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Period: 1819 BCE to 1901 BCE
Queen Victoria
The Queen Victoria was “the” most powerful woman in history , she was head of the vast colonial British Empire.
She supported an act of Parliament in 1838 which abolished slavery throughout all colonies in the British Empire. In 1847, she supported the Factory Act which reduced the working day in textile mills to ten hours.
Victoria supported the Third Reform Act of 1884, which granted the right to vote to all male householders and effectively extended the vote to most British men. -
Period: 1508 BCE to 1458 BCE
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut was one of the most powerful women in the ancient world. She was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and she ruled longer than any other woman in Egyptian history. Hatshepsut was married to her sickly half brother, Thutmose II, and the two of them began to co-rule after the death of their father, Thutmose I, in 1492 BC In 1479 BC, Thutmose II died and Hatshepsut continued to rule by herself until her own death in 1458 BC -
Queen Elizabeth II (1926)
Queen Elizabeth has ruled over the United Kingdom for 60 years now and has presided over the country through some of the most turbulent times. -
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
Emmeline, a passionate feminist, was an influential women's activist who fought along with her husband for the rights of the women in late 19th century and early 20th century. After she lost her husband, she teamed up with her three daughters and formed 'The Women’s Social and Political Union' - best known as the suffragettes (women's right to vote). -
Aung Sang Suu Kyi (1945)
Burmese opposition politician Suu Kyi was under house arrest for 15 years for her pre-democracy campaigning. She only gained release in 2010 following an international campaign to let her free. She won a nobel prize in 1991 where it was said that "Suu Kyi's struggle is one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades.". -
Oprah Winfrey (1954)
Oprah, a generous Philanthropist, who is today worth $2.7 billion as a famous US talk show host and a media proprietor, was born to a poor single mother in Mississippi. -
Diana (1961-1997), Princess of Wales
Princess Diana was a well-loved "people's princess". She devoted her life to charity work; she led a nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign to ban landmines.
