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Circa 1595: Pocahontas' Birth
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Circa 1610: Pocahontas marries an indian named Kocoum.
Pocahontas marries an indian named Kocoum. -
Circa 1612: Anne Bradstreet's birth
Soon after Anne Bradstreet was born, she immigrated to America in 1930 on the Arabella. She became a very famous poet, who wrote about life. -
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Circa 1614: Pocahontas marries an Englishman named John Rolfe.
Pocahontas marries an englishman named John Rolfe. -
Pocahontas' death.
Pocahontas dies. -
Anne Bradstreet's Death
Anne died on September 16,1672 from an illness. Most people assume that it was tuberculosis. This was not the first time that she had tuberculosis. -
Abigail Adams' birth
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Circa 1788: Sacagawea's Birth
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition was from the Mandan-Hidatsa villages in the Dakotas to the Pacific Northwest. Through all this trouble, Sacagawea always guided and helped Lewis and Clark understand the Shoshone Indian language. Therefore, she is one of the most admired women in history. -
Angelina Grimke's Birth
Angelina Grimke who was born to a prominent slaveholding family in Charleston,South Carolina. She invited the women and men from Philadelphia to join her in the campaign against slavery . -
Sojourner Tuth (Isabella Baumfree)
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Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark with their expedition
Sacagawea helped translate the Shoshone Indian language for Lewis and Clark . She helped finish the Lewis and Clark Expedition. -
Sacagawea's date of death
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Elizabeth Cody Staten is born
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Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell was born on August 1st 1818. She died on June 28th 1889. She was the first woman astronomer. She discovered the Miss MItchell's comet in 1847. -
Elizabeth Blackwell is Born
Elizabeth Blackwell is born in England in 1821. -
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's Birth
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was a child who had many interests in Literature. -
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's Contribution
Emily Dickinson was an American lyrical poet who lived in seclusion. She commanded a brilliance of style. She also commanded integrity of vision. Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets. She sacrificed her time to help improve the the Arts of Literature. -
Frances Willard's birth
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"Miss Mitchell's Comet"
Circa 1847, Maria Mitchell found "Miss Mitchell's Comet". She won a gold prize that was presented to her by King Fredrick VII of Denmark. -
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Sojourner Truth's Famous Speech
Sojourner Truth gave her famous speech 'Ain't I A Woman?' in December, 1851 at the Womens Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. More On Sojourner Truth -
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Sarah Grimke
Sarah Grimke, the daughter of a slaveholding judge from Charleston, South Carolina was born on December 23,1873. Sarah and her sister Angelina both developed a dislike of slavery at an early age, and after moving to Philadelphia in 1819 they joined a group called Society of Friends . During the Civil War Sarah wrote and lectured in support of Abraham Lincoln . Sarah continued to work civil rights and women suffrage until her death on December 23,1873 -
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Emily Post was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Bruce and Josephine Price. Emily was taught at home and was educated in Miss Graham's finishing school in New York, later she became a successful writer. -
Hattie Ophelia Caraway
Hattie died 12/22/1950. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and she was a strong supporter of President Franklin. Ms. Caraway did not want to use the tax payers' money. She was a school teacher and was married to Thaddeus Horatius Caraway. -
Hattie Ophelia Caraway
First women elected to the U.S senate. She did not want to waste the taxpayers money. Caraway became the first woman to chair a Senate committee when she served as chair of the Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills from 1933 to 1944.Caraway spoke on the Senate floor so infrequently that she became known as Silent Hattie. -
Isadora Duncan
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Jeanette Rankin
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Hellen Keller's Birth
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Frances Perkins's Birth
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Sojourner Truth's Death
Sojourner Truth died in the Fall of 1883 at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
"I'm going home like a shooting star," she said soon before her death. More on Sojourner Truth -
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson dies
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson died with the honor of improving the Arts of Literature. -
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Circa 1895: Isadora Duncan
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Amelia Earhart's birth
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897. She was the 16th woman to own a pilot license. She was also the irst woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. However, she later disappeared. -
Margaret Mead Date of Birth
Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 as the first of five children. Britannica Source -
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Margaret Mead's Thoughts
As an anthropologist, Margaret Mead was a role model to women and she encouraged them to pursue professional careers while also supporting their roles as moms. Britannica Source -
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Barbara McClintock Was Born
Barabara McClintock was born in Hartford, Connecticut in the June of 1902 More On Barbara McClintock -
Elizabeth Cody Staten dies
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Emily Post becomes an author
In 1904 Emily Post published her first novel, in 1909 her non-fiction book was on the bestsellers list. in 1922 she published her book on etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage. -
Grace Murray Hopper's Birth
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Rachel Carson
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Virginia Apgar
Apgar was born. -
Elizabeth Blackwell's Death
Elizabeth Blackwell died of a stroke in East Sussex on May 31. -
Julia Child's Birth
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Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman to serve in U.S. Congress
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Madam C.J. Walker's Death
Madam CJ Walker died on May 25th, 1919 from yellow fever and kidney failer. -
Margaret Burbidge's birth
Margraet Burbidge was born on August 12, 1919. Later in life, she married an astronamer, Geoffrey Burbidge. With her husband at her side, nuclear physicist, William A. Fowler, and an astrophysicist, Fred Hoyal, she better understood of how elements are formed by nuclear reactions in stars. -
Isadora Duncan
Duncan dies. -
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
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Anne Bradstreet immigrated to the US
Anne immigrated to the US in 1930 in the Arabella. -
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Virginia Apgar
Apgar graduated fourth in her class at Columbia University college in 1933. -
Amelia Earhart's Disapearance
Amelia disapeared right before her flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1937. -
Madeline Albright's Birth
Madeline Albright was the first female woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S President Bill Clinton on December 5,1996 -
Joan Baez's Birth
Joan Baez was born on January 9th 1941. She is still alive today at age 71. She was a famous folk singer. -
Catharine A. Mackinnon's Birth
She was against sexual harassment she believed that sexual harrassment is sex discrimination and pornography is a civil rights violation. -
Margaret Burbridge was rejected for a job
In 1947, Maragret was rejected for a Carnegie Fellowship at Mt.Wilson observatory because women could not work there. Therefore, she pretended to be her husband's assistant and ended up developing a better understanding of how elements are formed by nuclear reactions in stars. -
Hilary Rodham Clinton's Birth
Hilary Clinton was born on October 26 1947. She is still alive today at age 65. -
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Virginia Apgar
Apgar made a scoring system for newborns. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29th 1954. She is till alive today at age 57. She was the first black woman to host a national television show and own a production company. -
Sonia Sotomayor's Birth
Sonia Marie Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954, in Bronx. Her parents were Juan and Celina Sotomayer. Soina got degrees form Princeton, and Yale university; she went on to be a Justice of the Supreme Court. -
Condeeleza Rice's Birth
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Martha Navratilova
She was a tennis player and she became the most dominant player in women's tennis. She won 167 top level single titles and 177 double titles. -
Ellien Collins is born
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Joan Baez starts her music career
In 1960, Joan Baez started her music career. Today she is still in her music career. -
The death of Emily Post
Emily Post died on September 25, 1960, as a very successful writer. -
Julia Child's Publication
The first volume of Julia Child's collaboration 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' is published in 1961. The two other contributers were Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. -
Jackie Joyer-Kersee
Jackie was born on March 3, 1962. She became a very good athlete, and ranked among all time greatest athletes in the heptathon and long jump. -
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Joan Baez's albums go gold
Circa 1963, Joan Baez's First 3 albums-"Joan Baez", "Joan Baez Vol.2", and "Joan Baez in Concert" go gold. They stayed on the charts for 2 years. -
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama was born on January 17, 1964. She is still alive at age 48. She is the wife of the 44th president Barack Obama and is the first African-American First Lady. -
Frances Perkins's Death
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Madam C.J. Walker's birth
Madam C.J. Walker was born on December 23, 1967. She was enterpreneur who built an empire for hair products for black women. She also gave lectures on black issues at conventions for WWI. -
Hellen Keller's Death
Hellen Keller died in January 1968 at age 87. -
Helen Keller's Death
More On Helen Keller
Helen Keller died June 1st at Arcon Ridge, a few weeks before her 88th birthday. -
Mia Hamm
Hamm scored more international goals in the history of U.S. soccer and she was the yongest American woman to win a World Cup. On May 22 she broke the alll time record with her 108th goal. -
Jeanette Rankin
Jeanette Rankin died on May 18, 1973. -
Virginia Apgar
Apgar died as a very proud woman. -
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Circa 1980: Eilleen Collins
Collins marries Pat Young. -
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Barbara McClintock's Contribution
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Grace Murray Hopper's Death
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Barbara McClintock's Death
Barbara McClintock dies at age 90 on September 2, 1992. -
Michelle Robinson Marries Barack Obama
On October 3rd, 1992 Michelle Obama, whose maiden name was Robinson, got married to Barack Obama who in 2008 became the 44th president of the United States. -
Rosa Parks involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
A major cause of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was the defiant action of Rosa Parks who, when riding a city bus, refused to give over her seat to a white male passenger. Even after interference from the bus driver, Rosa would not leave her seat. Since it was the law that blacks must give their seats to whites, Rosa was taken to jail. The courageous action of this one black women would serve as a major impetus for the Civil Rights movement.
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Sonia Sotomayor's Contribution
Sonia Sotomayor became the U.S. Justice of the Supreme Court on October 7, 1998- August 9, 2009. She was nominated by Bill Clinton. -
Eillen Collins
Collins made history again by being the first woman astronaut to command a shuttle. -
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Oprah Winfrey becomes a billionare
Oprah Winfrey became a billionare at age 50 with $1.1 billion. -
Julia Child's Death
Julia Child died on August 13, in 2004. -
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Rosa Park's Date of Death
Rosa Parks died October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. She is known as "the mother of the civil rights movement" as well as " the first lady of civil rights". Britannica -
Hellen Keller's Statue
Hellen Keller's statue is added to the National Statuary Hall Collection.
