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7 May 1915: The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a...

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7 May 1915

The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
167, 186
Reynolds, David. “Too Proud to Fight”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2002, pp. 29-31.
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Christmas Day 1978: Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia after...

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Christmas Day 1978

Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia after years of worsening relations with its totalitarian government under Pol Pot .
“1979: China invades Vietnam”. BBC News: On This Day, 17 Feb. 1979.

Between December 1981 and summer 1985: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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Between December 1981 and summer 1985

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked the advance of AIDS in that country, from 152 cases in late 1981 to over 12,000 cases in mid 1985.
Crewe, Tom. “Here was a plague”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 18, 27 Sept. 2018, pp. 7-16.

4 May 1870: Jacob Bright introduced an unsuccessful women's...

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4 May 1870

Jacob Bright introduced an unsuccessful women's suffrage bill in the House of Commons ; it was the first time female enfranchisement was considered as an issue unto itself.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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31 August 1861: With the founding of the first Sunday Closing...

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31 August 1861

With the founding of the first Sunday Closing Association in Hull, Yorkshire, temperance activists were united with religious reformers in an unprecedented way.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1911: The collection known as the King's Music...

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1911

The collection known as the King's Music Library was given on permanent loan to the British Museum by King George V .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Christina Fraser-Tytler

CFT was a Scottish-born novelist and poet with a taste for melodramatic plots and working-class protagonists. In the later decades of the nineteenth century, she published at least six novels, three poetry volumes, a collection...

23-4 October 1850: The first National Woman's Rights Convention...

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23-4 October 1850

The first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in the USA, at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983.
55-57, 302

1963: Gerda Lerner, at the New School in New York,...

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1963

Gerda Lerner , at the New School in New York, proposed to teach a course in women's history; the course did not run, because than fewer than ten students registered.
Olin, Jessica. “Don’t sit around and giggle”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 38-9.
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1881: Harvard Observatory began employing women...

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1881

Harvard Observatory began employing women to analyze photographs of star fields.
Powell, Jennifer H. “Reaching for the Stars”. The Harvard University Gazette, 19 Mar. 1998.

1882: The Lyceum company set out on the first international...

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1882

The Lyceum company set out on the first international theatre tour of North America.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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27 February 1868: Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative, became...

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27 February 1868

Benjamin Disraeli , a Conservative , became Prime Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Derby .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...

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13 June 1842

Queen Victoria first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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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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1850: The first midnight mission for the reclamation...

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1850

The first midnight mission for the reclamation of prostitutes was held, in a Waterloo Road schoolroom, London.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1 January 1830: J. W. Croker for the first time used the...

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1 January 1830

J. W. Croker for the first time used the word Conservative to refer to the party which for a century and half had been called Tory.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
under Liberal
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
under Conservative

1843: British West Africa separated from Sierra...

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1843

British West Africa separated from Sierra Leone and became an independent Crown Colony.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 650

January 1812: The Theatre Royal first opened in Bridgetown,...

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January 1812

The Theatre Royal first opened in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol.
57
, 2011, pp. 98-112.
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2 August 1858: The Imperial Act provided British Columbia,...

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2 August 1858

The Imperial Act provided British Columbia, no longer under the jurisdiction of the Hudson Bay Company , with its own government.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 470
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1799: Lady Charlotte Murray published The British...

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1799

Lady Charlotte Murray published The British Garden: a Catalogue of Plants Indigenous to the British Isles, a pricey, intelligent, and well-reviewed explanatory catalogue of plants both indigenous and introduced, with instructions for identification.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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29 October-13 November 1929: The Dow Jones Industrial Index plummeted...

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29 October-13 November 1929

The Dow Jones Industrial Index plummeted down as investors made a run on the New York stock exchange, till it crashed: more than thirty billion US dollars were lost on Wall Street.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

1970-1975: The Boston Women's Health Book Collective's...

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1970-1975

The Boston Women's Health Book Collective 's Our Bodies, Ourselves earned the collective over $500,000 in royalties with sales of more than one million copies.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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1 February 1692: The London Mercury (by no means the only...

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1 February 1692

The London Mercury (by no means the only journal to use this title at different times) began publication, with an appeal to John Dunton 's Athenian Mercury and to the fair Sex, of what Degree...

7 January 2010: Nadifa Mohamed (Somali-born in 1961 and now...

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7 January 2010

Nadifa Mohamed (Somali-born in 1961 and now a British writer) published her first novel, Black Mamba Boy.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

14 February 1946: The Bank of England was nationalised....

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14 February 1946

The Bank of England was nationalised.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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17 February 1959: Australian soprano Joan Sutherland sang Lucia...

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17 February 1959

Australian soprano Joan Sutherland sang Lucia in the Franco Zeffirelli version of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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