· 1813
In England, Elizabeth Fry advocates reform of Newgate Prison, in which 300 women and children are housed under appalling conditions. ****
· 1816
Barbadian slave Nanny Grigg plays a significant role in the island’s only serious slave rebellion.***
· 1868
In Thailand, Amdang Munan refuses to marry the man her parents picked for her. She prevails upon the king to rule that women may choose their own husbands. ***
· 1869
Iowan Arabella Mansfield is the first woman admitted to the bar in the United States. ***
· 1869
Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).***
· 1869
Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell help found the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). ***
· 1872
Charlotte E. Ray, the first African American woman lawyer, becomes the first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia. ***
· 1872
Susan B. Anthony leads 15 women to vote in Rochester, New York. She is arrested two weeks later. ***
· 1877
Eudora Clark Atkinson is the first woman superintendent of the first women’s state reformatory in the United States. ***
· 1877
Mother Jones helps lead the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, railroad strike. ***
· c. 1880
Paiute Indian leader Sarah Winnemucca protests conditions on Indian reservations. ***
· 1881
In the United States the Indian Treaty-Keeping and Protective Association (later Women’s National Indian Association) is founded by Mary Lucinda Bonney and Amelia Stone Quinton. ***
· 1881
Clara Barton establishes the American branch of the Red Cross and becomes its first president. ***
· 1881
Sofya Perovskaya helps to plan the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. She is arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed. ***
· 1881
Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor, a profound condemnation of the treatment of Native Americans by the United States. ***
· 1886
Anandibai Joshee is the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree. ***
· 1889
Journalist Nellie Bly sets off around the world to beat the fictional record of Phileas Fogg. ***
· 1889
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House in Chicago. It is one of the first settlement houses in the United States and the most famous. ***
· 1891
Liliuokalani becomes queen of Hawaii. ***
· 1892
Belgian activist Marie Popelin helps found the Belgian League of Women’s Rights. ***
· 1892
Journalist Ida Wells-Barnett begins her campaign against lynching. Her newspaper offices are burned, and she is driven out of Memphis, Tennessee. ***
· 1892
The Royal Geographical Society admits Isabella Bird Bishop, its first female member. ***
· 1893
Largely through the efforts of suffragist Kate Sheppard, New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women the right to vote. ***
· 1893
In New York, Lillian D. Wald and Mary M. Brewster found the Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It will become the home of the first visiting nurse organization. ***
The U.S. Geological Survey hires its first woman, geologist Florence Bascom. ***
· 1897
Americans Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst found the National Congress of Mothers, later called the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). ***
· 1898
Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes Women and Economics. She argues that the lost talent of women hampers the entire economy. ***
· 1898
The Chinese dowager empress Cixi regains power from the emperor. In 1900 she supports the Boxer Rebellion against the foreign powers. ***
· 1899
Kansan Carry Nation begins her campaign to close saloons, physically attacking bars with her hatchet. ***
· 1899
Korean women organize Yo-u-hoe, the Association of Women Friends, to fight against concubinage. ***
· 1899
Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League campaign against child labor and sweatshops and in favor of minimum wage legislation, shorter hours, improved conditions, and safety laws. ***
· 1900
Efficiency expert and industrial psychologist Lillian Moller (later Gilbreth) becomes the first female commencement speaker at the University of California at Berkeley. ***
· 1900
British tennis player Charlotte Cooper wins the first women’s gold medal at the Olympics. ***
· 1900
Doctor Yoshioka Yayoi founds Japan’s first medical school for women.***
