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1490 BC Queen Hatshepsut- Crowned herself King.
1200 BC Fu Hao- consort to emperor Wu Ding, she was an esteemed warrior who led military expeditions.
600 BC Ishtar, Goddess of Love- from the Assyrian Empire, was believed to be so powerful that they sent her statue to Egypt to help an ailing king.
300 BC Dana or Danu- Chief Goddess of Ancient Ireland, mother of the People of Dana who were a tribe of divine beings. In later times they were demoted to mere fairies.
39 Trung Trac and Trung Nhi- two Vietnamese sisters who lead the first revolt in Southeast Asia against China.
50 Maria the Jewess- Establishes alchemy. She is also known as Maria Prophetissa and Miriam the Prophetess.
593 Suiko- is the first Japanese empress to receive recognition from China. During her 35 year reign, Buddhism took root.
7th Century Mayans use a 260 day calendar based on the length of a woman's gestation period.
612 Lady Zac-Kuk- ascended the throne of the Mayan Empire at Palenque in the Yucatan.
11th Century Lady Murasaki Shikibu- Wrote the earliest novel on record.
1034 Zoe- Byzantine empress who poisoned her husband, Romanus III and then married epileptic Michael IV Paphiagonian.
1040 Lady Godiva- rode naked through the streets of Coventry to convince her husband to abolish the heavy taxes that oppressed the citizens.
1405 Christine de Pisan- wrote The Book of the City of the Ladies in attempt to record the history of women.
1542 Catherine Howard- was executed for committing adultery. She was the fifth wife of Henry VIII.
1553 Lady Jane Grey- was queen of England for 13 days before being beheaded.
1553 Mary I- (aka Bloody Mary) became queen of England.
1559 Elizabeth I- Crowned queen of England.
1647 A "witch" was executed for the first time in the United States.
1650 Anne Bradstreet- First published poet in American History.
1678 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia- First woman to receive a doctorate. She received this degree in Philosophy at the University of Padua.
1773 Phillis Wheatley- First African-American to publish a book.
1784 Marie Thible- First woman to fly in a hot-air balloon.
1793 Marie Antoinette- was beheaded.
1793 Catherine Lidfield Greene- Proposed the idea of the Cotton Gin,financed it, and made the final changes in it. Eli Whitney received all the credit.
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