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16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...

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16 November 1925-13 March 1926

Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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17 March 1722: Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague...

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17 March 1722

Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year (set during the plague which began in April 1665).
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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8 April 1794: Joseph Priestley emigrated to the USA to...

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8 April 1794

Joseph Priestley emigrated to the USA to escape persecution for his political and religious opinions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
64 (1794): 320, 495, 850
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 219-20

Elizabeth Melvill

EM was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...

1848: The monthly penny magazine Mother's Friend...

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1848

The monthly penny magazine Mother's Friend began publication in London.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Charlotte Charke

All CC 's works were topical. All except some rather feeble fictions centre on the theatre or on herself; the best-known is her autobiography, 1755. Several of her plays have not survived. Interest in her...
Charlotte Charke A painting by Willliam Jones, 1740, of Charlotte Charke playing a "breeches role", the male lead the one-act opera "Damon and Phillida" by her father, Colley Cibber. She is dressed in a pink (men's) jacket and breeches, white stockings, and men's shoes adorned with a buckle. The scene shows Damon reconciled with Phillida (to the left, dressed in blue) with two frustrated, mercenary suitors in the background. Tate Gallery.

1913: Benefits were introduced in Britain, payable...

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1913

Benefits were introduced in Britain, payable to workers for sickness, unemployment, or maternity leave.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Larsen, Eirinn, and Eirinn Larsen. “Feminist Scholars Define Maternalism and Maternalist Policy”. Gender and the Welfare State, University of Bergen, 1 Mar.–31 May 1996.

Between 26 February and 1 July 1920: During the Parliamentary sitting, the Canadian...

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Between 26 February and 1 July 1920

During the Parliamentary sitting, the Canadian Indian Act was amended to provide for enfranchisement of Native persons and attendance of children at schools.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 504

1662: An Act of Settlement confirmed that poor...

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1662

An Act of Settlement confirmed that poor relief could be received only in one's parish of settlement (that is, in one's birthplace).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140
Rose, Michael E. The English Poor Law 1780-1930. David and Charles, 1971.
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Staves, Susan, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Act of Settlement and Poor Law to Isobel Grundy. 27 Mar. 1999.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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25 September-20 November 1819: The Briton, a radical weekly, began a month...

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25 September-20 November 1819

The Briton, a radical weekly, began a month after the Peterloo Massacre and appeared each Saturday for two months.
Keen, Paul, and Kevin Gilmartin, editors. The Popular Radical Press in Britain 1817-1821. Pickering and Chatto, 2003, 6 vols.

23 March 1791: Etta Palm d'Aelders founded the Paris women's...

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23 March 1791

Etta Palm d'Aelders founded the Paris women's political club called the Société Patriotique et Bienfaisance des Amies de la Vérité.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
103, 369

December 1820: The Constitutional Association (at the opposite...

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December 1820

The Constitutional Association (at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the various Constitutional Societies ) was formed in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, with the aim of silencing...

By mid-October 1930: W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published...

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By mid-October 1930

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published 1066 and All That, which was subtitled A memorable history of England: comprising, all the parts you can remember.
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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(16 October 1930): 836

September 1876: Eva Lückes entered Middlesex Hospital as...

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September 1876

Eva Lückes entered Middlesex Hospital as a paying probationer; she became a certified nurse less than two years later.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...

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1980

Shirley Gee 's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC 's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1826: Duty was placed on opium imports at the rate...

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1826

Duty was placed on opium imports at the rate of nine shillings per pound; this rate decreased over the next decades.
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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1 April 1983: Eighty thousand people (according to figures...

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1 April 1983

Eighty thousand people (according to figures put out by CND) linked hands in a 14-mile chain joining Greenham Common air-force base to Burghfield air-force base by way of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Diary”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 7, 5 Apr. 2018, pp. 42-3.
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23 August 1600: William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about...

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23 August 1600

William Shakespeare 's comedy Much Ado about Nothing, probably written between summer 1598 and spring 1599, was licensed with the Stationers' Company ; it was printed this year.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...

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June 1911

Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare 's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players .
Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 3/4, pp. 527-42.
534

June 12 1859: The Whig Party reformed under the leadership...

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June 12 1859

The Whig Party reformed under the leadership of Lord Palmerston , as the Liberal Party .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
857

20 November 1839: Missionary John Williams was clubbed to death...

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20 November 1839

Missionary John Williams was clubbed to death by cannibal islanders of Erromanga in the New Hebrides; missions on many of the islands were fraught with danger.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Erromanga

February 1989: Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan:...

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February 1989

Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan: the USA and UK (which had trained Afghan fighters) hailed a victory for freedom over Communism; the Mujahidin a victory for Islam over atheistic powers.
Hardy, Roger. “How China Colluded with the West in the Rise of Osama Bin Laden”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 26-7.
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Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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1864: The Reform League, an organization pressing...

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1864

The Reform League , an organization pressing for the extension of the vote to working class men, and for the secret ballot, was founded in London.
Wright, D. G. Democracy and Reform: 1815-1885. Longmans, 1970.
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Sheppard, Francis Henry Wollaston. London, 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen. Secker and Warburg, 1971.
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Moore, David Cresap. The Politics of Deference: A Study of the Mid-Nineteenth Century English Political System. Harvester Press, 1976.
370
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
660

1889: Harrods (already a leading retail outlet)...

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1889

Harrods (already a leading retail outlet) passed from family ownership to become a Limited Liability Company, thus beginning a trend which swept up most of the great department stores.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
234, 240-1

June 1793: Baptist pastor William Carey and his family...

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June 1793

Baptist pastor William Carey and his family set sail for India; Carey was the first English-speaking missionary in the sub-continent.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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