European Women in History By Mermermaid Period: 650 BCE to 580 BCE Safo de Mitilene Period: 189 BCE to 110 BCE Cornelia Africana Period: 60 to 61 Boudica Period: 1000 to 1000 Trótula de Salerno Period: 1140 to 1212 Beatriz de Día Period: 1300 to 1300 Egeria Period: 1412 to 1431 Juana de Arco Period: 1465 to 1535 Beatriz Galindo Period: 1530 to 1603 Grace O’Malley Period: 1567 to 1612 Isabel Barreto Period: 1587 to 1641 Francesca Caccini Period: 1640 to 1689 Aphra Behn Period: 1666 to 1731 Mary Astell Period: 1730 to 1804 Charlotte Lennox Period: 1748 to 1793 Marie de Gouze Period: 1750 to 1848 Carolina Herschel Period: 1755 to 1831 Sara Siddons Period: 1757 to 1806 Georgiana Cavendish Period: 1759 to 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Period: 1780 to 1872 Mary Somerville Period: 1788 to 1833 Mary Prince Period: 1788 to 1833 Mary Prince Period: 1797 to 1858 Ida Laura Pfeiffer Period: 1799 to 1847 Mary Anning Period: 1800 to 1800 Esmeralda Period: 1804 to 1884 Marie Taglioni Period: 1815 to 1852 Ada Lovelace Period: 1820 to 1910 Florence Nightingale Period: 1849 to 1944 Bertha Benz Period: 1857 to 1933 Clara Zetkin Period: 1867 to 1934 Marie Curie Period: 1867 to 1932 Carmen de Burgos Period: 1870 to 1966 Charlotte Cooper Period: 1876 to 1917 Margaretha Geertruida Zelle Period: 1882 to 1941 Virginia Woolf Period: 1882 to 1931 Lili Elbe Period: 1882 to 1935 Emmy Noether Period: 1882 to 1960 Melanie Klein Period: 1882 to 1919 Raymonde de Laroche Period: 1882 to 1919 Raymonde de Laroche Period: 1883 to 1971 Coco Chanel Period: 1893 to 1993 Freya Stark Period: 1904 to 1984 Helena Cortesina Period: 1910 to 1937 Gerda Taro Period: 1914 to 2000 Hedy Lamarr Period: 1915 to 1963 Édith Piaf Period: 1920 to 1958 Rosalind Franklin Period: 1930 to 2020 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Period: 1963 to 2020 Helen Sharman Period: 1973 to 2020 Edurne Pasaban Period: 1980 to 2020 Marta Fernández Herráiz Period: 1988 to 2020 Patricia Ortega