Timeline Task

By beccaluna
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther: 95 Theses

    Beginning of the Protestant Reformation Propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin), and posted on the door of the Schlosskirche/Castle Church

  • Peace of Westphalia

    Brought an end to the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War

  • Committees of Correspondence

    Groups appointed by the legislatures in the 13 British American colonies to provide colonial leadership and aid intercolonial cooperation Prompted by Samuel Adams

  • Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

    Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls to address changes that women wanted to be made to the Declaration. Sixty-eight women and 32 men, including abolitionist Frederick Douglass, signed the Declaration of Sentiments, although many eventually withdrew their names because of the intense ridicule and criticism they received after the document was made public.

  • Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address

    World-famous speech delivered by Pres. Abraham Lincoln at the dedication (November 19, 1863) of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the decisive battles of the American Civil War (July 1–3, 1863).

  • Simone de Beauvoir

    She is known primarily for her treatise Le Deuxième Sexe calling for the abolition of the myth of the eternal feminine

  • Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream"

    Urged America to "make real the promises of democracy" "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children."
    -Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Kimberle Williams Krenshaw

    Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles, and has written in the areas of civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.

    She authored the background paper on Race and Gender Discrimination for the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism. Served as a member of the National Science Foundation's committee to research violence against women