The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies sponsored a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, attended by over 10,000 people, in support of the impending second reading of the Conciliation Bill.

The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.

The Irish Catholic Women's Suffrage Association , a non-militant, non-partisan group, was formed in Dublin.

Women achieved suffrage in the Madras Presidency.

Marion Wallace Dunlop started the first suffrage hunger-strike after being arrested for stencilling graffitti on the wall of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons; she was released after four days.

A motion for women's suffrage was passed by the New Zealand legislature, giving the vote to all, including Maori, women. Though New Zealand was still part of the British Empire, it ranks as the first country in the world where women could vote.

The Men's Committee for Opposing Female Suffrage was formed.

Female suffrage was exercised in federal elections in Australia.

The House of Commons debated a women's suffrage bill, introduced by Conservative member Sir Albert Rollit , which would have allowed women with local government franchise to vote in parliamentary elections, but the bill failed to win a majority.

Jessie Craigen of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association was a major speaker at the Trade Union Congress in Dublin.

A Reform meeting in favour of universal suffrage, involving 30,000 men and women, was held at Clayknowes, the east side of Glasgow.

The Free Church Suffrage Times began publication.

The Church League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.

Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the Fortnightly Review to counter Mary Augusta Ward 's Appeal Against Female Suffrage in the previous month's Nineteenth Century.

A four-day Suffrage Conference was organized by the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation in Dublin.

Gertrude Jennings 's one-act suffrage playA Woman's Influence was performed at the Votes for Women Exhibition at the Prince's Skating Rink in Knightsbridge.

The Scottish Women's Suffrage Society met for the first time in Edinburgh.

Regional suffrage committees formed in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Manchester.

The Church League for Women's Suffrage , later the League of the Church Militant , was formed by the Rev. Claude Hinscliff and his wife to lobby for suffrage and promote the deep religious significance of the woman's movement.

The regional suffrage committees combined to form the National Society for Women's Suffrage .

The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended monthly publication in London.

Both the National Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central and East of England Society for Women's Suffrage ceased publication of their annual papers.

In France, universal manhood suffrage enabled a politically inexperienced peasantry to elect a minority of monarchists, but sent a large majority of conservatives to Paris.

The Irish Citizen, a suffrage newspaper jointly edited by Francis Sheehy Skeffington and James Cousins , began weekly publication in London.