Virginia Dare becomes the first English child born in the New World.
Greensboro College, North Carolina’s first chartered college for women, is opened and operated by the Methodist Church.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony begin publishing The Revolution, an important women's movement periodical. Other media ridicule their ideas, calling wider public attention to them.
The number of women attending college has increased 150 percent since 1900.
The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, 304 to 89; the Senate passes it with just two votes to spare, 56 to 25.
Margaret Chase Smith (Republican from Maine) becomes the first woman elected to both houses of the U.S. Congress when she is elected to the Senate.
The North Carolina General Assembly ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment after 51 years.
Elizabeth Dole is elected North Carolina's first female United States senator.
