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Birth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Johnstown,NY -
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Elizabeth's brother dies
Elizabeth's brother dies and she tries to help her father by trying to be a replacement. She even got a good education like her brother. -
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Graduates from Jamestown Academy
Elizabeth graduated high school sometime in 1830 -
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Graduates from Troy Female Seminary
She attended Troy Academy seminary from 1830 to 1833 -
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Married Henry Brewster
Henry Brewster and Elizabeth get married against her father's wishes. They go on a wedding journey in London. -
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Moved from Boston to Seneca Falls
Elizabeth decides to change the women's roles in society because she doesnt like the way the community works. -
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Leads the fist women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
Only 4 women show up for the convention. This Convention is where she presented the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments that she wrote. -
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Meets Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth and Susan meet and they become partners in their figth for Women's RIghts. -
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Leads the Women's State Temperance Society
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Begin Women's Rights Campaign
Elizabeth and Susan started their campaign by trying to expand New York's Married Women's Property Law of1848 -
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Seventh Child is born
Robert, their last child, was unplanned and a surprise to Elizabeth at the age of fourty four. -
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Gave a speech to New York Legislature
After giving her speech the New York Married Women Property Law of 1848 gave them more rights which became the Married Women's Property Law of 1860. -
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Helps establish American Equal Rights Association
This association was to get voting rights for African Americans and women. -
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Elizabeth and Susan publish The Revolution
This was a women's rights paper. Elizabeth was the main writer and editor, and Susan was the publisher and business manager. The paper was a financial failure but it was a political success, giving them a place to voice their opinions. -
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Abandon hope, change focus
The pair abandon hope in suffrage from the New Departure when the Supreme Court declared that voting was not a given privilege in the case Minor v. Happersett. They decide to change their focus to National Women's Suffrage Association on a campaign to get women's suffrage -
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NWSA's amendment
Elizabeth writes and submits the NWSA's proposed amendment. The amendment was submitted to the U.S. senate and was brought up in every congress session for the next 40 years. -
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Wrote the first 3 volumes of the History of Women's Suffrage
Elizabeth and Susan work together to make the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage. This is the story of their movement. -
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Took a trip to Europe
Went to visit family and to see if an international suffrage movement could be possible. -
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Took a second trip to Europe
went back for the same reasons that she went for the first time. Her and Susan then decided to schedule an international conference of women in 1888, as a 40th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention -
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Conference is held
This was the first and largest international conference of women but it did not further the movement. -
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NWSA and AWSA merge
NWSA and AWSA come together to form the National American Women's Suffrage Association so that the forces for women's suffrage were not divided, and voting could eventually be achieved -
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Retires
Elizabeth retires NAWSA presidency. -
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Publishes Women's Bible
Elizabeth publishes the first volume of the Women's Bible. It becames an immediate best-seller but her collegues at NAWSA did not like it. -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies
Two weeks before her 87th birthday she dies of heart failure.
