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Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with Lucretia Mott, established a meeting after being denied at the World Anti-Slavery Committee in London. Around 300 people showed up including 40 men. All resolutions were passed excluding women’s suffrage due to the Quaker environment. Stanton was not discouraged, the attention gained would help later on.
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Nightingale Training School for Nurses Formed
Nightingale, a British nurse who was a nurse in the Crimean war, improved the way nursing was run during her time there. After, in 1860, she set up a training center for nurses and the nurses were sent all over Britain, which changed the way medical fields were run in the UK.
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Metropolitan Line opens in London
The Metropolitan line opened in the city of London and ran between Paddington and Farringdon Street. It was the first type of subway transportation in the world because it was an underground system. The Met was a new means of transportation that really helped the social class to go into the London.
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Wyoming is the first to grant women's rights to vote
Wyoming is often called the “Equality State” due to the fact that it was the first state to allow women to vote. Although a territory at the time, a bill granting women living in Wyoming the right to vote was signed by Governor A.J. Campbell. After Wyoming granted the first women’s right to vote in the US, other women’s suffrage movements followed around the world.
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Great Britain votes on Education Act
This bill voted on by Parliament, also known as the “Forster Act”, provided a new modern system for education that provided more secular schools. Also, this bill provided more elementary schools around the UK, and the country was divided into school districts. The school system from this bill is like “public schools” today.
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Andrew Smith Hallidie invents the first cable car
With the invention of the cable car in San Francisco, Hallidie provided a new means of transportation across America. San Francisco was the first to have cable cars around the city and there were also cable cars in Chicago. By 1890, several large busy cities in America had cable cars running across the city.
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Clara Barton froms the American Red Cross
Barton, a nurse in the Civil War, formed the American Red Cross, which has brought relief effort to disastrous areas, wars, went overseas, and brought first aid to people around the world. Barton lead Red Cross for 23 years. The Red Cross has helped in both Worlds Wars, the Great Depression and other areas in the US that have been affected by disasters weather.
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Evening News is first published in Great Britain
The Evening News was founded by Coleridge Kennedy and Harry Marks in London, UK. The Evening News became popular because of the increase in literacy. Soon after its first publication, it sold more than 219,000 copies over the next year and by 1889 it had the largest sale in London’s history.
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New Zealand is the first country to grant women's rights to vote
Governor Glasgow signed the Electoral Bill creating New Zealand the first self-governing country to allow it’s women to vote.This was in effect of two petitions that had been done in previous years. Since then, several countries followed the women’s suffrage and granted women that privilege, so they can have equal rights to men.
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Daily Mail is first published in the UK
The Daily Mail was founded by Alfred Harmsworth in London. It had a lot of unique things that other newspapers in Britain did not have, like short, simple and readable article, the newspaper contained sports and people’s interests, and it also had the first women’s section. The Daily Mail, like the Evening News became a popular read among the British at that time.
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First Women to Compete in the Olympics Games in Paris - Summer of 1900
19 women were the first to compete in the Paris Olympic games. At the time, women only played tennis, golf, and croquet, since they were considered the “girly” kind of sport at that time. Among these women were Charlotte Cooper, Margaret Abbott, Elvira Guerra and many others competed at those games.
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Women's Social and Political Union establishment
Emmeline Pankhurst, along with her two daughters, Christabel Pankhurst and Sylvia Pankhurst formed the Social and Political Union. WSPU was a suffrage movement in Manchester, UK that had the main goal of showing people that women were equal to the same political status as men. Since then, Pankhurst had made campaigns for this movement with the help of her daughters and the rest of the union.
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Lucy Burns and Alice Paul protest at the White House
In November of 1917, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, activists for the women’s suffrage movement, picket the White House for the women’s rights and were arrested for blocking traffic. Burns, Paul and other women like Susan B. Anthony are known for their movement in the women’s rights and protested for their equal rights.
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19th Amendement is passed in the US
The 19th Amendment was passed in US Congress to grant women’s rights to vote in national and local elections. Ever since the Civil War, women, not only in the US, but around the world had made a suffrage movement because they wanted equal rights like the men in the nations. But the 19th amendment granted that chance for women in the US to have that privilege.
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Great Britian grants women the right to vote
The Fifth Reform act granted bought up by the conservative government granted women 21 years and over to have the right to vote. This gave the women of the UK equal rights towards men. Before, the government only granted women in the UK to have the right to vote thirty years or over.
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The Stock Market crashes
During the “Roaring Twenties,” technology advancements and industrialization becoming popular, the United States were in fact roaring with success. During October investors saw that the market was an inflated bubble, and it popped. Causing people all over the United States to go bankrupt within seconds.
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