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Sarah Pierce created the first institution where women could get a higher education in the state of Connecticut.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women who became a licensed physician
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The very first National Woman's Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts with 1,000 people in attendance. This gained national attention and the annual national conferences continue through 1860.
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The National Woman Suffrage Association is founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Kansas put a woman suffrage amendment proposal on the ballot, which lost.
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The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association come together to form NAWSA.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is seated in the U.S. House of Representatives
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The 19th Amendment is quietly signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, granting women the right to vote.
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The Equal Pay Act was passed by Congress
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Records are broken this year when more women than ever before were elected into Congress
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Hilary Clinton announces her running for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the 2008 election she lost to Barack Obama.