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April 1792: The Marseillaise was composed in France as...

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April 1792

The Marseillaise was composed in France as a revolutionary song.
Sandock, Mollie. “’I Burn with Contempt for my Foes’: Jane Austen’s Music Collections and Women’s Lives in Regency England”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 2001, pp. 105-17.
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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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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.

3 March 1770: Hissing from supporters of John Wilkes prevented...

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3 March 1770

Hissing from supporters of John Wilkes prevented the opening performance of a pro-government play, Word to the Wise by Hugh Kelly at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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1910: Havelock Ellis's sixth volume of the series...

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1910

Havelock Ellis 's sixth volume of the series Studies in the Psychology of Sex was the earliest to be published in Britain.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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15 October 1886: Sigmund Freud presented a paper to the Viennese...

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15 October 1886

Sigmund Freud presented a paper to the Viennese Society of Physicians called On Male Hysteria and established his private practice for the treatment of hysterics in Vienna.
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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9 April 1851: Nathaniel Hawthorne published in Boston The...

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9 April 1851

Nathaniel Hawthorne published in BostonThe House of the Seven Gables, a novel exploring Puritan guilt.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Clark, C. E. Frazer. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1290: King Edward I expelled all remaining Jews...

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1290

King Edward I expelled all remaining Jews from England. According to Michelene Wandor 's The Music of the Prophets, they were to be gone by All Saints' Day, November the first.
Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
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Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications, 2006.
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6 September 1701: The Norwich Post, probably England's first...

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6 September 1701

The Norwich Post, probably England's first provincial newspaper, was launched.
Black, Jeremy. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. Croom Helm, 1987.
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Cranfield, Geoffrey Alan. The Development of the Provincial Newspaper, 1700-1760. Clarendon, 1962.
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Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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The date has been approximated by counting back from first surviving (weekly) issue: no. 348, 1 May 1708.

1938: Soviet pilot Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova...

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1938

Soviet pilot Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova and two women companions made international fame when they broke the women's long-distance world flying record in their aeroplane, the Motherland.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1902: The Society for the State Registration of...

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1902

The Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses was founded with women's activist Louisa Stevenson as president, former Matrons' Council president Isla Stewart as vice-president, and former Royal British Nurses' Association president Ethel Gordon Fenwick

Hannah Lynch

HL was a journalist, novelist, and translator from the 1880s until her death in 1904. She became notorious for her anonymous, fictionalized, early memoir Autobiography of a Child. As an Irish nationalist living in...

20 May 1549: A parliamentary Act of Uniformity prescribed...

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20 May 1549

A parliamentary Act of Uniformity prescribed use of the first Book of Common Prayer in parish churches; every church had to possess a copy.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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Smyth, Adam. “23153.8; 19897.7; 15635”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2015, pp. 37-9.
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6 June 1961: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, died in Z...

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6 June 1961

Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist, died in Zurich.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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10 July 1919: The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender...

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10 July 1919

The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender (a Scottish baronet's daughter) and named after William Drummond of Hawthornden, was first awarded, for the best work of imaginative literature
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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of the year.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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1823: Working with the Society for the Improvement...

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1823

Working with the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline , Robert Peel aided the passage of the Gaol Act.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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19 September 1970: Inspired by a blues festival held at the...

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19 September 1970

Inspired by a blues festival held at the showground of the annual Bath and West agricultural show, Michael Eavis held a festival at his farm at Glastonbury in Somerset.
Glastonbury Festival: Brief History. http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/about_us.aspx?id=38.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney , though American, is best known as a Paris salonnière. She specialized in memoirs and pensées, though she also produced poetry, drama, novels, essays, and dialogues. Writing primarily in French but also...
Natalie Clifford Barney Half-length painting of Natalie Clifford Barney by her mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1896. She faces the viewer directly: blonde, blue-eyed, wearing a black dress, fur cape, and blue velvet hat with a tall feather. Her hair, divided in the centre, is roughly brushed back.

1874: Sunday Closing activists lobbied strenuously...

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1874

Sunday Closing activists lobbied strenuously to have their concerns reflected in a Licensing Amendment bill then under debate.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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10 December 1945: Gabriela Mistral's powerfully evocative lyric...

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10 December 1945

Gabriela Mistral 's powerfully evocative lyric poetry earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

22 October 1786: The Royal Society heard a paper on the practice...

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22 October 1786

The Royal Society heard a paper on the practice of measuring babies' birthweights: for the first time in Britain, at a Dublin Lying-in Hospital.
Williams, Carolyn. “The Absurdity of the Ideas of Obstetric Writers: Birth Weight in A Modest ProposalThe Scriblerian, Vol.
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, No. 2, Department of English, Temple University, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 121-3.
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15 November 1910: Parliament reconvened and the Government...

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15 November 1910

Parliament reconvened and the Government refused to guarantee that they would take up consideration of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) in that parliamentary session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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29 April 1945: German troops in Italy surrendered....

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29 April 1945

German troops in Italy surrendered.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1898: Marie Sklodoska Curie, working on her doctoral...

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1898

Marie Sklodoska Curie , working on her doctoral dissertation, discovered the radioactive effects of radium and polonium.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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6 December 1947: The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously,...

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6 December 1947

The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously, if belatedly, voted to admit women for the first time as full members.
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
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McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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“Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge.

1958: The Ford Motor Company introduced the Ed...

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1958

The Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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