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An Egyptian manuscprit entitled Ebers Papyrus directs women on how to mix dates, acacia anhoney into a paste, smear it over wool and use it as a pessary to prevent pregnancy
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Casanova's memoirs detail his experiments in birth control, from sheep-bladder condoms to the use of half a lemon as a makeshift cervical cap
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Solutions of diffrent copper salts were drunk as contraceptives
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Congress passes an antiobscenity law that deems birth control info obscene and outlaws its dissemination. At the time, the U.S. is the only Western nation to criminalize contraception
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Margaret Sanger opens America's first family-planning clinic, in Brooklyn. It is shut down within 10 days
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Margaret Sanger, the founder of International Planned Parenthood, was jailed for giving contraceptives to immagrant women at a Brooklyn clinic.
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The first sex hormone ever isolated was the female sex hormone estrone, it was obtained by the urine of pregnant women.
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Anglican bishops approve limited use of birth control; Pope Pius XI affirms church teaching against contraception
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A judge lifts the federal obscenity ban on birth control, but contraception remains illegal in most states
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In Mexico City, chemist Carl Djerassi creates a progesterone pill. This pill contains only synthetic progestogens (progestins) and do not contain estrogen.
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Enovid was given limited approval by the Food and Drug Administaration as a treatmeant for menstrual irregularities. With the approval of this drug nearly half a million women were taking this drug for "menstrual irregularities"
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In May, the FDA announces its approval of Enovid as a birth control pill
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In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court strikes down state laws prohibiting contraception for married couples at this time in history 6.5 million American women are on the pill.
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10.5 million American women are taking the Pill
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Gregory Pincus begins research on the use of hormones in contraception.
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle is one of the first people to use natural chemicals such as cedar oil, lead ointment or frankincense oil as spermicides.
