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Mary Smith presents the first women’s suffrage petition to Parliament. In the same year, the Great Reform Act confirms the exclusion of women from the vote.
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MP John Stuart Mill presents a petition for women’s suffrage to the Commons. It fails and suffrage societies are started in Edinburgh, London, and Manchester.
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Second Reform Bill petition from women is presented to Parliament by Mill but fails. The National Society for Women’s Suffrage is formed.
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The publication of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill.
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The Married Women's Property Act 1882 an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women, which besides other matters allowed married women to own and control property in their own right.
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An amendment to the Third Reform Bill, to include women in the vote, is rejected.
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The Electoral Reform Bill passes in the Commons. It gives votes only to certain women: those over the age of 30, those over 21 who own their own house or those married to householders.
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Amendment of the Representation of the People Act entitles everyone over the age of 21 to vote.