Emily Pankhurst

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
07/14/1858	Emily is born	Emmeline Goulden was born on 14 July 1858 in Manchester
03/12/1870	Emily's mother starts taking emily to women's suffrage meetings	Emmeline's mother was a passionate feminist and started taking her daughter to women's suffrage meetings in the early 1870s
01/01/1889	Emily founded the Women's Franchise League	In 1889, Emmeline founded the Women's Franchise League, which fought to allow married women to vote in local elections.
03/12/1903	She helped found the Militant Women's Social and Political Union	In October 1903, she helped found the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - an organisation that gained much notoriety for its activities and whose members were the first to be christened 'suffragettes'
03/12/1913	Fellow Women's Rights member was killed	In 1913, WSPU member Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at the Derby as a protest at the government's continued failure to grant women the right to vote.
03/12/1913	Emily and others went on hunger strike	In 1913, in response to the wave of hunger strikes, the government passed what became known as the 'Cat and Mouse' Act. Hunger striking prisoners were released until they grew strong again, and then re-arrested.
03/12/1914	Outbreak of war ended period of militancy	This period of militancy was ended abruptly on the outbreak of war in 1914, when Emmeline turned her energies to supporting the war effort
03/12/1918	Women over 30 recieved voting rights	In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave voting rights to women over 30
03/12/1928	Emily dies	Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men (at 21)
03/12/1928	Women recieve same voting age as men