First swimming bath for ladies, opened in Marylebone, July 14.

1859. Society for the Employment of Women established in London, June 22.

1860. Law-copying Office for women opened February 15....

Victoria Printing Press, established March 26.... Inst.i.tution for the Employment of Needle-women commenced.... First admission of women students to the Royal Academy (Miss Herford).

1861. Lectures on Physiology to ladies at University College, April.

1862. Social Science Congress in London; though not the first time ladies had read papers at the congress--this was remarkable for the increased share they took in its proceedings.... Ladies'

Negro Emanc.i.p.ation Society commenced.... New church order of deaconesses founded on the model of Kaiserwerth.... First voyage of Miss Rye to Australia, and commencement of her system of emigration.

1863. Establishment of Queen's Inst.i.tute, Dublin, for industrial training of women.

1864. Female Medical and Obstetrical Society begun.... Working Women's College, Queen's Square, opened October 26.

1865. Miss Garrett receives her medical diploma from Apothecaries' Hall.

1866. A pet.i.tion of 1,500 women for the franchise presented, and the first women's suffrage society formed.

1867. Mr. Mill's motion in the House of Commons to give the suffrage to women.... Lily Maxwell voted in Manchester for Mr.

Jacob Bright.

1868. In the general election many women who were left on the register voted. Women's suffrage was declared illegal by the Court of Common Pleas, November 9.... London University establishes a women's examination.

1869. Ladies' Educational a.s.sociation begun in London, which was dissolved July 18, 1878, upon London University College admitting women as regular students.... Women's College established at Hitchin, October ... The telegraph service was transferred to government, and women clerks were retained, thus entering the civil service.... Munic.i.p.al Franchise act pa.s.sed; women first voted under it November 1.

1870. Publication of _Women's Suffrage Journal_ commenced March 1.... Women's Disabilities Removal bill introduced by Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., read a second time, but rejected in committee, May.... Lectures for women begun in Cambridge.... First examinations of women in Queen's University, Ireland.... Married Women's Property act (England) pa.s.sed, August 9.... National Indian a.s.sociation established by Mary Carpenter (princ.i.p.al object: the improvement of women's education in India), September.... Vigilance a.s.sociation established, October; mainly occupied in women's questions.... Elementary Education act pa.s.sed.... First school-board election in London, November 25 (Miss Garrett and Miss Emily Davies elected in London; Miss Becker, Manchester, etc.).

1871. Ladies' National Health a.s.sociation commenced by Dr.

Elizabeth Blackwell.... Law of Ireland amended slightly with regard to married women's property.... National Union for improving the education of women established by Mrs. Grey, November.

1872. New Hospital for Women, opened February, in Marylebone (women doctors).... Girls' Public Day School Company formed.

First school opened January 1, at Chelsea; there are now fifteen.... Girton College, Cambridge, incorporated. Hitchin College subsequently removed to it.... New b.a.s.t.a.r.dy act, pa.s.sed August 10, affording a greater measure of relief to unmarried mothers.

1873. Mrs. Na.s.sau Senior, appointed a.s.sistant inspector of workhouses, January; the first government appointment of a lady; made permanent, February, 1874.... First school-board election in Scotland, February (twenty ladies elected).... Second English school-board.... Custody of Infants act pa.s.sed, which enables a man, having a deed of separation from his wife, to give up the custody of the children to her if he chooses.

1874. Women's Peace and Arbitration Auxiliary of the London Peace Society formed, April.... Women's Protection and Provident League formed, July 8 (benefit societies and trades unions for working women).... Protection Orders given to wives in Scotland, July 19.... College for Working Women, Fitzroy street, London, opened October.... London School of Medicine for Women, opened October 12.

1875. A lady first elected as poor-law guardian (Miss Merington, in Kensington), April.... Albemarle Club opened for ladies and gentlemen, May 29.... Newnham College, Cambridge, opened....

Employment of Women Office, opened in Brighton.... Female clerkships in Post-Office Savings Bank.... Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland admitted women to examinations.... Madras Medical School opened to women.... First woman lawyer's office opened in London (Miss Orme).... Metropolitan and National Nursing a.s.sociation formed.... Women delegates from women's unions first admitted to Trades' Congress in Glasgow, October.

1876. Admission of women to Manchester New College, February 9.... First qualified woman pharmacist established in London (Miss Isabella Clarke).... Plan-tracing office for women opened (Miss Crosbie).... Employment of Women Office, opened in Glasgow.... Scholarship for women established in Bristol University College.... British Women's Temperance a.s.sociation commenced.... Pa.s.sing of the act, known as Russell-Gurney's act, enabling universities to admit women to degrees, August....

Resolutions of King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland to confer medical degrees on women; five ladies pa.s.sed their examinations and received degrees in the following spring.... A memorial, signed by 45,000 women, presented to the queen on behalf of the Bulgarians.

1877. Teachers, Training and Registration Society inaugurated, February 2.... Trinity College, London, decided to throw open its musical examinations to women.... St. Andrew's University offered "Literate in Arts" degrees to women.... A bill to amend the Married Women's Property Law (Scotland) pa.s.sed; came into force January 1, 1878.... International Congress on Public Morality met at Geneva, September.... Admission of women medical students to the Royal Free Hospital, October 1.... Manchester and Salford College for women (now affiliated to the Victoria University) opened, October.

1878. Society to extend the knowledge of law among women started.... Matrimonial Causes Amendment act pa.s.sed; a clause being inserted by Lord Penzance enabling magistrates to grant a judicial separation to women if brutally treated by their husbands, a maintenance to be given them, and the children to remain under their mother's care.... Admission of women to London University degrees and examinations, July 1.... Intermediate Education act, Ireland; partic.i.p.ation of girls in its benefits.

1879. Victoria University charter grants degrees to women....

Oxford, Somerville and Lady Margaret Halls opened, October....

Nine ladies elected on London school-board, November....

Pharmaceutical Society admits women as members, October.... Order of St. Katherine for nurses established.... School for wood-engraving and one for wood-carving established.

1880. Charter of Irish University gives degrees to women....

Demonstration of women in Manchester in favor of the suffrage, February 3; followed by London, Bristol and Nottingham in the same year.... Bill to give further protection to little girls under 13 pa.s.sed.... Mason College in Birmingham founded; equal facilities to girls and boys.... First lady B. A. in London University, October.... Melbourne University matriculates women, March 22.... The Burial bill gives women the right to conduct funeral services.... The House of Keys in the Isle of Man pa.s.sed women's suffrage for women who are owners of property, November 5.

1881. Suffrage bill in the Isle of Man received royal a.s.sent January 5; seven hundred women are electors; general election began March 21.... Cambridge University admits women students to formal examinations by a vote of 398 against 32, February 24....

Durham University votes that women may become members.

1881. Sydney University (New South Wales) admits women to matriculation and degrees.... New Zealand University confers t.i.tle of M. A. on a woman, August.... Poor-law Guardian a.s.sociation for promoting the election of ladies established, March; seven ladies elected in London.... Somerville Club for women opened.... Women clerks admitted to the civil service by open compet.i.tion.... Munic.i.p.al Franchise act for Scotland, pa.s.sed June 3; came into operation January 1, 1882.... Married Women's Property act for Scotland, pa.s.sed July 18.

1882. London University Convocation resolves to admit women as graduates, January 17.... Twelve women elected in London as poor-law guardians, April; fifteen in the country.... Married Women's Property act pa.s.sed by the Lords and brought down to the Commons May 22; pa.s.sed and returned to the Lords August 16; received royal a.s.sent August 18.... Addition to Munic.i.p.al Franchise act (Scotland) by inclusion of police burghs.... Women first voted in Scotland under the new act, November 8....

Appointment of women as registrars of births and deaths in four parishes.

1883. Married Women's Property act comes into operation January 1.... Appointment of Miss E. Shove as physician to female staff in post-office; first appointment by government of a woman....

Poor-law guardian elections, April; thirteen ladies in London, two in Scotland for the first time; thirteen in other towns in England.... Mr. Stansfeld's resolution against the Contagious Diseases acts carried in the House of Commons by a majority of 72, April 26; the acts consequently are suspended....

May.--Memorial to the Prime Minister signed by 110 independent Liberal members, asking that women's suffrage shall be included in the coming Reform bill.... Mr. Mason's resolution for women's suffrage thrown out by a majority of only 16.... Great conference of Liberal a.s.sociations at Leeds on parliamentary reform votes for woman suffrage, October 17, followed by similar votes at Edinburgh, November 16; Manchester, November 21; Bristol, November 26, and in many smaller places.... Guarantee-fund raised in Bombay for lady physicians and hospitals for women commenced; Calcutta University opened to women.

1884. Second reading of the bill for the Custody and Guardianship of children carried, March 26, by a majority of 134.... First lady, Mrs. Bryant, obtained degree of Doctor of Science in London University.... Nine ladies obtain B. A. degree in Royal Irish University.

1885. College of Surgeons, Ireland, opens its degrees to women.... Criminal-law Amendment Bill pa.s.sed in August, raising the age of protection for girls, and giving increased facilities for rescuing them from ruin.... Munic.i.p.al suffrage granted to women in Madras.... Miss Mason appointed inspector of workhouses by local government board, November.

FOOTNOTES:

[586] Signed by Superintendents Public Schools, A. C. Shortridge, Indianapolis, Alexander M. Gow, Evansville, Wm. H. Wiley, Terre Haute, Jas. McNeil, Richmond, J. H. Smart, Fort Wayne, Wm. Phelan, Laporte, Barnabas C. Hobbs, Bloomingdale; Thomas Holmes, president Union Christian College, Mrs. Thos. Holmes, Merom; Geo. P. Brown, princ.i.p.al high-school, Mrs. Geo. P. Brown, Jessie H. Brown, a.s.sistant-superintendent public schools, Prof. W. A. Bell, Prof. T.

Charles, Hon. Byron K. Elliott, Geo. Merritt, Mrs. George Merritt, Wm. Coughlen, Jno. S. Newman, president Merchants National Bank, Col. James B. Black, Jos. E. Perry, Dr. E. S. Newcomer, Mrs. S. E.

Newcomer, Col. Samuel Merrill, Franklin Taylor, Phebe M. Taylor, H.

H. Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, Dr. O. S. Runnels, Mrs. Dora C.

Runnels, Horace McKay, Thomas E. Chandler, David Gibson, Miss Mary Bradshaw, Dr. J. C. Walker, Indianapolis; Elias Hicks Swayne, Mahala M. Swayne, Richmond; Dr. Geo. M. Dakin, Mrs. Geo. M. Dakin, Laporte.

[587] Mrs. Hill was President of the San Francisco Woman Suffrage Society for three years prior to her death in 1884.