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