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January 1918

The Church Militant, an Anglican feminist monthly campaigning for the ordination of women, began.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1782: Gilbert's Act stated that only the disabled...

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1782

Gilbert's Act stated that only the disabled should receive poor relief in workhouses; the able-bodied were to find work outside, or be provided with outdoor relief if there was no work.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Rose, Michael E. The English Poor Law 1780-1930. David and Charles, 1971.
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