The Irish Women's Franchise League helped at the soup kitchens during a general strike and lockout; the relief effort brought together women's suffrage, nationalist, and labour organisations.

The Women's National Liberal Association formed when sixty moderate associations withdrew from the Women's Liberal Federation to protest the WLF's new pro-suffrage policy.

Parliament reconvened and the Government refused to guarantee that they would take up consideration of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) in that parliamentary session.

The House of Commons rejected the third petition for universal manhood suffrage.

The Vote, a weekly magazine covering a range of feminist issues including suffrage, ended publication.

Pius IX left Rome for the Kingdom of Naples in late 1848 in the wake of political unrest. Left in power, radicals prepared for the election of a Constituent Assembly by universal suffrage. Although less than half of the electors voted, the Constituent Assembly comprised a large number of radical members, who declared Pius IX deposed and proclaimed a Roman Republic. Mazzini went to Rome after this success, and became one third of a Triumvirate to preserve the Republic. Garibaldi , having returned to Italy to fight in the Piedmontese army against Austria, was subsequently charged with the military defence of the Roman Republic.

Militant suffragettes called a truce, anticipating H. N. Brailsford 's efforts to organise an all-party parliamentary conciliation committee to promote the settlement of the women's suffrage question.

Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the Conciliation Bill on suffrage would receive no more attention that session.

They set fire to Abbeylands, where Ulster Unionists practised military drills; this caused an estimated £20,000 worth of damage. Ulster now became the Irish centre of militant suffrage activity, which until late 1913 had been Dublin.

James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.

The practice of forcible feeding was denounced in a memorial signed by 116 physicians and surgeons. Keir Hardie and others protested against the practice in Parliament; and Henry Nevinson and Henry Noel Brailsford , prominent journalists and suffrage sympathizers, resigned from their posts on the Daily News.

All men who were householders paying rates, and lodgers paying £10 annual rental, could vote in boroughs. All men who leased land worth £12 per annum or owning land valued at £5 per annum could vote in counties. After similar legislation in Scotland the next year the electorate had doubled, making one in three adult males in England, Wales, and Scotland qualified to vote (only one in six could vote in Ireland). Despite several petitions for female suffrage, and debate within and beyond Parliament , no women were enfranchised by the Bill.

The Manifesto asked for the consideration of eight forms of aggressive alternative action to be implemented if the Chartist National Petition for universal suffrage failed.

Lloyd George announced that the Government would not give full facilities to the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) during the current session, but would do so in the next session.

The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , began weekly publication in Manchester.

The Irish Parliamentary (pro-Home-Rule) Party took an anti-suffrage position; while its members of parliament defeated suffrage amendments to the Home Rule Bill, the Irish Women's Franchise League held protest demonstrations during Home Rule rallies.

Among the six or seven million women who cast their first vote on this day, only the eighty-eight-year-old Emily Davies remained from the group of women who had first mobilized to campaign for suffrage in May 1866.

Many suffrage groups disbanded after this victory; however, the Irish Women's Franchise League increased in strength and activity.

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).

Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed consideration by the House of Commons of a petition for universal manhood suffrage bearing a million signatures.

Margaret Rhondda , as Chairman of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee , with many other suffrage veterans, signed a letter to the editor of The Times pressing for women to vote on equal terms with men.

To mark Emmeline Pankhurst 's birthday, the Suffragette Fellowship Memorial was unveiled in Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street, Westminster, in memory of all those women and men who worked to bring about women's suffrage.

The Irish Women's Reform League was established in Dublin by Louie Bennett , and affiliated to the Irish Women's Suffrage Federation .

The Women's Franchise League , an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Alice Scatcherd , and Harriet M'Ilquham and others.