Today in Women's Suffrage History
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Civil Rights - Communism - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Trotskyism
Historical Events
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1777-07-08 - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
1867-05-20 - Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
1867-08-15 - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1869-05-15 - National Woman Suffrage Assn forms
1869-11-24 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
1869-12-10 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1872-06-18 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1878-01-10 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
1884-03-08 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1890-07-10 - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
1893-11-07 - State Colorado accept female suffrage
1894-02-05 - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
1894-08-02 - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1895-11-05 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1902-02-11 - Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1902-07-12 - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1903-12-09 - Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1906-03-07 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1907-02-07 - The Mud March was the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1907-02-13 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
1907-06-14 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
1910-09-18 - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
1910-11-06 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911-04-30 - Portugal approves woman suffrage
1912-11-05 - Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
1913-03-03 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1913-04-03 - British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1913-06-04 - Suffragette Emily Davison throws himself in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby
1913-09-16 - 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1914-03-10 - Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1914-05-06 - British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
1915-06-05 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916-04-08 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1916-06-06 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1916-10-17 - Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
1916-11-05 - Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
1919-06-04 - Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1919-07-10 - Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
1919-09-18 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
1920-02-08 - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
1920-08-26 - 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
1921-06-11 - Brazil adopts women suffrage
1922-12-29 - Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1923-04-19 - New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1925-03-02 - Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1929-12-06 - Turkey introduces female suffrage
1931-10-01 - Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1937-04-30 - The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1944-10-05 - Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1951-09-20 - Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1952-04-09 - Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1953-11-18 - Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1956-02-27 - Female suffrage in Egypt
1966-06-26 - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1966-11-20 - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1969-09-14 - Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1971-02-07 - Swiss men accept female suffrage
2005-05-16 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2005-12-04 - Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
Famous Birthdays
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1811-11-29 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1818-05-27 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
1818-08-13 - Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn)
1820-02-15 - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
1821-12-19 - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader
1847-02-14 - Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
Famous Deaths
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1902-10-26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1913-06-04 - Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
1958-02-13 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
