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Food and Drugs Act
prevents the adulteration of food. The Nightingale School of Nursing is founded. -
The World's First Underground Railway opens in London
Using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. Queens institute is founded in London for the first industrial training of women. -
Girls are admitted into Cambirdge local examinations
and Barbra Bodichon forms womens suffrage committee -
Infant Custody Act
Provides a possibility that a mother can obtain a child custody even if she committed adultlery -
Women Physicians
be liscensed to practice -
Royal Free Hospital
admits women as medical students -
FIrst womens colleges at Oxford
Pharmaceutical society admits women as members -
Second Married Womens Property Act
Entitles married women to retain seperate ownership of any properrty they own before their marriage