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30 March 1867: Russia sold its territory of Alaska to the...

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30 March 1867

Russia sold its territory of Alaska to the United States for a price of seven million dollars, which many American newspapers regarded as far too much to pay for it.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 March 2011

19 April 1916: The province of Alberta in Canada granted...

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19 April 1916

The province of Alberta in Canada granted women the vote with the passing of the Equal Suffrage Bill, two years before all Canadian women gained the right to vote in federal elections (24 May 1918).

Early November 1959: The first significant stretch of motorway...

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Early November 1959

The first significant stretch of motorway in Britain was opened: the M1, running northwards from London, successor to the Great North Road.
Brown, Derek. “Week in Britain: Fast lane to history”. Guardian Weekly, 13 Nov. 2009, p. 14.
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1817: Britain signed treaties with Spain and Portugal...

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1817

Britain signed treaties with Spain and Portugal which made slave-trading illegal (Portugal retained the right to trade in slaves south of the equator, though not north of it) and gave British ships the right of...

1917: John Lane published The Candid Courtship,...

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1917

John Lane published The Candid Courtship, a feminist novel by Madge Mears .
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.

July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...

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July 1928

Jennie Lee , a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons as its youngest member in a by-election in February...

21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

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21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

13 April 1964: A trial opened in London after Alexander...

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13 April 1964

A trial opened in London after Alexander Dering (formerly Dehring), a doctor of Polish birth who had worked in Auschwitz, brought libel charges against US writer Leon Uris over a paragraph in his novel Exodus...

1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...

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1495

In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola destroyed texts by Ovid , Dante , Boccaccio and others.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Editorial Materials”. Casa Guidi Windows, edited by Julia Markus, Browning Institute, 1977, p. Various pages.
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1868: Using a donated building, Ellen Ranyard began...

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1868

Using a donated building, Ellen Ranyard began training poor women to become home care nurses; in the programme's inaugural year, 5,000 visits were made to 99 patients.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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8 January 1995: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (who has typically issued...

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8 January 1995

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (who has typically issued her books of poetry in Irish first, before English translations appeared by others) explained her linguistic policy in the New York Times Book Review.
Romanets, Maryana. “Cartographers of Desire: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Versus the Love Canon in Irish Poetry”. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, Vol.
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, June–Sept. 2002, pp. 321-42.
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3 September 1783: The signing, at Versailles, of the Treaty...

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3 September 1783

The signing, at Versailles, of the Treaty of Paris brought to an end the American War of Independence.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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18 June 1870: The Scottish Society of Reparation (Community...

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18 June 1870

The Scottish Society of Reparation (Community of St Mary and St John) was founded in Aberdeen.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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1914: My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story,...

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1914

My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story, a novel from Helen Hamilton that is based on an actual woman's account of her marriage, appeared with an introduction by John Galsworthy .
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.

10 December 1984: Mikhail Gorbachev, at this point second in...

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10 December 1984

Mikhail Gorbachev , at this point second in command in the Soviet Union, enunciated his doctrine of glasnost, or openness.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

16 August 1972: Five years after May Hobbs began a strike...

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16 August 1972

Five years after May Hobbs began a strike of night cleaners at the Ministry of Defence (supported by the civil servant trade union and others, and by feminist sympathisers), management agreed to the women's demands...

Rosa Nouchette Carey

RNC , writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was the author of about forty very popular novels of domestic life, many of them aimed at girls and young people. Although quite conventional romances...

Later 1778: Ann Wilson published her 1600-line poem Teisa,...

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Later 1778

Ann Wilson published her 1600-line poem Teisa, describing, with moral reflections, the landscape, towns, antiquities, and history around the course of the River Tees.
Keegan, Bridget. “Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Women’s Locodescriptive Poetry: The Case of Ann Wilson’s ’Teisa’”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 17 Mar. 2001.

May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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May 1912

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour candidates in constituencies where a Liberal anti-suffragist was running.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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July 1890 to January 1926: A weekly at first entitled The Gentlewoman:...

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July 1890 to January 1926

A weekly at first entitled The Gentlewoman: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Gentlewomen was published in London; at the end of its run it was called Gentlewoman and Modern Life.
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.
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.

October 1994: The Descent of the Child: Human Evolution...

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October 1994

The Descent of the Child: Human Evolution From a New Perspective, a work by Elaine Morgan , was published with Souvenir Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

1843: London and Dover were connected by rail....

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1843

London and Dover were connected by rail.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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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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By December 1751: The first volume of Theory and Practice of...

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By December 1751

The first volume of Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Scottish obstetrician William Smellie was published (written with help from Tobias Smollett ).
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...

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3 November 1956

Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC television and ITV as well as the BBC radio service at home and...

Sir Thomas Malory