1971 Event Swiss men accept female suffrage 1969 Event Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage 1966 Event Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage 1966 Event Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland 1956 Event Female suffrage in Egypt 1953 Event Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage 1951 Event Swiss males votes against female suffrage 1944 Event South Carolina rejects black suffrage 1931 Event Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage 1929 Event Turkey introduces female suffrage 1925 Event Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage 1923 Event New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers 1922 Event Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage 1921 Event Brazil adopts women suffrage 1920 Event 19th amendment passes - women's suffrage granted 1920 Event Swiss men vote against women's suffrage 1919 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage 1919 Event Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage 1919 Event Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill 1916 Event Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage 1916 Event Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage 1916 Event Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage 1916 Event Norway approves active and passive female suffrage 1914 Event British House of Lords rejects women suffrage 1913 Event 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage 1913 Event Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C. 1912 Event Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage 1911 Event Portugal approves woman suffrage 1910 Event SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage 1910 Event 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 1906 Event Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor 1903 Event Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage 1902 Event Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage 1902 Event Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels 1895 Event U.S. state Utah accepts female suffrage 1894 Event Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter 1894 Event Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms 1893 Event State Colorado accept female suffrage 1890 Event Wyoming becomes 44th state of U.S., 1st with female suffrage 1878 Event U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage 1872 Event Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall 1870 Event 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed 1869 Event Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st) 1869 Event American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) 1869 Event National Woman Suffrage Association forms 1867 Event 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England 1867 Event British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage 1867 Event Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto 1821 Birthday Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader 1818 Birthday Lucy Blackwell-Stone, U.S. abolitionist, U.S. Woman's Suffrage Association 1811 Birthday Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer 1777 Event Vermont becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
