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Women history month

By gallegos77

  • 1776–1807

    1776–1807
    New Jersey grants women the vote in its state constitution.

  • 1637

    1637
    Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.

  • 1692

    1692
    The Salem Witch Trials are held in Salem, Massachusetts.

  • 1789

    1789
    1789: Abigail Adams makes plea to her husband: "Remember the ladies" in the new Constitution.

  • 1792

    1792
    1792: Sarah Pierce establishes first institution in America for higher education of women, in Litchfield, Connecticut.

  • February 15, 1820

    February 15, 1820
    February 15, 1820: Susan B. Anthony's birthday

  • 1838

    1838
    1838: Kentucky widows with children in school are granted "school suffrage," the right to vote in school board elections.

  • 1847

    1847
    1847: Maria Mitchell discovers a new comet, wins a medal from the King of Denmark.

  • 1848

    1848
    July 13, 1848: Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock are invited to tea at the home of Jane Hunt in Waterloo, New York. They decide to call a two-day meeting of women at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Seneca Falls to discuss women's rights.