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1862
In Sweden, single women who pay taxes win the right to vote in municipal elections.

1863
Mary Edwards Walker becomes a surgeon for the Union army in the American Civil War. In 1865 she receives a Congressional Medal of Honor. It is revoked shortly before her death and then reawarded posthumously.

c. 1863
More than 2,000 warriors form the Dahomey women's army, all of them technically wives of the king. Using bows, guns, and knives, they fight to capture prisoners.

1865
Sarah Edmonds publishes her autobiography, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, describing her undercover work disguised as a man named Frank Thompson.

1865
The University of Zürich becomes the first European university to admit women.

1867
In Britain, the first petition for woman suffrage is presented to Parliament.

1867
In St. Andrews, Scotland, the Ladies' Golf Club is founded. 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
Married women in Britain gain the right to own property. 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
In Japan, primary education for girls as well as boys is required by law. 1872
Susan B. Anthony leads 15 women to vote in Rochester, New York. She is arrested two weeks later.

1874
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is founded.

1876
Tokyo Women's Normal School trains women as elementary teachers.

1877
Eudora Clark Atkinson is the first woman superintendent of the first women's state reformatory in the United States.

1877
Chilean women are allowed to attend university.

1877
Mother Jones helps lead the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, railroad strike.

1879
American Mary Baker Eddy heads the newly created First Church of Christ, Scientist.

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.

1884
Wimbledon holds its first women's singles championship; Maud Watson wins.

1886
Women in Palestine agitate for the right to vote.

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.

1889
Wyoming, a U.S. territory, approves a constitution that is the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women.

1890
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is founded.

1890
Alice Stone Blackwell and others oversee the merger of two older organizations to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

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.

1892
In Massachusetts, Senda Berenson introduces basketball at Smith College for women. 1

893
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.

1893
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine opens in Baltimore, Maryland. The women's committee that funds the school insists that men and women be admitted equally. \

1896
In Zimbabwe, legends hold, the ancestral spirit Ambuya Nehanda enters the body of a woman, who then starts a revolt against the British.

1896
The U.S. Geological Survey hires its first woman, geologist Florence Bascom.

1897
Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, commemorating 60 years as Great Britain's monarch.

1897
Americans Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst found the National Congress of Mothers, later called the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). 1

898
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 labour and sweatshops and in favour 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.

1901
Japan's Women's College is founded in Tokyo. Many of the women who graduate help to establish feminism in Japan.

1902
Ida M. Tarbell begins publishing The History of the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine. Her exposé will contribute to the breakup of the company by a U.S. Supreme Court order in 1911.

1902
With the passage of the Midwives Act, the British Parliament requires midwives to be licensed.

1903
Mary Morton Kimball Kehew, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Jane Addams, and other middle-class reformers found the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) in order to help working women organize.

1904
In French law, women are no longer permanent minors.

1904
Lillian D. Wald, Florence Kelley, and other reformers establish the National Child Labor Committee to work for legislation prohibiting child labour in the United States.

1904
Helen Keller, who is deaf and blind, graduates cum laude from Radcliffe College.

1905
English socialist economist Beatrice Webb becomes a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws.

1905
Mohtaram Eskandari starts the Union of Patriotic Women, Iran's first organization for women. Religious leaders break up the first meeting and burn some of the women alive.

1906
Women in Finland win the right to vote.

1906
Russian revolutionary Mariya Spiridonova assassinates General Luzhenovsky.

1906
Anarchist Emma Goldman begins publishing Mother Earth magazine.

1907
Miina Sillanpää is elected to the Finnish Parliament.

1907
Margaret Slocum Sage donates $10 million to endow the Russell Sage Foundation to sponsor research to improve social conditions in the United States.

1908
Hannah Kent Schoff organizes the International Conference on Child Welfare in Washington, D.C.

1908
A group of women storm the British Parliament demanding suffrage. Twenty-four of them are arrested.

1908
In Muller v. State of Oregon the U.S. Supreme Court sustains a state law limiting the workday for Oregon's women workers to 10 hours.

1908
The government of Iran institutes a plan to improve women's literacy.