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