2000 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship
1998 Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89
1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1998 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1997 Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop
1996 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
1995 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
1995 Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77
1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1994 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
1994 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
1994 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
1994 Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi
1994 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1994 Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35
1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1993 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1993 M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85
1992 Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests
1992 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate
1992 Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
1992 Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61
1992 Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1992 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball Pennsylvania announcer for the Baltimore Orioles
1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate
1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1992 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1992 Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)
1992 Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
1992 U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi.
1991 Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year
1991 Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
1991 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
1991 Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
1991 Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
1991 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1990 Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42
1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general
1990 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
1989 New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman)
1989 Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Netherlands 1st female advisor of State, dies
1989 Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade
1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church
1989 Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)
1988 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)
1988 Janet B. Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1988 Divine, [Harris Milstead], female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies
1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)
1988 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1987 Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1987 Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
1987 Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
1987 Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
1987 Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1987 Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.
1987 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1986 Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1986 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1986 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1986 Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
1985 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs U.S. 3K female record (8:25.83)
1985 Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1985 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
1984 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)
1983 Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
1983 Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)
1983 1st female secretary of transportation, Elizabeth Dole, sworn-in
1983 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1982 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
1982 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice
1981 Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1981 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
1981 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)
1980 Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
1980 1st female state police graduates, New Jersey
1980 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1979 Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages
1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1978 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor
1978 Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts and Female), dies in New York at 76
1978 Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)
1978 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic)
1978 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds and 30")
1978 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1978 Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1978 Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps
1978 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
1977 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1977 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1976 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1976 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
1975 Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)
1975 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1974 Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 Tammy Holmes, born in Berkeley, California, female outfielder, Colo Silver Bullets
1974 Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies
1974 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1973 Christine Monge, born in San Francisco, California, female pitcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1973 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973 Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance California, female infielder, Silver Bullets
1973 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1972 Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder, Silver Bullets
1972 Laurie Shepard, Cordele, Georgia, female pitcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1972 Tamarie Ivie, born in Ananheim, California, female infielder, Colo Silver Bullets
1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1972 1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
1972 Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female U.S. rabbi
1972 Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer, Tampa Bay
1972 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1971 Alyson Habetz, Crowley, Louisiana, female pitcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1971 TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1971 Shae Sloan, Huntsville, Texas, female pitcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1971 Wendee Espinosa, born in Stockton, California, female outfielder, Silver Bullets
1971 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
1971 Pam Schaffrath, born in Chicago, Illinois, female catcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1971 Swiss men accept female suffrage
1971 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1970 Camille Spitaleri, born in Mountain View, California, female infielder, Silver Bullets
1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1970 Missy Cress, born in Burbank, California, female catcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1970 Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals
1970 Shannan Mitchem, born in Decatur, Georgia, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets
1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1970 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1970 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70
1969 Marcie Aguilar, born in Tucson, Arizona, female infielder, Colo Silver Bullets
1969 Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee, Florida, female pitcher, Silver Bullets
1969 Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1969 Kim Braatz, born in Santa Ana, California, female outfielder, Colo Silver Bullets
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track
1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
1969 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1968 Melissa Coombes, born in San Gabriel, California, female pitcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1968 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
1967 Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34
1967 Cara Coughenour, Sioux City, Iowa, female pitcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1967 Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)
1967 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1966 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1965 Stacy Sunny, San Bernadino California, female infielder, Colo Silver Bullets
1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
1965 Reina Olea, female jockey
1965 Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
1965 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1964 George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1964 Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1964 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1964 Bridget Fonda, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Scandal, Single White Female
1963 Michele McAnany, born in Los Angeles, California, female infielder, Colo Silver Bullets
1963 Julie Krone, born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, jockey, 1st female to win Belmont-93
1963 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
1963 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st U.S. black female judge
1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1962 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
1961 For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
1961 Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67
1961 Pat Dufficy, born in Westerly, Rhode Island, female catcher, Colo Silver Bullets
1961 Suzanna Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
1961 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1960 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1960 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1959 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1958 Jennifer Jason Leigh, [Morrow], LA Cal, actress, Single White Female
1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ")
1956 Female suffrage in Egypt
1955 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1953 Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation, Pakistan
1953 Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female asst sect of state
1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, Texas, actor, Single White Female, Thelma and Louise
1951 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
1949 GN Clark becomes 1st female U.S. treasurer
1948 Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70
1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy
1948 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1947 Camille Paglia, born in Endicott, New York, actress, Female Misbehavior, It's Pat
1947 Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier, 1993-
1944 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1943 Toni Tennille, Montgomery, Alabama, female Beachboy, Capt and Tennille
1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
1942 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1941 Barbet Schroeder, director, Barfly, Single White Female, More
1941 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1940 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1939 Germaine Greer, born in Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author, Female Eunich
1939 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1938 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1937 Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atl, dies at 40
1937 Joanna Russ, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Female Man, Alyx
1937 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1937 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-U.S. female lawyer
1936 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, Rep-D-NY, 1st female Democratic VP candidate, 1984
1935 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1933 Dianne Feinstein, 1st female mayor of San Francisco, Sen-D-Ca
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office
1933 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1931 Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1930 Barbara Harris, 1st U.S. Episcopal female bishop
1930 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
1929 Turkey introduces female suffrage
1929 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75
1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1928 British parliament accept female sufferage
1928 Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1927 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1926 Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
1925 Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section
1925 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming)
1924 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1923 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1922 Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator
1922 Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
1922 Jeanne Sauve, 1st female Governor-General, Canada, 1984-90
1921 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1920 T C Jones, Pennsylvania, female impersonator
1920 Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop, Methodist
1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1919 Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
1917 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor
1916 Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
1916 Norway approves active and passive female suffrage
1913 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C.
1912 Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
1912 Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author
1910 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
1910 World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
1908 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
1907 M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor
1907 Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician
1905 Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice
1905 Thelma Todd, [Alison Loyd], Lawrence, Massachusetts, actress, Dangerous Female
1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
1899 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney, NY
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1895 U.S. state Utah accepts female suffrage
1895 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
1893 State Colorado accept female suffrage
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., 1st with female suffrage
1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
1889 Belle Starr, U.S. female gangster, murdered at 40
1885 Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator, appointed
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and VP
1883 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator
1883 Julian Eltinge, Massachusetts, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
1883 Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof, Utrecht, 1917-52
1882 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1878 Karl Albiker, German sculptor, German Art, female nudes
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1878 U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage
1877 Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian female pilot
1876 Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1875 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member, SDAP, 1918-37
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1870 Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1861 Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
1860 Suzanna Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor and temperance leader
1854 Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1848 Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], U.S. female outlaw, wild west
1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1838 Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
1829 Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
1825 Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy, 1st ordained U.S. female minister
1805 Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1804 George Sand, born in France, female, novelist, Valentine, Le Figaro
1804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies
1795 James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist, Female Reader
1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
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