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Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, told him to "remember the ladies" when he went to work with the other men on the Declaration of Independence. He laughed.
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All the states take away women's rights to vote.
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Hannah Adams is the first women to support herself by writing.
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She writes, "Plan for Improving Female Education." This defied the issue of women's education, but it was unsucessful.
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In New York and Boston, the first public high schools for girls opened.
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Isabella Van Wagener is a freed slave, that takes the name Sojourner Truth and begins preaching throughout New York and New England against slavery.
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Fanny Wright wrote a book called Course of Popular Lectures.
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"Elizabeth Cady Stanton omits the word "obey" from her marriage vows.
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Women in the Nineteenth Century is the book that Margaret Fuller wrote for women's rights.
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Senecca Falls, New York was where the first Women's Rights Convention took place.
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The First National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Massechusettes.
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The state of Oregon grants women the right to own land.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, which becomes a best seller.
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The American Equal Rights Association is founded by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, Martha Coffin Pelham Wright, and Ernestine Rose.
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.
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For the first time ever, a Women's Suffrage Amendment is introduced to Congress.
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The 19th amendment is ratified, allowing women to vote.
