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1931: Woman Clerk: the Organ of the Association...

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1931

Woman Clerk: the Organ of the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries ceased publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
602

1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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1838

Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria 's Scottish ancestry.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.

11 February 1939: Austrian physicists Lisa Meitner and Otto...

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11 February 1939

Austrian physicists Lisa Meitner and Otto Frisch , her nephew, published a paper in Nature describing nuclear fission and coining the term.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Rayner-Canham, Marlene F., and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. A Devotion to their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity. McGill-Queens University Press, 1997.
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End of May 1942: Beryl Markham, horsewoman and aviator, published...

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End of May 1942

Beryl Markham , horsewoman and aviator, published her memoir of her life in Africa, West with the Night, a work often compared with Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) .
Lovell, Mary S. Straight On Till Morning. Hutchinson, 1987.
3, 234-6, 241

18 July 1938: R. vs. Bourne challenged the illegality of...

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18 July 1938

R. vs. Bourne challenged the illegality of abortion; until this challenge, there had been no legal definition of the circumstances in which a miscarriage could be deliberately and lawfully procured.
Dickens, Bernard M. Abortion and the Law. MacGibbon and Kee, 1966.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
195
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
499
Bourne was...

After 4 August 1914: The Women's Freedom League formed the Women's...

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After 4 August 1914

The Women's Freedom League formed the Women's Suffrage National Aid Corps to assist women and children during wartime.
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
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7 June 1840: Frederick William IV became King of Prussia...

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7 June 1840

Frederick William IV became King of Prussia upon the death of Frederick William III .
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
171, 256
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

December 1964: The Greater London Council began to offer...

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December 1964

The Greater London Council began to offer family planning advice to unmarried people.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
269

11 May 1949: Siam changed its name to Thailand....

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11 May 1949

Siam changed its name to Thailand.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
252
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Hildegarde of Bingen

Hildegarde of Bingen was a wide-ranging medieval author. She wrote medical texts, a liturgical play, poetry, songs, biblical commentaries, and hagiographies. Her collected correspondence includes letters to many influential people of her time as well...
Hildegarde of Bingen Photograph of an illumination in a copy of Hildegarde of Bingen's major work "Liber Scivias". It shows the author in the act of composing. Seated under an archway, with her feet resting on a stool, she wears a black robe and head covering. Tongues of fire reach down from heaven to touch her head. She appears to be writing on a wax tablet, but the monk who seems agog to hear her is also said to be her scribe.

May 1981: A serial killer of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe,...

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May 1981

A serial killer of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe, whom the media called the Yorkshire Ripper, was found guilty on thirteen charges.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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3 October 1906: Britain's new battleship, the Dreadnought,...

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3 October 1906

Britain's new battleship, the Dreadnought, began sea trials.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
165

1678: Roger L'Estrange published the first English...

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1678

Roger L'Estrange published the first English translation (out of ten before 1740) of G. J. Guilleragues ' Portuguese Letters (often called Letters of a Portuguese Nun), which in French dated from 1669.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist. Blackwell, 1986.
23 and n60

1808: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Faust:...

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1808

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Faust: Part One; it followed his Faust: A Fragment, 1790.
Wood, Michael. “The Man without Predicates”. London Review of Books, 20 July 2000, pp. 11-13.
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January 1909: The National Association for the Advancement...

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January 1909

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in New York by Mary White Ovington , Leonara O'Reilly , and Henry Moscowitz .
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
383

Archibald Alison

1884: The Ladies Lavatory Company was founded this...

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1884

The Ladies Lavatory Company was founded this year and opened its first toilet establishment at Oxford Circus, London.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
231

18 December 1914: The British protectorate over Egypt was ...

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18 December 1914

The British protectorate over Egypt was proclaimed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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18 January 1788: After sailing for eight months from England,...

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18 January 1788

After sailing for eight months from England, the first convicts landed at Botany Bay in Australia. A European settlement was founded at nearby Sydney Cove on 26 January, which was later commemorated in Australia...

Maria De Fleury

MDF was a Baptist—and anti-Catholic—religious, theological, and political polemicist active during the 1780s and 1790s who wrote with force and imagination, especially in her verse. She published one more private poem, an elegiac ode.

Early June 1919: Escalating anti-black race riots in Newport...

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Early June 1919

Escalating anti-black race riots in Newport and Cardiff culminated in organised attacks on black residents of Cardiff city centre led by gun-wielding Australian soldiers.
Phillips, Mike. “Cardiff race riots, 1919”. The Guardian, 24 July 2006, p. G2: 10.
G2: 10

Late 1588: A series of anonymous anti-episcopal publications...

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Late 1588

A series of anonymous anti-episcopal publications called the Marprelate Tracts provoked new licensing to restrain the press. The controversy dragged on, and one of the authors, John Penry , was hanged on 29 May 1593...

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Stanford, Peter. “How the Catholic Church Differs from Other Denominations”. BBC: Society and Culture: Religion and Ethics: Christianity: Subdivisions: The Catholic Church, pp. 1-3.
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1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...

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1900

The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland .
Kernohan, Robert Deans. Our Church: A Guide to the Kirk of Scotland. Saint Andrew, 1985.
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