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Susan B.
Susan B. Anthony's birthday -
Lucretia Mott
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. -
Women's rights convention
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. -
Susan B.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first meet on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York. -
School board elections
Women in Kansas are granted the vote in school board elections. -
Wonmen's rights
Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention is held. The American Equal Rights Association is formed at the end of the convention, and the members pledge to achieve suffrage for both women and black Americans. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution, which becomes one of the most important radical periodicals of the women's movement, although it circulates for less than three years. Its motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!" -
New Jersey
In Vineland, New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the presidential election, inspiring similar demonstrations elsewhere in following years. -
Woman's Journal Debuts
The Woman's Journal debuts, edited by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Mary Livermore. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton candidate for congress
October 10, 1866: Elizabeth Cady Stanton declares herself a candidate for Congress from the 8th Congressional District of New York and eventually loses. -
Wyoming is admitted to the Union
Wyoming is admitted to the Union, becoming the first state since New Jersey (1776–1807) to grant women full enfranchisement in its state constitution. -
Arrests of the National Women's Party
Arrests of the National Woman's Party picketers begin on charges of obstructing traffic. Their inhumane treatment in jail creates a cadre of martyrs for the suffrage cause. -
Federal woman suffrage
The House of Representatives passes the federal woman suffrage amendment, 304 to 89, a margin of 42 votes over the required two-thirds majority. -
Senate passes the 19th Amendment
The Senate passes the 19th Amendment with just two votes to spare: 56 to 25. Drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and first introduced in 1878, it is now sent to the states for ratification. -
Hillary Clinton
2009: Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the third woman to hold the post of Secretary of State.