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1825 Hannah Lord Montague- Made the first detachable shirt collar.
1837 The first women's only college was opened in the US: Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts.
1846 Sarah Bagley- First woman telegrapher.
1847 Charlotte Bronte's book Jane Eyre was published.
1849 Harriet Tubman- Escaped from slavery in Maryland.
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell- first US woman to earn her medical degree.
1850 The first women's medical school opened-the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
1851 Sojourner Truth- At the Women's Rights Convention in Ohio,gave her "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
1858 Saint Bernadette of Lourdes- Was the first to have visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, Frances. This lead to the building of a shrine.
1861 Sally Tompkins-- Only commissioned female officer in the Confederate Army.
1862 Julia Ward Howe- Her poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
1866 Lucy Hobbs- First woman to graduate from dental school.
1867 Emily Greene Balch- First woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton- First woman to testify before Congress.
1869 Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1869 The American Women Suffrage Association was organized in Cleveland.
1869 Amy Bradley- First woman to supervise a public school system.
1870 The Young Women's Christian Association was founded.
1872 Victoria Woodhull- first woman nominated to be president by the National Equal Rights party.
1872 Susan B. Anthony- was fined $100 for trying to vote in a presidential election.
1873 First women's prison run by women opened at the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls
1875 Edna Kanouse- gave birth to the first quintuplets in America. Sadly, all five boys died shortly after.
1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood- First woman lawyer admitted to appearbefore the US Supreme Court.
1881 Clara Barton- Founded the American Red Cross.
1885 Mary Gartside- First person to undergo a successful appendectomy.
1887 Susanna Medora Salter- First woman to be elected mayor of a US city (Argonia, Kansas).
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean- First baby placed in an incubator.
1889 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane)- went around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes.
1890 Alice Sanger- First female White House Staffer.
1893 New Zealand was the first country to allow all the women citizens to vote.
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon- first female senator (Utah)
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