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At a convention in Seneca Falls, New York women's rights advocates proposed the "Declaration of Sentiments" which included a provision to extend the right to vote to all women. -
Senator Edgar Cowan proposes an amendment for women's suffrage. The Senate defeats Cowan’s amendment by a vote of 9-37. -
Senator Aaron Sargent proposes amendment providing for women's suffrage. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." The next day suffragettes testify for the first time in front of the senate on the issue of women's suffrage. -
The Committee on Privileges and Elections reviews 30,000 petitions requesting a women's suffrage amendment. Recommends that consideration of the issue be "indefinitely postponed". -
For the first time in history, a committee a report to the senate suggesting an amendment. The committee on women's suffrage submitted a report supporting the addition of a woman's suffrage amendment. -
In February 1886 the Senate Select Committee on Women's Suffrage reports the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the full senate. Nearly a year later, the senate holds it's first vote on the proposal, losing 16-34. -
Dozens of suffragists lobby senators in the Marble Room. Organised with the conjunction of the NWASA meeting in Washington D.C. -
At the first national women's suffrage parade held in Washington D.C., spectators assault marching suffragists. A senate investigation on the events of the day conclude that “uniformed and…special police acted with more or less indifference while on duty.” -
Suffragists deliver petitions with more than 75,000 signatures to the senate. Suffragists called it "The siege of the senate". Senators formally submit the petitions for committee referral. -
Woodrow Wilson pleads with senators to immediately pass the Susan B. Anthony amendment. The amendment had been approved by the House of Representatives in January 1918. -
After 41 years of debate, the senate finally approves of the Susan B. Anthony amendment providing women's suffrage on June 4, 1919. Upon Tennessee's approval the 19th amendment becomes ratified in the constitution. -
Four decades after passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, President Johnson signs into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act provides enforcement mechanisms to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the Constitution.