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1776–1807
New Jersey grants women the vote in its state constitution. -
1637
Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy. -
1692
The Salem Witch Trials are held in Salem, Massachusetts. -
1789
1789: Abigail Adams makes plea to her husband: "Remember the ladies" in the new Constitution. -
1792
1792: Sarah Pierce establishes first institution in America for higher education of women, in Litchfield, Connecticut. -
February 15, 1820
February 15, 1820: Susan B. Anthony's birthday -
1838
1838: Kentucky widows with children in school are granted "school suffrage," the right to vote in school board elections. -
1847
1847: Maria Mitchell discovers a new comet, wins a medal from the King of Denmark. -
1848
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.