| Event |
Date |
| Great Reform Act |
1832 |
| First leaflet published on FEMALE SUFFRAGE by ANNE KNIGHT |
1847 |
| 2nd Reform Act |
1867 |
| Committee for Women's Suffrage, London |
1865 |
| 1st permanent women's suffrage society, Manchester |
1867 |
| NSWS founded |
1868 |
| 1st Public Meeting held on V4W, London |
1866 |
| Richard Pankhurst's Womens Suffrage Bill passed its 2nd reading |
1870 |
| Womens Suffrage Journal published |
1870 |
| London National Society 4 Womens Suffrage founded |
1871 |
| Central Committee of National Society for Womens Suffrage founded |
1872 |
| New Central Committee of National Society for Women's Suffrage founded |
1877 |
| Women Granted the Vote in ISLE of MAN |
1881 |
| 3rd REFORM ACT |
1884 |
| Central National Committee of Womens Suffrage formed |
1888 |
| Women's Franchise League formed |
1890 |
| *NUWSS founded* |
1897 |
| WSPU founded by Emmeline Pankhurst |
1904 |
| Christabel Pankhurst & Annie Kenney arrested for causing a disturbance |
1905 |
| Liberals Won a Landslide Election |
Jan 1906 |
| 1st Women's Parliament at Caxton Hall, London |
Feb 1907 |
| Women's Freedom League founded |
1907 |
| Women's suffrage Bill carried by 179 VOTES |
Feb 1908 |
| Women chained themselves to railings for the 1st time |
1908 |
| Beginning of organised heckling of Cabinet Ministers |
1908 |
| 1st Window Smashing |
1908 |
| 2nd reading of Electoral Reform Bill including V4W |
1909 |
| Suffragettes banned from Liberal Meetings |
1909 |
| First hunger strike and forcible feedings |
1909 |
| Concilliation Bill carried by 139 VOTES |
July 1910 |
| BLACK FRIDAY |
Nov 18th 1910 |
| SUffragettes resumed truce |
1911 |
| Census boycotted |
April, 1911 |
| 2nd Concilliation Bill debated |
May 1911 |
| Women's Coronation Procession of suffragettes and suffragists |
June 1911 |
| FAILURE of 2nd Concilliation Bill (resumed action by suffragettes) |
Nov, 1911 |
| 3rd Concilliation Bill failed 2nd reading |
1912 |
| Christabel Pankhurst fled to France |
1912 |
| Pethick Lawrences left WSPU |
1912 |
| Suffragette newspaper founded by the Pankhursts |
1912 |
| Letter Box damage began |
1912 |
| Amendment to franchise bill ruled out of order by the Speaker |
1913 |
| Lloyd George's country home firebombed; Golf greens ruined |
1913 |
| The Prisoner's Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act (Cat & Mouse Act) passed |
1913 |
| Death of Emily Davison sustained by injuries at Derby |
June, 1913 |
| ELFS split from the WSPU |
1914 |
| Mary Richardson slashed Rokeby Venus leading to closure of public galleries |
1914 |
| Britain declared war with Germany |
Aug, 1914 |
| Suffragettes suspended militancy and joined war effort |
1914 |
| Coalition Government formed |
1915 |
| Lloyd George became Prime Minister |
1916 |
| Speaker's Conference Established |
1916 |
| Representation of the People's Act allowed women over 30 to vote |
1918 |
| Constance Markiewic elected to Parliament but did not take her seat |
1918 |
| Nancy Astor became first women MP |
1918 |
| End of 1st WW |
Nov, 1918 |
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