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Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary is established in South Hadley, Massachusetts by Mary Lyon as the first college for women. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States from Geneva College in New York. For the first time, women are permitted to practice medicine legally. -
Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association with the primary goal to achieve voting rights for women through a Congressional amendment to the US Constitution. -
A Wyoming Court swears
A Wyoming Court swears in the first panel of female Grand Jurors, finding that their service will "give them the best possible opportunities to aid in suppressing the dens of infamy which curse the country." -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony casts her first vote as an attempt to test whether the Fourteenth Amendment would be interpreted broadly to guarantee women the right to vote. She was tried in June 17-18, 1873 in Canandaigua, New York and found guilty of "unlawful voting." -
Colorado
Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment giving women the right to vote. -
Oregon passed a law
In 1903, Oregon passed a law limiting the number of hours a woman could work in a laundry to ten hours a day. Laundry owner Curt Muller sued, claiming that the law was an unconstitutional violation of employers’ "liberty to contract" with employees. -
New York City,
25,000 women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote. -
Republican Jeannette Rankin
Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first women to serve in either branch of Congress. She is elected at a time when women in most states are still not allowed to vote. -
The Women's Bureau
The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed by Congress "to formulate standards and policies which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable, employment -
Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas
Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Rebecca Felton of Georgia had previously been appointed to the Senate but had served one day -
President Ronald Reagan
The U.S. Senate votes unanimously to confirm Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman Supreme Court Justice. She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan
