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Women’s Rights

  • 8 Mar 1975

    The first International Women's Day was celebrated.

  • 20 Mar 1965

    The Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height wrote her first column in the African-American newspaper 'New York Amsterdam News.'

  • 28 May 1952

    The women of Greece were given the right to vote.

  • 28 Jan 1935

    Law No. 38 in Iceland was approved, making abortion legal.

  • 24 Mar 1921

    The world's first international women's sporting event began in Monaco.

  • 26 Aug 1920

    The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified, giving women the right to vote.

  • 6 Feb 1918

    In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 were granted the right to vote.

  • 10 Nov 1917

    41 Suffragists were arrested at the White House, Washington, D.C.

  • 20 Oct 1917

    American suffragist Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months in prison for obstructing traffic in Washington caused by the Women's Rights march she organized.

  • 23 Oct 1915

    More than 25,000 people marched down New York's 5th Avenue supporting women's suffrage.

  • 21 Aug 1913

    The first female students were enrolled at a University in Japan.

  • 21 Jan 1908

    New York City passed a law prohibiting women from smoking in public places.

  • 10 Oct 1903

    Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters founded the Women’s Social and Political Union.

  • 3 Nov 1896

    Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah became the first elected female State Senator in the United States.

  • 5 Nov 1895

    Utah State ratified the women's right to vote in their state constitution.

  • 28 Nov 1893

    Women voted in a general election for the first time in New Zealand.

  • 7 Nov 1893

    Colorado became the second US state to give women the right to vote.

  • 19 Sep 1893

    Women's right to vote in New Zealand was given Royal Assent.

  • 15 Feb 1879

    US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

  • 12 Feb 1870

    Utah became the second state to grant women the right to vote.

  • 20 Jan 1869

    Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.

  • 29 May 1851

    Black women's rights activist Sojourner Truth gave her famous speech 'Ain't I A Woman?' at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

  • 11 Mar 1850

    The Women's College of Pennsylvania, US opened – making it the 2nd female medical school in America.

  • 19 Jul 1848

    The Seneca Falls Convention became the first-ever US women's rights convention.

  • 21 Oct 1789

    Following the women's march on Versailles, The National Assembly declared martial law in France to prevent future uprisings.