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Key Dates
* Votes for Women - UK * Do you know your key dates? As level
| 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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