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In Salem, Ohio, women take complete control of their women's rights convention, refusing men any form of participation apart from attendance.
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First National Woman's Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts. It draws 1,000 people, and women's movement leaders gain national attention. Annual national conferences continue to be held through 1860
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Sojourner Truth's spontaneous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech electrifies the woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio.
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The Una premiers in Providence, Rhode Island, edited by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. With a masthead declaring it to be "A Paper Devoted to the Elevation of Woman," it is acknowledged as the first feminist newspaper of the woman's rights movement.
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Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention is held. The American Equal Rights Association is formed at the end of the convention, and the members pledge to achieve suffrage for both women and black Americans.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton declares herself a candidate for Congress from the 8th Congressional District of New York and eventually loses.
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The Woman's Journal debuts, edited by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Mary Livermore.
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Victoria Woodhull becomes a Presidential candidate on her own ticket.
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested in New York for casting a ballot with 15 other women.
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Susan B. Anthony is tried for voting illegally, is convicted, and is fined $100, which she refuses to ever pay.
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Wyoming is admitted to the Union, because the first state since New Jersey to grant women full enfranchisement in its state constitution.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York City, where more than 100 people died (mostly female, including many teenagers), results in the largest female strike to date and eventually, workplace safety protective legislation for workers.
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The most elaborate campaign ever mounted for suffrage succeeds in California by only 3,587 votes, an average of one vote in every precinct in the state. This followed a defeat in 1896.
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On the day preceding President Wilson's inauguration, 8,000 suffragists parade in Washington, D.C., organized by Alice Paul. They are mobbed by abusive crowds along the way.
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A bequest from Mrs. Frank Leslie, publisher of Leslie's Weekly, puts $1,000,000 at the disposal of Carrie Chapman Catt for "the furtherance of the cause of woman suffrage."
