19th Century reform events

Food and Drugs Act

Jan 1, 1860

prevents the adulteration of food. The Nightingale School of Nursing is founded.

The World's First Underground Railway opens in London

Jan 30, 1863

Using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. Queens institute is founded in London for the first industrial training of women.

Girls are admitted into Cambirdge local examinations

Jan 30, 1865

and Barbra Bodichon forms womens suffrage committee

Infant Custody Act

Jan 30, 1872

Provides a possibility that a mother can obtain a child custody even if she committed adultlery

Women Physicians

Jan 30, 1875

be liscensed to practice

Royal Free Hospital

Jan 30, 1877

admits women as medical students

FIrst womens colleges at Oxford

Jan 30, 1879

Pharmaceutical society admits women as members

Second Married Womens Property Act

Jan 30, 1882

Entitles married women to retain seperate ownership of any properrty they own before their marriage