women history month

By David shorter

  • Anne Hutchinson

    1637: Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.

  • Salem witch

    1692: The Salem Witch Trials are held in Salem, Massachusetts.

  • New Jersey

    1776–1807: New Jersey grants women the vote in its state constitution.

  • Abigail Adams

    1789: Abigail Adams makes plea to her husband: "Remember the ladies" in the new Constitution.

  • Sarah pierce

    1792: Sarah Pierce establishes first institution in America for higher education of women, in Litchfield, Connecticut.

  • susan b anthony

    February 15, 1820: Susan B. Anthony's birthday

  • kentucky

    1838: Kentucky widows with children in school are granted "school suffrage," the right to vote in school board elections.

  • maria mitchell

    1847: Maria Mitchell discovers a new comet, wins a medal from the King of Denmark.

  • the first convection

    July 19 and 20, 1848: Three hundred people attend the first convention held to discuss women's rights, in Seneca Falls, New York; 68 women and 32 men sign the "Declaration of Sentiments," including the first formal demand made in the United States for women's right to vote: "...it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise."

  • lucretia mott

    july 13, 1848: Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock are invited to tea at the home of Jane Hunt in Waterloo, New York. They decide to call a two-day meeting of women at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Seneca Falls to discuss women's rights.

  • Amy post

    August 2, 1848: Amy Post, Sarah D. Fish, Sarah C. Owen, and Mary H. Hallowell convene a women's rights convention in Rochester, New York. Abigail Bush chairs the public meeting, a first for American women.

  • Elizabeth blackwell

    1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first licensed woman physician in the United States.

  • Isabella Van

    1850: Isabella Van Wegener adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 and became an itinerant preacher. In 1850 she began speaking out widely for women's rights.

  • Harriet tubmen

    1850: Harriet Tubman joined the Underground Railroad efforts, leading slaves to freedom.

  • The Una premiers

    February, 1853: The Una premiers in Providence, Rhode Island, edited by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. With a masthead declaring it to be "A Paper Devoted to the Elevation of Woman," it is acknowledged as the first feminist newspaper of the woman's rights movement.