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1760: Arthur Guinness opened a brewery in Dubl...

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1760

Arthur Guinness opened a brewery in Dublin.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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By late 1931: Twelve certain members of the Detection Club...

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By late 1931

Twelve certain members of the Detection Club (including Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G. K. Chesterton , Clemence Dane , G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole ) published a collaborative detective novel...

Hannah Webster Foster

HWF published a landmark sentimental novel and a fictional-didactic text at Boston, Massachusetts, in the final decade of the eighteenth century. She also wrote for periodicals.
Hannah Webster Foster Black and white head-and-shoulders reproduction of a portrait of Hannah Webster Foster before 1840. She is wearing a large. stylish hat adorned with ostrich feathers, and a large lacy collar. Her dark hair is in curls.

1658: Aurangzeb seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne,...

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1658

Aurangzeb seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne, becoming Emperor of a territory including most of present-day India and parts of what are now other countries. His near fifty-year rule was less than half over at...

April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...

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April 1817

The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine appeared; founder William Blackwood intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 7-9, 11
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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10 January 1957: Harold Macmillan (Conservative) became Prime...

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10 January 1957

Harold Macmillan (Conservative) became Prime Minister following Eden 's resignation over the Suez crisis (in which Britain, with France and Israel, invaded Egypt).
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 412

November 1854: Tsar Nicholas I of Russia accepted the Four...

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November 1854

Tsar Nicholas I of Russia accepted the Four Points proposed by Austria in the Crimean War.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207, 208

22 June 1921: George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament...

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22 June 1921

George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament with a conciliatory speech as the British government initiated negotiations on the relations between Ireland proper and Ulster (the Six Counties in the North).
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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21 November 1739: Not quite a month after Britain had declared...

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21 November 1739

Not quite a month after Britain had declared war on Spain, Admiral Edward Vernon (who had been allowed to sail months earlier) captured the Spanish stronghold of Porto Bello in Panama.
Wallace, Charles Harrison. “Porto Bello”. Monamy Website.

5 February 1637: At the height of the tulip craze, a single...

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5 February 1637

At the height of the tulip craze, a single bulb sold at auction in Amsterdam for 5,400 guilders.
Julius, Anthony. “Bloom Merchants”. Guardian Weekly, 24 Jan. 1999, p. 29.
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1 March 1865: The Indo-European telegraph opened....

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1 March 1865

The Indo-European telegraph opened.
Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 1981.
158-60
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 824
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
902

1873: After John Camden Hotten's death, his publications...

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1873

After John Camden Hotten 's death, his publications manager Andrew Chatto bought the firm, and in partnership with poet W. E. Windus formed Chatto and Windus .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 111

1898: The Guild of Women Binders held its first...

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1898

The Guild of Women Binders held its first exhibition in London.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Mary Savage

MS was a later eighteenth-century poet in the Augustan tradition, who says she also wrote a great deal of prose.

1810: Alexander Chalmers published an influential...

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1810

Alexander Chalmers published an influential anthology, Works of the British Poets, in 21 volumes.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
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Anne Docwra

As an elderly woman in the late seventeenth century, AD published at least seven polemical tracts, most of them defending the Quakers. Her work shows her to have been a leader of local public opinion...

Mary Masters

MM was a self-taught poet, probably born at the end of the seventeenth century, who wrote from inclination and published because she needed the money. Her feminist opinions (expressed mainly in letters) are those current...
Mary Masters A photograph of four lines of a poem by Mary Masters, written in an early, unidentified hand, beginning: "Tis religion that can give / S[w]eetest pleasure while we Live . . . ."

By 2 August 1856: Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel,...

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By 2 August 1856

Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by George Eliot in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...

10 September 1963: American Express for the first time extended...

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10 September 1963

American Express for the first time extended its credit card coverage to Britain, where till then it had been restricted to those who could pay their bills in US dollars.
“11 September 1963, US credit cards for Britain”. Guardian Weekly, 11 Sept. 2009.

16 April 1859: French historian and sociologist Alexis de...

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16 April 1859

French historian and sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville died of tuberculosis.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1968: Welfare State International (originally Welfare...

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1968

Welfare State International (originally Welfare State) was founded by a group of freelance artists including John Fox , Sue Gill , and Roger Coleman , on the principle of universal art like universal health care or education.
Welfare State International. http://www.welfare-state.org/index.htm.

6 September 1839: The National Convention of Chartists was...

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6 September 1839

The National Convention of Chartists was dissolved.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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24 July 1874: The British West African colonies (Gambia,...

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24 July 1874

The British West African colonies (Gambia, Gold Coast, Nigeria—then known as Lagos—and Sierra Leone) were separated.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 707
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
841

26 May 1840: The Westminster Review, a new or restored...

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26 May 1840

The Westminster Review, a new or restored incarnation of the London and Westminster Review, first appeared, following on the resignation of John Stuart Mill .
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 540-1

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...