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29 June 1767: The Revenue Act imposed new and severe duties...

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29 June 1767

The Revenue Act imposed new and severe duties on the British trade with America.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
335, 370
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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16 April 1856: The Governor of British Columbia announced...

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16 April 1856

The Governor of British Columbia announced the discovery of gold and proclaimed all gold the property of the Crown.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 469

December 1859: All government support was withdrawn from...

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December 1859

All government support was withdrawn from the Female School of Art .
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
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1912: The magazine Myra's Journal of Dress and...

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1912

The magazine Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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1903: Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was identified...

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1903

Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon ) was identified as the probable source of about 1,300 cases of typhoid fever that occurred in New York.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe

ESR wrote witty, topical, satirical poetry during the 1690s, followed later in life by letters, essays, fiction (often epistolary), and a wide range of poetic modes, often though not invariably with a moral or religious...
Elizabeth Singer Rowe Transcription by Elizabeth Carter of a poem by Elizabeth Rowe, on paper surrounded by a deep blue background. "To Lady Brooke" reads in part: "your Looks appear / Artless as Virtue undisguised & clear / Bright as your sparkling Wit your lovely Eyes / Like that they please . . . .”

11 May 1960: The US FDA approved the first birth control...

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11 May 1960

The US FDA approved the first birth control pill, Searle 's Enovid.
“The Pill: Timeline: 1951-1990”. PBS: The Pill: American Experience.

July 1978: Dulcie Gray won the Times Educational Supplement...

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July 1978

Dulcie Gray won the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award for her book on butterfly conservation, Butterflies on My Mind: Their Life and Conservation in Britain Today, with illustrations by Brian Hargreaves and a...

7 May 1824: Beethoven, despite his complete deafness,...

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7 May 1824

Beethoven , despite his complete deafness, conducted the first performance of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna; it was his final grand-scale work.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

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/.

June 1848: Serbs in southern Hungary revolted against...

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June 1848

Serbs in southern Hungary revolted against the new Hungarian government.
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
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1641: Judicial torture, hitherto commonly exercised,...

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1641

Judicial torture, hitherto commonly exercised, as a Crown prerogative, in state trials in England, was virtually banned by statute.
Sedley, Stephen. “Wringing out the Fault”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 27-31.
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1885: Nina Kennard contributed a volume on the...

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1885

Nina Kennard contributed a volume on the famous actress Rachel (real name Elisa Félix) to the Eminent Women Series.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1857: Ellen Ranyard's employment of Bible-Women...

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1857

Ellen Ranyard 's employment of Bible-Women in charitable work was the first instance of paid social work.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1 May 1749: Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by...

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1 May 1749

Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by appearing at a masquerade in the character of Iphigenia, in a dress so transparent that she was as good as naked.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
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18 July 1874: The weekly Ladies' Own Journal and Miscellany...

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18 July 1874

The weekly Ladies' Own Journal and Miscellany ceased publication.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1894: The British Education Department introduced...

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1894

The BritishEducation Department introduced the principle of limiting class size to sixty for elementary schools receiving grants.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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1867: The first International Congress of Archaeology...

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1867

The first International Congress of Archaeology and Anthropology was held in Paris.
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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Ann Jebb

During the last quarter of the eighteenth century AJ was an intellectual journalist and controversialist, publishing on both theological and political topics. Most of her printed writing is epistolary, and she also wrote letters then...

May 1718: The first newspaper in the Caribbean, the...

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May 1718

The first newspaper in the Caribbean, the Weekly Jamaica Courant, began publication.
Overton, Bill, editor. A Letter to My Love. University of Delaware Press, 2001.
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Woodard, Colin. Republic of Pirates Blog. 8 Dec. 2007, http://republicofpirates.net/blog/2007/12/post.html.

January 1980: Seven feminists founded Sheba Publishing...

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January 1980

Seven feminists founded Sheba Publishing in London.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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By 2 September 1837: W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were,...

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By 2 September 1837

W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, extolling the virtues of the self-employed lunatic and a hierarchy of industry within the asylum.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
514 (1837): 636

Early 1880s: James Hack Tuke, a Quaker banker, aided the...

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Early 1880s

James Hack Tuke , a Quaker banker, aided the emigration of 10,000 persons from the west of Ireland; the cost of the programme was split with the state.
Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801-1921. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
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March 1872: The Dundee and District Domestic Servants...

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March 1872

The Dundee and District Domestic Servants Association was formed in Dundee, Scotland.
Gordon, Eleanor. Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland 1850-1914. Clarendon, 1991, http://University of Toronto (Robarts).
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1819: A Royal Navy squadron became active off West...

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1819

A Royal Navy squadron became active off West Africa, fighting the continuance of the slave trade, which had been abolished on 1 May 1807.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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