| 1900 to 1909 |
|
| German women demand higher education |
March -
1900 |
| First time in Olympic Games |
July -
1900 |
| UK women's trade union meets |
October
- 1900 |
| First communal vote, Norway |
December
- 1901 |
| Feet-binding banned in China |
February
- 1902 |
| Textile workers call for votes for women |
February
- 1902 |
| Glasgow barmaids win ruling |
May -
1902 |
| Prussia forbids political grouping |
May -
1902 |
| Get vote in Connecticut elections |
September - 1903 |
| Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst founds society |
October
- 1903 |
| Hospital for women in Waterloo |
October
- 1903 |
| Norwegion parliament blocks women's vote |
November
- 1903 |
| First to win Nobel prize : Marie Curie |
December
- 1903 |
| Pope attacks low-cut dresses |
January
- 1904 |
| Women's suffrage bill forced out, London |
May -
1905 |
| First suffragettes to be imprisoned |
October
- 1905 |
| Bertha von Suttner wins Nobel Peace prize |
December
- 1905 |
| Participate in British election campaign |
February
- 1906 |
| Women over 24 get the vote in Finland |
March -
1906 |
| Urged not to play "rough sports" |
March -
1906 |
| Disrupt Parliament as motion is blocked |
April -
1906 |
| Top suffragettes meet British premier |
June -
1906 |
| Banned from "dangerous sport" in Britain |
June -
1906 |
| Eleven Suffragettes jailed |
October
- 1906 |
| Keir Hardie's female emancipation bill |
November
- 1906 |
| Suffragettes on hunger strike |
December
- 1906 |
| Women's education under Persian Shah |
January
- 1907 |
| Suffragettes clash with police; arrests |
February
- 1907 |
| Finns elect women MPs, first in world |
March -
1907 |
| Hardie's bill is defeated |
March -
1907 |
| Women's Labour League first conference |
May -
1907 |
| Employed equally in Austrian universities |
August -
1907 |
| German Women's Congress anti-militarism |
August -
1907 |
| Suffragettes drown out Asquith's speech |
November
- 1907 |
| Pre-marital affidavits on good character |
December
- 1907 |
| Suffragettes raid six ministers' homes' |
January
- 1908 |
| New York woman arrested for smoking |
January
- 1908 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst tells of prison life |
February
- 1908 |
| "Women's Parliament" meets |
February
- 1908 |
| Denmark chooses universal suffrage |
April -
1908 |
| Automatic divorce law in France |
June -
1908 |
| 200,000 support suffragettes at rally |
June -
1908 |
| Barmaids banned, New Zealand |
January
- 1909 |
| Desertion not grounds for divorce |
February
- 1909 |
| Russian prosecutor stops woman barrister |
November
- 1909 |
| French Law favours pregnant women |
November
- 1909 |
| Emancipation heroine in Shaw's play |
December
- 1909 |
| 1910 to 1919 |
|
| Divorce too expensive for poor, Britain |
November
- 1909 |
| Divorce Commission wants equal treatment |
November
- 1912 |
| Mrs Pankhurst charged with bomb attack |
February
- 1913 |
| Russian government bars women lawyers |
February
- 1913 |
| International Women's Peace Conference |
April -
1913 |
| Why women dress up, by psychiatrist |
May -
1913 |
| Emil Dawson, first woman magistrate, UK |
September - 1913 |
| Woman in split skirt arrested in London |
July -
1913 |
| Women are inferior, says Almroth Wright |
October
- 1913 |
| First woman to do aerial loop- the- loop |
January
- 1914 |
| Admitted to Turkish universities |
February
- 1914 |
| Mary Richardson slashes Velazquez art |
March -
1914 |
| Problems of women factory workers, UK |
July -
1914 |
| Queen starts war "Work for Women" fund |
September - 1914 |
| Sewing guilds to make clothes for war |
November
- 1914 |
| Government wants war workers, equal pay |
March -
1915 |
| Special army battalion created |
March -
1915 |
| International Socialists call for peace |
March -
1915 |
| Can apply to be bus, tram conductors |
October
- 1915 |
| Factory workers double production |
November
- 1915 |
| First fully employed, Scotland Yard |
November
- 1915 |
| Two million more employed in Britain |
January
- 1916 |
| 400,000 to till fields, plan |
February
- 1916 |
| British government promises equal pay |
February
- 1916 |
| Committee blasts "extravagant dresses" |
March -
1916 |
| Women dockers strike over male prejudice |
March -
1916 |
| To receive Military Medal |
June -
1916 |
| Queen Mary opens Women's Hospital |
July -
1916 |
| Dr Mary Scharlieb says whores cause VD |
October
- 1916 |
| First birth control clinic, New York |
October
- 1916 |
| First woman member of US Congress |
November
- 1916 |
| 3.2 million work outside home, Britain |
November
- 1916 |
| Women taxi drivers; non-military scheme |
February
- 1917 |
| First women's battalion, Russia |
June -
1917 |
| 200,000 work on land in wartime Britain |
September - 1917 |
| Labour Parry educates and organises women |
October
- 1917 |
| Dr Anderson, first UK woman doctor, dies |
December
- 1917 |
| Marie Stopes on sex and birth control |
July -
1918 |
| Million women factory-workers, USA |
August -
1918 |
| London Underground strike for equal pay |
August -
1918 |
| Revolutionary attacks Lenin; he survives |
August -
1918 |
| Women railway workers settle dispute |
September - 1918 |
| Commons votes to allow women MPs |
October
- 1918 |
| 100 women police patrols, London |
November
- 1918 |
| Vote in British election for first time |
December
- 1918 |
| 17 women among candidates; one elected |
December
- 1918 |
| Nationalist Moslem women protest, Egypt |
March -
1919 |
| 1.2 million more worked during War |
March -
1919 |
| Nancy Astor is first woman MP |
November
- 1919 |
| Sex Disqualification Removal Bill passed |
December
- 1919 |
| First woman bar student, Lincoln's Inn |
December
- 1919 |
| 1920-1929 |
|
| Woman picket British embassy for Ireland |
April -
1920 |
| France beats England at women's football |
May -
1920 |
| Pope cononises Joan of Arc |
May -
1920 |
| International Feminist Congress, Geneva |
June -
1920 |
| First female jurors in Divorce Court UK |
January
- 1921 |
| Unemployment Benefits raised |
February
- 1921 |
| First UK birth control clinic opens |
March -
1921 |
| Pope Pius XI attacks "immodest" dress |
March -
1922 |
| Massachusetts public offices opened |
April -
1922 |
| Less hardship for divorced women in bill |
May -
1922 |
| Dr Ivy Williams, first called to bar |
May -
1922 |
| First woman president of Co-operative |
June -
1922 |
| First congress, Feminine Athletics |
August -
1922 |
| Women get equal citizenship rights, US |
September - 1922 |
| Coco Chapel's new liberated fashions |
February
- 1923 |
| Lords' coercion ruling, Britain |
February
- 1923 |
| Matrimonial Causes Bill; equal divorces |
March -
1923 |
| First woman admitted to Academia Francais |
April -
1923 |
| First broadcast of BBC's "Woman's Hour" |
May -
1923 |
| Mrs Hilton Philipson is third woman MP |
June -
1923 |
| Divorce husbands for adultery in new law |
June -
1923 |
| First to practise at Old Bailey |
February
- 1924 |
| Late night working banned, US Court |
March -
1924 |
| YWCA say "dress to succeed" |
May -
1924 |
| Catholic women's group pro-modest dress |
July -
1924 |
| Dr Russell warns of drugs and tobacco |
February
- 1926 |
| Mussolini shocked by Violet Gibson shot |
April -
1926 |
| Guild wants no strikes or lockouts |
April -
1926 |
| Can be elected to public office, India |
June -
1926 |
| 100,000 in London peace march |
June - 1926 |
| First to swim Channel (breaks record) |
August -
1926 |
| Italian women cannot hold public office |
October
- 1926 |
| Short hair and "avant-garde" bobs are in |
September - 1927 |
| First women-only horse race, Newmarket |
October
- 1927 |
| Hall's "Well of Loneliness" on lesbians |
December
- 1928 |
| Abolition of veil sparks Afghan revolt |
December
- 1928 |
| Given limited divorce rights in Egypt |
March -
1929 |
| Thirteen elected in British general election
|
May -
1929 |
| First UK minister : Margaret Bondfield |
June -
1929 |
| World Congress on Women's Work, Berlin |
June -
1929 |
| 1930 to 1939 |
|
| Agree retirement on marriage |
January
- 1930 |
| First to fly solo, Britain to Australia |
April -
1930 |
| Trades unionists protest at "invasion" |
June -
1930 |
| 476,041 women unemployed in Britain |
August -
1930 |
| Feminists condemn new long skirt fashion |
March -
1931 |
| Civil service opens to women |
July -
1931 |
| Elizabeth Scott's Shakespeare Theatre |
April -
1932 |
| Mildred Didrikson breaks Olympic records |
August -
1932 |
| Dietrich trend : menswear for women |
May -
1933 |
| None in new Nazi Reichstag, Germany |
November
- 1933 |
| Women Wimbledon players may wear shorts |
May - 1934 |
| Fourth Women's World Games; German triumph |
August -
1934 |
| Polish conscription for men and women |
September - 1934 |
| New trend : slimming exercises to music |
October
- 1935 |
| Laura Knight, first woman in Royal Academy |
February
- 1936 |
| First BBC women announcers |
May -
1936 |
| Beryl Markham, first Atlantic women solo |
September - 1936 |
| Marriage Bill widens grounds for divorce |
November
- 1936 |
| Turkey to conscript woman in wartime |
January
- 1937 |
| First woman owner to win Derby |
June -
1937 |
| Miss M. J. Ahern manages John Lewis |
February-
1938 |
| Dodds new drug to ease menopause |
December-
1938 |
| Women fellow at male Oxford college |
May -
1939 |
| Women's League of Health and Beauty UK |
June -
1939 |
| Women's Auxiliary Air Force formed UK |
July -
1939 |
| Women teachers in uk allowed to marry |
March -
1944 |
| UK women teachers to get same pay as men |
March -
1944 |
| New homes in UK to be fit for housewives |
July -
1944 |
| Queen Elizabeth praises war work, UK |
December
- 1944 |
| First GI brides leave UK for USA |
January
- 1946 |
| Single women May become diplomats, UK |
March - 1946 |
| Vote for first time in Japanese election |
April -
1946 |
| UK minister advocates more women in work |
June -
1947 |
| UK women asked to avoid longer skirts |
September - 1947 |
| Woman manager of Shakespeare Theatre, UK |
February
- 1948 |
| Women's Service Bill passed, UK |
February
- 1948 |
| Women's Royal Air Force formed, UK |
February
- 1948 |
| Women's Royal Army Corps formed, UK |
February
- 1948 |
| Penson is first UK woman vice-chancellor |
June -
1948 |
| WRAF and WRAC incorporated in UK forces 2 |
April -
199 |
| Lords to admit peeresses, UK |
July -
1949 |
| "The Second Sex", de Beauvoir, published |
December
- 1949 |
| 1950 to 1969 |
|
| Banned from reading, BBC news |
January
- 1951 |
| "Average UK housewife works 15 hour day |
July -
1951 |
| Education pioneer Maria Montessori dies |
May -
1952 |
| Commons votes for women's equal pay |
May -
1952 |
| Eva Peron dies, Argentina's heroine |
July -
1952 |
| First publicised sex change : Christine |
December
- 1952 |
| First woman to win Welsh Bardic Crown |
August -
1953 |
| First as Tory minister, Horsbrugh |
September - 1953 |
| Equal pay for civil servants |
January
- 1955 |
| Burnham committee -equal teachers' pay |
March -
1955 |
| UK Lords reforms : life peers and women |
October
- 1957 |
| Bishop:working mothers "family enemy' |
March -
1958 |
| Christabel Pankhurst, suffragist. dies |
March -
1958 |
| 14 women life peers |
July -
1958 |
| Warnings on overuse of sedatives |
November
- 1958 |
| Lead Cato Manor unrest, South Africa |
June -
1959 |
| New MPs Margaret Thatcher, Judith Hart |
October
- 1959 |
| Mrs Bandaranaike, first woman premier |
July -
1960 |
| Suffragist Estelle Sylvia Pankurst dies |
September - 1960 |
| Contraceptive pill goes on sale in UK |
January
- 1961 |
| First Mothercare shop opens, UK |
September - 1961 |
| Birth control pill available on NHS, UK |
December
- 1961 |
| First woman judge in High Court' UK |
October
- 1962 |
| Tereshkova (USSR) first woman in space |
June -
1963 |
| Oral contraceptive on prescription, UK |
June -
1963 |
| Woman broadcaster reads TV news in Wales |
August -
1963 |
| Woman completes solo round-world flight |
April -
1964 |
| Death of Nancy Astor, first UK woman MP |
May -
1964 |
| First Brook Advisory Centre opens, UK |
July -
1964 |
| First woman High Court judge, UK |
August -
1965 |
| First woman to train racehorses, UK |
July -
1966 |
| Birth-control pioneer M. Sanger dies |
September - 1966 |
| Twiggy is rising fashion star |
December
- 1966 |
| The Abortion Bill becomes law, UK |
October
- 1967 |
| Ford machinists' equal pay strike, UK |
June -
1968 |
| Epidural promises painless childbirth |
September - 1968 |
| First sextuplets born in Britain |
October
- 1968 |
| Pregnancy Advisory Service launched, UK |
October
- 1968 |
| First abortion clinic opens in Londonn |
October
- 1968 |
| Human egg made fertile in test tube, UK |
February
- 1969 |
| Women workers at Ford (UK) win equal pay |
February
- 1969 |
| Lloyd's of London to admit women |
February
- 1969 |
| Irene Hanson gives birth to quins, UK |
November
- 1969 |
| 1970 to 1979 |
|
| Bill to give women equal pay, UK |
February
- 1970 |
| First women generals in US Army |
May -
1970 |
| Methodists to admit women ministers, UK |
June -
1970 |
| Missiles thrown at Miss World contest |
November
- 1970 |
| "The Female Eunuch" published |
December
- 1970 |
| Women win the vote in Switzerland |
February
- 1971 |
| Liechtenstein refuses women the vote |
February
- 1971 |
| UK's biggest women's lib |
March - 1971 |
| Allowed on UK Stock Exchange floor |
February
- 1973 |
| UK plans Equal Opportunities Commission |
September - 1973 |
| Dalkon Shield IUD taken off market, US |
May -
1974 |
| First as leader of a UK political party |
February
- 1975 |
| Two women try to kill Ford on two occasions |
September - 1975 |
| State-sponsored maternity pay, UK |
October
- 1975 |
| International Women's Year ends |
December
- 1975 |
| Sex Discrimination Act, UK; employment |
December
- 1975 |
| Equal Pay Act, UK; equal opportunities |
December
- 1975 |
| UK's only big women's hospital to close |
February
- 1976 |
| Northern Irish women's peace movement |
August -
1976 |
| First as Dartmouth Naval College cadets |
September - 1976 |
| First as jockey in Grand National |
April -
1977 |
| Red "La Passionaria" returns to Spain |
May -
1977 |
| Peace Movement women win Nobel prize |
October
- 1977 |
| Naomi James in world sailing record |
June -
1978 |
| Pelletier, first French Minister for Women |
September - 1978 |
| Israel's woman premier Golda Meir dies |
December
- 1978 |
| US feminists upset at wife-rape verdict |
December
- 1978 |
| Teheran women protest at Islamic strictures |
March -
1979 |
| International Women's Day protests |
March -
1979 |
| Mrs Thatcher, first woman premier of UK |
May -
1979 |
| First woman Prime Minister of Portugal |
July -
1979 |
| Grate Weitz breaks 2.5 hour marathon |
October
- 1979 |
| 1980 to 1988 |
|
| Belfast peace woman Maguire dies |
January
- 1980 |
| More UK women work than rest of Europe |
January
- 1980 |
| Lung cancer kills many women in US |
January
- 1980 |
| Icelands first woman premier |
June -
1980 |
| Iranians protest about Islamic dress |
July -
1980 |
| First Norwegian woman prime minister |
February
- 1981 |
| Brown first woman to cox Oxford boat team |
April -
1981 |
| First woman Supreme Court Judge, O'Connor |
July -
1981 |
| Church of England for women as deacons |
November
- 1981 |
| 20,000 women encircle Greenham Common against
Cruise |
December
- 1982 |
| First woman trainer to win National, UK |
April -
1983 |
| Sally Ride is first US woman in space |
June -
1983 |
| First 3 woman head of major union, UK |
March -
1984 |
| Bailiffs clear main Greenham peace camp |
April -
1984 |
| G. Ferraro runs for US vice-president |
July -
1984 |
| UK High Court grants Greenham eviction |
September - 1984 |
| Church of England approves women deacons |
July -
1985 |
| 10,000 attend rights conference, Kenya |
July -
1985 |
| Death of feminist Simone de Beauvoir |
April -
1986 |
| UK synod votes for women's ordination |
February
- 1987 |
| Surrogate mothers not parents : US judge |
March -
1987 |
| Plans for ordination of women published |
June -
1988 |
| Synod on ordination of women |
July -
1988 |
| Anglican bishops vote on women priests |
August -
1988 |
| First woman bishop elected in America |
September - 1988 |
