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Before May 1851: The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite...

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Before May 1851

The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite works for its annual exhibition (which opened on 5 May), despite the volley of criticism which had followed the Brotherhood's previous public displays.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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6 April 1847: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance...

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6 April 1847

Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance of Rossini 's Semiramide) as The Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden .
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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“AbouttheHouse: History”. Royal Opera House.

1890: Margaret Bright Lucas, an influential and...

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1890

Margaret Bright Lucas , an influential and active campaigner for women's rights, died.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. “’Changes Are Dangerous’: Women and Temperance in Victorian England”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 193-15.
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1850: From this date, female visitors gained ever...

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1850

From this date, female visitors gained ever greater access to workhouses.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1874: The Association of Headmistresses was founded...

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1874

The Association of Headmistresses was founded by Frances Mary Buss and Dorothea Beale .
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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October 1905: The penny-weekly journal Leisure Hour ceased...

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October 1905

The penny-weekly journal Leisure Hour ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1993: The National Lottery was established in Britain,...

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1993

The National Lottery was established in Britain, with tickets accessibly priced and profits going to good causes.
McKibbin, Ross. “Perhaps a Merlot”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 16-17.
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1783: The Godolphin School, for girls of the higher...

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1783

The Godolphin School , for girls of the higher classes, was opened.
Miller, Peter J. The Education of the English Lady, 1770-1820. University of Alberta, 1969.
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3 October 1956: The first Soviet ballet company to visit...

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3 October 1956

The first Soviet ballet company to visit Britain, the Bolshoi , performed Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1913: Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman...

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1913

Caroline Spurgeon became the first woman professor in Britain when she was named Professor of English Literature at Bedford College .
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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Duncan-Jones, Katherine. “Why Have So Few Women Written on Shakespeare?”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Conference, London, 28 June 2002.

Naomi Royde-Smith

NRS 'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies...

1977: Melissa Murray won the Gregory Poetry Award...

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1977

Melissa Murray won the Gregory Poetry Award for The Falling Sickness.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1841-1845: A further uprising in Italy against the Austrians...

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1841-1845

A further uprising in Italy against the Austrians failed.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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20 November 1925: Queen Alexandra died of a heart attack. Though...

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20 November 1925

Queen Alexandra died of a heart attack. Though famous chiefly for her beauty, and often dismissed by historians as a nonentity, she left a legacy of organizations established by her charity work.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...

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1926

The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
Menand, Louis. “Slips of the Tongue”. New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2001, pp. 112-16.
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1857: J. F. Hope of London published the two volumes...

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1857

J. F. Hope of London published the two volumes of Mrs Robert Cartwright's third novel, The Royal Sisters; or Pictures of a Court.
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.

1941: Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr won...

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1941

Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr won the Governor General's Award for Klee Wyck, a book of twenty-one fragments of autobiography describing her sketching trips to Native villages on the British Columbia coast.
Todkill, Anne Marie. “A Canadian original”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 10-11, July 2004, pp. 1-4.
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August 1946: The Women's Timber Corps disbanded....

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August 1946

The Women's Timber Corps disbanded.
Twinch, Carol. Women on the Land: Their Story During Two World Wars. Lutterworth, 1990.
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1404-1405: Owain Glyndŵr (Owen Glendower) held parliaments...

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1404-1405

Owain Glyndŵr (Owen Glendower ) held parliaments and planned for Welsh independence.
Griffiths, Ralph Alan. “The Later Middle Ages (1290-1485)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 166-22.
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4 June 1838: The first section of the Great Western Railway,...

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4 June 1838

The first section of the Great Western Railway , from London to Bristol, opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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Late 1843: Sir Henry Cole, tired of writing out Christmas...

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Late 1843

Sir Henry Cole , tired of writing out Christmas greetings for all his friends, commissioned John Callcott Horsley to design the first pictorial Christmas card.
“Christmas Gallery”. Postcard & Greeting Card Museum.

1790: In this year only, high or petty treason...

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1790

In this year only, high or petty treason when committed by women became no longer punishable by burning at the stake.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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1977: A Women's History/Oral History conference...

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1977

A Women's History/Oral History conference was held at Colchester.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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1881: Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published The...

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1881

Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published The Brothers Karamazov.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1859: The Midnight Meeting Movement provided late...

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1859

The Midnight Meeting Movement provided late night gospel services to prostitutes in London.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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