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Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
Anne Hutchinson was an important participant in the Antinomian Controvers. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth became the first licensed physician. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth became the first licensed physician. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth became the first licensed physician. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth's spontaneous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech electrifies the woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. -
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
The Una premiers in Providence, Rhode Island, edited by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. With a masthead declaring it to be "A Paper Devoted to the Elevation of Woman," it is acknowledged as the first feminist newspaper of the woman's rights movement. -
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. -
11th National Women's Convention
Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention is held. The American Equal Rights Association is formed at the end of the convention, and the members pledge to achieve suffrage for both women and black Americans. -
"The Revolution"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution, which becomes one of the most important radical periodicals of the women's movement, although it circulates for less than three years. Its motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!" -
National Women's Party
The National Woman's Party is founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as an auxiliary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for the exclusive purpose of securing passage of a federal amendment. Their efforts revive the moribund issue. Their first office is at 1420 F Street, Washington, D.C.N -
Margaret Sanger
Police close down Margaret Sanger's birth-control clinic. -
National Women's Party #2
National Woman's Party picketers appear in front of the White House holding aloft two banners: "Mr. President, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage?" and "How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty?" Sentinels remain stationed there permanently regardless of weather or violent public response, with hourly changes of shift. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is quietly signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, granting women the right to vote. Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt summarized the effort involved in securing passage of the 19th Amendment:
"To get the word 'male' in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of the country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign... During that time they were forced to conduct fifty-six campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage -
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is inaugurated as the first woman governor in the United States. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the American civil rights movement. -
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the third woman to hold the post of Secretary of State. -
Michelle Obama
The first African-American woman to be First Ladu
