1839- Custody of Children Act

1850- Frances Mary Buss founded the North London Collegiate School for Ladies

1857- Matrimonial Causes Act
Sewing machine invented: increase in volume of work fone in the 'sweated trades' at home

1858- Dorothea Beale became principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College

1859- The Workhouse Visiting Society founded

1864- First Contagious Diseases Act
Schools Enquiry Commission set up to investigate the education of children from middle-class homes

1865- Election of John Stuart Mill as an MP
Formation of the Kensington Society
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson becomes first woman on the Medical Register

1866- Second Contagious Diseases Act
Women's Suffrage Committee founded in London
Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage founded with Lydia Becker as its secretary

1867- Second Reform Act
Agricultural Gangs Act bans employment of young girls

1868- Leeds Express publishes Sarah Ann Jackson's poem
Lily Maxwell and nine other Manchester women vote in the general election

1869- Third Contagious Diseases Act
Josephine Butler forms the Ladies National Association
Municipal Franchise Act allows unmarried women ratepayers to vote in municipal elections
First women's college at Cambridge University founded in Hitchin, moving to Girton in 1872

1870- First Married Woman's Property Act
Education Act allows women ratepayers to vote for, and serve on, the new school boards
Punch publishes 'An Ugly Rush'
Richard Pankhurst drafts and introduces to parliament the first Women's Suffrage bill
Forster's Education Act introduced a dual system of education, whereby the state provided schools to fit gaps left by the voluntary sector

1871- Newnham College, Cambridge founded

1872- National Society for Women's Suffrage combines local women's suffrage groups

1873- Second Custody of Infants Act

1874- Factory Act introduces a maximum 10-hour working day for women in factories outside the textile industry
First typewriters sold in Britain

1875- First woman elected to serve on Poor Law Boards as guardians of the poor
Women make up more than 50% of all elementary school teachers
Emma Paterson founds the Women's Protective and Provident League

1876- Sandon's Act penalised pearents who kept their children away from school
Enabling Bill, authorising all medical corporations to admit women to their examinations

1878- Factory and Workshop Act extends protection for women and young people to all industries

1879- Introduction of the telephone extends range of clerical work done by women and opens up new jobs eg post office

1880- Mundella's Act made education compulsory for children under 13

1881- First Women's Liberal Association formed in Bristol

1882- Second Married Woman's Property Act

1883- Contagious Diseases Act suspended
Primrose League established

1884- Women acquire independent legal status

1885- Age of consent raised from 13 to 16

1886- Married Women (Maintenance in Case of Desertion) Act
Guardianship of Infants Act
Repeal of Contagious Diseases Act

1887- Women's Liberal Foundation established

1888- Annie Besant organises the first women's strike at Bryant and May's match factory

1889- Formation of Women's Franchise League with Emmeline Pankhurst as its leader
An Appeal against Female Suffrage signed by over 100 mostly titled women

1891- The Jackson Case: a man cannot compel his wife to live with him
A government grant made education free in elementary schools

1892- St Hilda's College, Oxford, founded

1893- School leaving age fixed at 11
Women allowed to become factory inspectors

1894- Local Government Act gave married women the right to vote in local elections and allowed women to stand for election as municipal councillors

1896- Factory Act bans the employment of children under 11
Women are not to be employed for 4 weeks after having a child

1897- Faithful Begg MP presents a Women's Suffrage bill to parliament
Formation of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies with Millicent Fawcett as its president

1899- School leaving age raised to 12

1901- Factory Act reduces by one hour the time a woman can work each day

1902- Balfour's Act sets up local education authorities to take over the administration of education from school boards

1903- Women's Social and Political Union founded by Emmeline Pankhurst

1905- Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney arrested for causing a disturbance

1906- WSPU moved to London
Daily Mirror nicknames WSPU members 'suffragettes'
Liberal Party won landslide victory
Free school meals introduced for the children of the poor

1907- Votes for Women founded
Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Grieg expelled from WSPU
Free medical inspections introduced for the children of the poor
Free places in secondary schools for the children of the poor

1908- Women chained themselves to railings for the first time
Beginning of organised heckling of Cabinet ministers
'Women's Sunday' organised by WSPU
First window smashing
Women's Suffrage Bill carried by 179 votes

1909- Second reading of Electoral Reform Bill, which included votes for women
Suffragettes banned from Liberal meetings
Government ordered the forcible feeding of hunger striking suffragettes

1910- Black Friday
Conciliation Bill carried by 139 votes

1911- March of the Women composed by Ethel Smyth
May: second Conciliation Bill debated
November: failure of second Conciliation Bill

1912- Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence leave the WSPU
Emmeline Pankhurst makes speech urging greater militancy
Third Conciliation Bill failed at second reading

1913- Emily Davison dies at the Epsom Derby
Amendment to Franchise Bill ruled out of order by Speaker
The Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act (Cat and Mouse Act) passed

1914- Sylvia Pankhurst expelled from the WSPU
March: government closes galleries because the Rokeby Venus slashed by a suffragette
August: Britain declares war on Germany
WSPU suspended militancy

1915- Coalition government set up

1916- David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
Speaker's Conference set up

1918- February: Representation of the People Act gives the vote to women over 30
Constance Markiewicz elected to parliament
Fisher's Act raised the school leaving age to 14

1919- Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat
Sex Disqualification Act

1920- Married Women's Property Act extended to Scotland

1922- Married Women's Maintenance Act
Infanticide Act

1923- Matrimonial Causes Act

1925- Guardianship of Infants Act
Bastardy Act
The Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act

1928- Equal Franchise Act

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