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1839- Custody of Children Act1850- Frances Mary Buss founded the North London Collegiate School for Ladies1857- Matrimonial Causes Act Sewing machine invented: increase in volume of work fone in the 'sweated trades' at home1858- Dorothea Beale became principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College1859- The Workhouse Visiting Society founded1864- First Contagious Diseases Act Schools Enquiry Commission set up to investigate the education of children from middle-class homes1865- Election of John Stuart Mill as an MP Formation of the Kensington Society Elizabeth Garrett Anderson becomes first woman on the Medical Register1866- Second Contagious Diseases Act Women's Suffrage Committee founded in London Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage founded with Lydia Becker as its secretary1867- Second Reform Act Agricultural Gangs Act bans employment of young girls1868- Leeds Express publishes Sarah Ann Jackson's poem Lily Maxwell and nine other Manchester women vote in the general election1869- 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 18721870- 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 sector1871- Newnham College, Cambridge founded1872- National Society for Women's Suffrage combines local women's suffrage groups1873- Second Custody of Infants Act1874- Factory Act introduces a maximum 10-hour working day for women in factories outside the textile industry First typewriters sold in Britain1875- 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 League1876- Sandon's Act penalised pearents who kept their children away from school Enabling Bill, authorising all medical corporations to admit women to their examinations1878- Factory and Workshop Act extends protection for women and young people to all industries1879- Introduction of the telephone extends range of clerical work done by women and opens up new jobs eg post office1880- Mundella's Act made education compulsory for children under 131881- First Women's Liberal Association formed in Bristol1882- Second Married Woman's Property Act1883- Contagious Diseases Act suspended Primrose League established1884- Women acquire independent legal status1885- Age of consent raised from 13 to 161886- Married Women (Maintenance in Case of Desertion) Act Guardianship of Infants Act Repeal of Contagious Diseases Act1887- Women's Liberal Foundation established1888- Annie Besant organises the first women's strike at Bryant and May's match factory1889- Formation of Women's Franchise League with Emmeline Pankhurst as its leader An Appeal against Female Suffrage signed by over 100 mostly titled women1891- The Jackson Case: a man cannot compel his wife to live with him A government grant made education free in elementary schools1892- St Hilda's College, Oxford, founded1893- School leaving age fixed at 11 Women allowed to become factory inspectors1894- Local Government Act gave married women the right to vote in local elections and allowed women to stand for election as municipal councillors1896- Factory Act bans the employment of children under 11 Women are not to be employed for 4 weeks after having a child1897- 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 president1899- School leaving age raised to 121901- Factory Act reduces by one hour the time a woman can work each day1902- Balfour's Act sets up local education authorities to take over the administration of education from school boards1903- Women's Social and Political Union founded by Emmeline Pankhurst1905- Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney arrested for causing a disturbance1906- WSPU moved to London Daily Mirror nicknames WSPU members 'suffragettes' Liberal Party won landslide victory Free school meals introduced for the children of the poor1907- 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 poor1908- 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 votes1909- Second reading of Electoral Reform Bill, which included votes for women Suffragettes banned from Liberal meetings Government ordered the forcible feeding of hunger striking suffragettes1910- Black Friday Conciliation Bill carried by 139 votes1911- March of the Women composed by Ethel Smyth May: second Conciliation Bill debated November: failure of second Conciliation Bill1912- Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence leave the WSPU Emmeline Pankhurst makes speech urging greater militancy Third Conciliation Bill failed at second reading1913- 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) passed1914- 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 militancy1915- Coalition government set up1916- David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister Speaker's Conference set up1918- 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 141919- Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat Sex Disqualification Act1920- Married Women's Property Act extended to Scotland1922- Married Women's Maintenance Act Infanticide Act1923- Matrimonial Causes Act1925- Guardianship of Infants Act Bastardy Act The Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act1928- Equal Franchise Act
Women's History
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