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Period: Jan 1, 1480 to
Witch Hunts
Prosecute and execute people who were believed to be witches -
Period: Jan 1, 1558 to
Elizabeth I-reign
Was England’s influential monarch and was the first queen to rule on her own -
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi painted it about a woman killing her teacher/rapist -
Period: to
Salons
Hosted by women were discussion groups that involved the smartest people from around town -
Pragmatic Sanction
Charles VI issued the pragmatic sanction that said a woman could rule so that his daughter would be the next in line for the throne -
Period: to
Catherine the Great
Was the empress of Russia and was an enlightened absolutist -
March on Versailles
French women were mad that bread prices were too high and rioted -
Declaration of the Rights of Women
Written by Olympe de Gouges and made the argument that the equality proclaimed by the French revolutionaries must also include women. -
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
States the beliefs of Mary Wollstonecraft which were that men and women should be equal -
Napoleonic Code
Civil codes that took back the progress that the women were gaining by adding on even more laws -
Mines Act of 1842
Said that women and children were not allowed to work in mines, single women were the most angry about it -
Italy
First country that granted universal female suffrage