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Kate Lupton, Vanderbilt's First Woman Graduate.
Kate Lupton, daughter of chemistry professor Nathaniel T. Lupton, was awarded a Master of Arts in 1879. Because women were not officially recognized, Lupton received her degree through a special vote of the faculty and Board of Trust but was given her diploma in private. -
Ellis Island opens
Fifteen year old Annie Moore is the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island. -
Colorado is the first state in the Union to approve women's suffrage
Colorado women win the right to vote in the popular election of 1893. Utah and Idaho grant women the same right in 1896. -
Vandy Women defeat Ward's Seminary, 5-0.
Team Captain Stella Vaughn led the women's basketball team to victory against Ward's Seminary in the the basketball team's first game ever. -
Martha E. Hunnicutt wins Founder's Medal (exact date unkown)
Martha E. Hunnicutt is the first woman to win the Founder's Medal at Vanderbilt. -
Martin, Maslin, and Tuttle elected to Phi Beta Kappa (exact date unknown)
Amelia Baskervill Martin, Martha Maney Maslin, and Daisy Tuttle are the first undergraduate women elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt. -
Marie Curie wins Nobel Prize in Physics
In 1903 Marie Curie along with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity. Curie is the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. -
Suffragette Suit
Designed in protest against heavy, impractical skirts. the "suffragette suit" is one of the highlights at the American Ladies Tailors Association exhibition in New York. The suit features a jacket with many pockets and a separated skirt with creases and cuffs like those of men's trousers. -
Marie Curie wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marie Curie receives the Noble Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". She is the only woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in two different disciplines. -
Mary W. Haggard named university registrar (exact date unknown)
Mary W. Haggard is the first woman named university registrar at Vanderbilt. -
NAWSA holds convention in Nashville (exact date unknown)
The National American Woman Suffrage Association holds their convention in Nashville in November of 1914. -
Sanger opens nations first birth control clinic
Margaret Sanger opens the nations first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. On October 24, 1916, after only nine days in operation, the clinic was raided, and Sanger and her staff were arrested and charged with maintaining a “public nuisance”. Sanger was convicted and spent thirty days in prison. -
First Woman elected to Congress
Jeanette Rankin, Republican from Montana, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, thus becoming the first woman to hold a seat in either chamber. In office she introduced the first bill that would have allowed women citizenship independent of their husbands and also supported government-sponsored hygiene instruction in maternity and infancy. -
Women Can Vote!
The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified granting women the right to vote.
