Celebrating Women's History

Timeline, 1762-1896

4000 B.C.-30 A.D. | 1000-1200 | 1300-1718 | 1762-1896 | 1902-

Industrial Revolution begins c. 1750

1762

Catherine the Great became ruler of Russia.

1776

The American Revolution

1788

United States of America Constitution ratified and took affect.

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women is published.

1837

Queen Victoria began ruling Great Britain.

1843

Sojourner Truth lectured about suffrage and abolition.

1848

The first "Woman's Rights Convention" was held in Seneca Falls, New York.

1854

Florence Nightingale introduced nursing innovations.

Susan B. Anthony began her crusade for women's rights.

1856

Sewing machine invented.

1861-65

American Civil War

1871

Lucy Walker, an English mountaineer, is the first woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

1874

Sophia Jex-Blake establishes the London School of Medicine for Women.

Women's Christian Temperance Union founded to fight alcohol abuse in the United States.

1879

Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman lawyer to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

1881

American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.

1890

Louise Blanchard Bethune becomes the first woman elected to full membership in the American Institute of Architects.

1893

New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote.

1896

The first women's intercollegiate basketball game in the United States is held, with Stanford University defeating the University of California at Berkeley.

Sources:
Chronology of Women Worldwide, Gale.
Women's Firsts, Gale.
Women's Chronology, Gale.