Women's History month

Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.

Mar 16, 1637

The Salem Witch Trials are held in Salem, Massachusetts.

Mar 16, 1692

women history

Period: Feb 1, 1776 to Aug 1, 2009

New Jersey grants women the vote in its state constitution.

Mar 16, 1776

"Remember the ladies" in the new Constitution.

Mar 16, 1789

Sarah Pierce establishes first institution in America

Mar 16, 1792

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

Susan B. Anthony's birthday

Feb 15, 1820

Kentucky widows with children in school are granted "school suffrage,

Mar 16, 1838

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

Mar 16, 1847

Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Cady Stanton and MaryAnn McClintock are invited to tea

Jul 14, 1848

300 people attend the first convention held for women's rights

Jul 19, 1848

Amy Post, Sarah D. Fish, Sarah C. Owen, and Mary H. Hallowell convene a women's rights convention

Aug 2, 1848

Elizabeth blackwell lackwell becomes the first licensed woman in US

Mar 17, 1849

Isabella Van Wegener adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843

Mar 17, 1850

Harriet Tubman joined the Underground Railroad

Mar 17, 1850

First National Wo woman's Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Oct 23, 1850

First National Woman's Rights Convention is held in Worcester,

Oct 24, 1850

The "Bloomer costume" is adopted to urge dress reform for women.

Mar 18, 1851

In Salem, Ohio, w women take complete control of their women's rights convention

Apr 19, 1859

The Woman's Journal debuts, edited by Lucy Stoneand

Jan 8, 1870

Michigan and Minnesota give women the "school vote."

Mar 18, 1875