1405
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Christine de Pisan publishes The Book of the City of Ladies |
1648
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Margaret Brent requests the right to vote from the Maryland State Assembly – beginning of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement |
1792
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Mary Wollsonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
1835
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Oberlin College in Ohio becomes the first college to admit students without regard to race or sex |
1837
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French Socialist Charles Fourier coins the term feminisme |
| First Wave |
1848
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The first women’s rights convention is organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls, New York |
1860
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Married women are granted the same rights to property and child custody as their husbands in New York |
| 1865 |
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery |
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1872
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested after voting illegally |
1893
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New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women the right to vote |
| 1913 |
Alice Paul fouds the National Woman’s Party |
1915
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Nurse, Margaret Sanger illegally begins educating women on birth control methods |
1916
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to Congress
Margaret Sanger opens the first family-planning and birth control clinic |
| 1919 |
Founding of the League of Women Voters |
1920
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The Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote
On November 2, more than eight million women vote for the first time |
1923
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Equal Rights Amendment proposing equal rights to all Americans regardless of sex is first introduced to Congress |
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