1813 born in Bloomfield, New York

1833 marries Francis Wright, active abolitionist

1835 Francis Wright dies

1846 gives lecture in anatomy and female physiognomy using mannequin

1849 marries Thomas Davis, a Congressman

1853 founds first women's rights newspaper UNA

1871 publishes A History of the National Women's Rights Movement

1876 dies in Providence, Rhode Island. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivers eulogy

1815 born in New York City

1840 marries Henry Brewster Stanton anti-slavery activist .  Insists word 'obey' be dropped from ceremony .  They parent seven children, all but one will graduate from college

1848 organizes Women's Rights Convention

1851 begins close partnership with Susan B. Anthony

1855 appears before New York State legislature to speak on Married Women's Property Law

1863 organizes petition drive collecting 300,000 signatures to abolish slavery via Constitutional amendment

1866 runs for Congress, receives 24 votes

1868 along with Susan B. Anthony launches newspaper the Revolution

1869 forms National Woman Suffrage Association

1890 N.W.S.A merges with rival group American Woman Suffrage Association

1902 dies in New York City

1819 born in New York City

1840 marries Samuel Gridley Howe; an abusive husband with what we would refer to today as  'chauvinist' attitudes

1861 writes The Battle Hymn of the Republic after witnessing Civil War battle

1869 forms American Woman Suffrage Association

1870 introduces proposal for a national 'Mother's Day' to oppose war and conflict

1873 elected President Woman Preacher's Convention

1874 authors Sex and Education

1881 authors Modern Society

1910 dies in Newport, Rhode Island

1806 Noah Webster issues Dictionary of the English Language

1814 Francis Scott Key, Star-Spangled Banner

1818 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

1819 Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

1825 Fanny Wright, A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery

1826 James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

1839 Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

1844 Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers

1847 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

         Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

1848 Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

1851 Herman Melville, Moby Dick

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

1855 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species

1868 Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

1876 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1890 Emily Dickinson, Poems

1803 Louisiana Purchase

1812 War of 1812 begins

1820 The Missouri Compromise

1833 Britain prohibits slavery

1836 the fall of the Alamo

1838 Underground Railroad begins
Trail of Tears moves Cherokees out of Eastern United States

1857 Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case

1859 John Brown hanged

1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President

1861 American Civil War begins

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

1865 Thirteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution
         Civil War ends
         Lincoln killed

1869 Wyoming is first to allow women the right to vote

1872 Susan B. Anthony arrested for registering to vote

1880 Spanish American War

1882 Polygamy declared a federal crime

 1800 Alessandro Volta creates first electric battery

1824 Emma Willard opens first women's school with college level courses

1826 American Lyceum circuit begins

1833 Factory Act bans employment of children under 9

1834 Charles Babbage demonstrates "analytic engine"-the first computer
Oberlin, the first coeducational college, is chartered

1837 Samuel Morse invents telegraph

1848 Gold discovered in California

1861 Vassar, first college for women only, chartered

1866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

1868 James Redpath forms Redpath Lyceum Bureau

1874 John Heyl Vincent and Lewis Miller start Chautauqua movement

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

1880 George Eastman patents the Kodak camera

1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral
          Billy the Kid killed
          Clara Barton organizes American Red Cross

1889 Jane Addams opens Hull House

1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1896 First use of X-rays to treat breast cancer

1898 Chautauqua Press established; first book-a-month club