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1 January 1948: Railways in Britain were nationalised: the...

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1 January 1948

Railways in Britain were nationalised: the Big Four railways were merged as national property under the Transport Act, as British Rail .
Day, John R. The Story of London’s Underground. London Transport, 1974.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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“Railways Act 1993”. Railways Archive, 2004–2014.

1843: American Dan Emmett toured England with his...

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1843

American Dan Emmett toured England with his Virginia Minstrels , the first minstrel troupe heard in England.
Bratton, Jacqueline S., editor. Music Hall: Performance and Style. Open University Press, 1986.
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1826: The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was...

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1826

The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett to number around 30,000.
Behlmer, George K. “The Gypsy Problem in Victorian England”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
28
, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1985, pp. 231-53.
232-3, 240, 243

7 August 1814: Pope Pius VII re-established the order of...

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7 August 1814

Pope Pius VII re-established the order of the Jesuits , and Roman Catholic missionary work began again with vigour.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1857: A proposal to move the National Gallery further...

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1857

A proposal to move the National Gallery further out, from its central-London site in Trafalgar Square to somewhere suburban, resulted in a poll of Westminster employers as to the relation of their workforce to...

1820: By this date, there were over five thousand...

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1820

By this date, there were over five thousand Sunday Schools established by Evangelicals, with a total of approximately five hundred thousand pupils.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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12 September 1876: The International Association for the Exploration...

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12 September 1876

The International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of Central Africa was founded in Brussels under the auspices of King Leopold II of Belgium .
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...

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1881

The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington described some years later in a letter to The Times.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(30 March 1888): 8

4 October 1830: Following riots in Brussels inspired by news...

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4 October 1830

Following riots in Brussels inspired by news of the July Revolution in France, Belgium proclaimed independence from Holland.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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July 1915: Miners in South Wales mounted a successful...

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July 1915

Miners in South Wales mounted a successful strike.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
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Early 1768: The colony of Virginia executed some slaves...

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Early 1768

The colony of Virginia executed some slaves suspected of conspir[ing] to poison their overseers, and set their decapitated heads on display above the court house at Alexandria.
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
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, 2000, pp. 37-51.
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27 November 1807: The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later...

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27 November 1807

The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott .
Johnson, Richard William. “An Unreliable Friend”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, pp. 27-8.
27, 28

1597: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, probably...

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1597

Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, probably written in 1594-5, was both staged and published.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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14 August 1842: A mass demonstration of 10,000 Chartists...

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14 August 1842

A mass demonstration of 10,000 Chartists took place on Lees Moor.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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1962: The Rapid Plasma Reagent test was first designed,...

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1962

The Rapid Plasma Reagent test was first designed, for testing venereal disease in field conditions.
Rosebury, Theodor. Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking Press, 1971.
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July 1865: A general election was held in Britain; campaigning...

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July 1865

A general election was held in Britain; campaigning was rendered eventful by distress and unrest in industrial areas, and controversy over the prospect of a new Reform Bill.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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21 April 1896: Sigmund Freud read The Aetiology of Hysteria...

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21 April 1896

Sigmund Freud read The Aetiology of Hysteria before the Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna.
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
3, 9, 251

By the end of 1755: Material from Bonnell Thornton's and George...

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By the end of 1755

Material from Bonnell Thornton 's and George Colman 's prestigious anthology, Poems by Eminent Ladies, was recycled for a different market in A Select Collection of the Love Letters of several Eminent Persons, edited by G. Gaylove.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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23 August 1628: Charles I's favourite George Villiers, 1st...

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23 August 1628

Charles I 's favourite George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (whose daughter Lady Mary, later Duchess of Richmond, is widely identified as the poet Ephelia ), was assassinated at Portsmouth.
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By 6 July 1872: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu published In A Glass...

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By 6 July 1872

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu published In A Glass Darkly, including the lesbian vampire story Carmilla.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Tillie Olsen

TO , one of the leading lights of the twentieth-century feminist movement in the USA, prided herself on being a proletarian writer. She published very few books: a short-story volume, a novel, a book...
Tillie Olsen Photograph of Tillie Olsen, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a black turtleneck and a necklace of small red, blue, and white beads. Her hair is short, grey, and sticking straight up from her head.

23 June 1894: The International Olympic Committee (IOC)...

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23 June 1894

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was set up to organise international Olympic Games meetings inspired by the pan-Greek games of classical times.
International Organizations and Groups. http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/org-fact.html#ec.

7 November 1972: Richard Nixon was re-elected President of...

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7 November 1972

Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the United States—although his agency in the break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC, had already been established by reporters Carl Bernstein and...

June 1857: The Christian Lady's Magazine (not the journal...

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June 1857

The Christian Lady's Magazine (not the journal of this title formerly edited by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna ) ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Sara Jeanette Duncan

SJD was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne...
Sara Jeanette Duncan Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Sara Jeannette Duncan, wearing a light buttoned blouse with a white flower in her dark curly hair.