| 1900 to 1909 | ||
| German women demand higher education | March - 1900 | |
| First time in Olympic Games | July - 1900 | |
| UK women's trade union meets | October - 1900 | |
| First communal vote, Norway | December - 1901 | |
| Feet-binding banned in China | February - 1902 | |
| Textile workers call for votes for women | February - 1902 | |
| Glasgow barmaids win ruling | May - 1902 | |
| Prussia forbids political grouping | May - 1902 | |
| Get vote in Connecticut elections | September - 1903 | |
| Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst founds society | October - 1903 | |
| Hospital for women in Waterloo | October - 1903 | |
| Norwegion parliament blocks women's vote | November - 1903 | |
| First to win Nobel prize : Marie Curie | December - 1903 | |
| Pope attacks low-cut dresses | January - 1904 | |
| Women's suffrage bill forced out, London | May - 1905 | |
| First suffragettes to be imprisoned | October - 1905 | |
| Bertha von Suttner wins Nobel Peace prize | December - 1905 | |
| Participate in British election campaign | February - 1906 | |
| Women over 24 get the vote in Finland | March - 1906 | |
| Urged not to play "rough sports" | March - 1906 | |
| Disrupt Parliament as motion is blocked | April - 1906 | |
| Top suffragettes meet British premier | June - 1906 | |
| Banned from "dangerous sport" in Britain | June - 1906 | |
| Eleven Suffragettes jailed | October - 1906 | |
| Keir Hardie's female emancipation bill | November - 1906 | |
| Suffragettes on hunger strike | December - 1906 | |
| Women's education under Persian Shah | January - 1907 | |
| Suffragettes clash with police; arrests | February - 1907 | |
| Finns elect women MPs, first in world | March - 1907 | |
| Hardie's bill is defeated | March - 1907 | |
| Women's Labour League first conference | May - 1907 | |
| Employed equally in Austrian universities | August - 1907 | |
| German Women's Congress anti-militarism | August - 1907 | |
| Suffragettes drown out Asquith's speech | November - 1907 | |
| Pre-marital affidavits on good character | December - 1907 | |
| Suffragettes raid six ministers' homes' | January - 1908 | |
| New York woman arrested for smoking | January - 1908 | |
| Emmeline Pankhurst tells of prison life | February - 1908 | |
| "Women's Parliament" meets | February - 1908 | |
| Denmark chooses universal suffrage | April - 1908 | |
| Automatic divorce law in France | June - 1908 | |
| 200,000 support suffragettes at rally | June - 1908 | |
| Barmaids banned, New Zealand | January - 1909 | |
| Desertion not grounds for divorce | February - 1909 | |
| Russian prosecutor stops woman barrister | November - 1909 | |
| French Law favours pregnant women | November - 1909 | |
| Emancipation heroine in Shaw's play | December - 1909 | |
| 1910 to 1919 | ||
| Divorce too expensive for poor, Britain | November - 1909 | |
| Divorce Commission wants equal treatment | November - 1912 | |
| Mrs Pankhurst charged with bomb attack | February - 1913 | |
| Russian government bars women lawyers | February - 1913 | |
| International Women's Peace Conference | April - 1913 | |
| Why women dress up, by psychiatrist | May - 1913 | |
| Emil Dawson, first woman magistrate, UK | September - 1913 | |
| Woman in split skirt arrested in London | July - 1913 | |
| Women are inferior, says Almroth Wright | October - 1913 | |
| First woman to do aerial loop- the- loop | January - 1914 | |
| Admitted to Turkish universities | February - 1914 | |
| Mary Richardson slashes Velazquez art | March - 1914 | |
| Problems of women factory workers, UK | July - 1914 | |
| Queen starts war "Work for Women" fund | September - 1914 | |
| Sewing guilds to make clothes for war | November - 1914 | |
| Government wants war workers, equal pay | March - 1915 | |
| Special army battalion created | March - 1915 | |
| International Socialists call for peace | March - 1915 | |
| Can apply to be bus, tram conductors | October - 1915 | |
| Factory workers double production | November - 1915 | |
| First fully employed, Scotland Yard | November - 1915 | |
| Two million more employed in Britain | January - 1916 | |
| 400,000 to till fields, plan | February - 1916 | |
| British government promises equal pay | February - 1916 | |
| Committee blasts "extravagant dresses" | March - 1916 | |
| Women dockers strike over male prejudice | March - 1916 | |
| To receive Military Medal | June - 1916 | |
| Queen Mary opens Women's Hospital | July - 1916 | |
| Dr Mary Scharlieb says whores cause VD | October - 1916 | |
| First birth control clinic, New York | October - 1916 | |
| First woman member of US Congress | November - 1916 | |
| 3.2 million work outside home, Britain | November - 1916 | |
| Women taxi drivers; non-military scheme | February - 1917 | |
| First women's battalion, Russia | June - 1917 | |
| 200,000 work on land in wartime Britain | September - 1917 | |
| Labour Parry educates and organises women | October - 1917 | |
| Dr Anderson, first UK woman doctor, dies | December - 1917 | |
| Marie Stopes on sex and birth control | July - 1918 | |
| Million women factory-workers, USA | August - 1918 | |
| London Underground strike for equal pay | August - 1918 | |
| Revolutionary attacks Lenin; he survives | August - 1918 | |
| Women railway workers settle dispute | September - 1918 | |
| Commons votes to allow women MPs | October - 1918 | |
| 100 women police patrols, London | November - 1918 | |
| Vote in British election for first time | December - 1918 | |
| 17 women among candidates; one elected | December - 1918 | |
| Nationalist Moslem women protest, Egypt | March - 1919 | |
| 1.2 million more worked during War | March - 1919 | |
| Nancy Astor is first woman MP | November - 1919 | |
| Sex Disqualification Removal Bill passed | December - 1919 | |
| First woman bar student, Lincoln's Inn | December - 1919 | |
| 1920-1929 | ||
| Woman picket British embassy for Ireland | April - 1920 | |
| France beats England at women's football | May - 1920 | |
| Pope cononises Joan of Arc | May - 1920 | |
| International Feminist Congress, Geneva | June - 1920 | |
| First female jurors in Divorce Court UK | January - 1921 | |
| Unemployment Benefits raised | February - 1921 | |
| First UK birth control clinic opens | March - 1921 | |
| Pope Pius XI attacks "immodest" dress | March - 1922 | |
| Massachusetts public offices opened | April - 1922 | |
| Less hardship for divorced women in bill | May - 1922 | |
| Dr Ivy Williams, first called to bar | May - 1922 | |
| First woman president of Co-operative | June - 1922 | |
| First congress, Feminine Athletics | August - 1922 | |
| Women get equal citizenship rights, US | September - 1922 | |
| Coco Chapel's new liberated fashions | February - 1923 | |
| Lords' coercion ruling, Britain | February - 1923 | |
| Matrimonial Causes Bill; equal divorces | March - 1923 | |
| First woman admitted to Academia Francais | April - 1923 | |
| First broadcast of BBC's "Woman's Hour" | May - 1923 | |
| Mrs Hilton Philipson is third woman MP | June - 1923 | |
| Divorce husbands for adultery in new law | June - 1923 | |
| First to practise at Old Bailey | February - 1924 | |
| Late night working banned, US Court | March - 1924 | |
| YWCA say "dress to succeed" | May - 1924 | |
| Catholic women's group pro-modest dress | July - 1924 | |
| Dr Russell warns of drugs and tobacco | February - 1926 | |
| Mussolini shocked by Violet Gibson shot | April - 1926 | |
| Guild wants no strikes or lockouts | April - 1926 | |
| Can be elected to public office, India | June - 1926 | |
| 100,000 in London peace march | June - 1926 | |
| First to swim Channel (breaks record) | August - 1926 | |
| Italian women cannot hold public office | October - 1926 | |
| Short hair and "avant-garde" bobs are in | September - 1927 | |
| First women-only horse race, Newmarket | October - 1927 | |
| Hall's "Well of Loneliness" on lesbians | December - 1928 | |
| Abolition of veil sparks Afghan revolt | December - 1928 | |
| Given limited divorce rights in Egypt | March - 1929 | |
| Thirteen elected in British general election | May - 1929 | |
| First UK minister : Margaret Bondfield | June - 1929 | |
| World Congress on Women's Work, Berlin | June - 1929 | |
| 1930 to 1939 | ||
| Agree retirement on marriage | January - 1930 | |
| First to fly solo, Britain to Australia | April - 1930 | |
| Trades unionists protest at "invasion" | June - 1930 | |
| 476,041 women unemployed in Britain | August - 1930 | |
| Feminists condemn new long skirt fashion | March - 1931 | |
| Civil service opens to women | July - 1931 | |
| Elizabeth Scott's Shakespeare Theatre | April - 1932 | |
| Mildred Didrikson breaks Olympic records | August - 1932 | |
| Dietrich trend : menswear for women | May - 1933 | |
| None in new Nazi Reichstag, Germany | November - 1933 | |
| Women Wimbledon players may wear shorts | May - 1934 | |
| Fourth Women's World Games; German triumph | August - 1934 | |
| Polish conscription for men and women | September - 1934 | |
| New trend : slimming exercises to music | October - 1935 | |
| Laura Knight, first woman in Royal Academy | February - 1936 | |
| First BBC women announcers | May - 1936 | |
| Beryl Markham, first Atlantic women solo | September - 1936 | |
| Marriage Bill widens grounds for divorce | November - 1936 | |
| Turkey to conscript woman in wartime | January - 1937 | |
| First woman owner to win Derby | June - 1937 | |
| Miss M. J. Ahern manages John Lewis | February- 1938 | |
| Dodds new drug to ease menopause | December- 1938 | |
| Women fellow at male Oxford college | May - 1939 | |
| Women's League of Health and Beauty UK | June - 1939 | |
| Women's Auxiliary Air Force formed UK | July - 1939 | |
| Women teachers in uk allowed to marry | March - 1944 | |
| UK women teachers to get same pay as men | March - 1944 | |
| New homes in UK to be fit for housewives | July - 1944 | |
| Queen Elizabeth praises war work, UK | December - 1944 | |
| First GI brides leave UK for USA | January - 1946 | |
| Single women May become diplomats, UK | March - 1946 | |
| Vote for first time in Japanese election | April - 1946 | |
| UK minister advocates more women in work | June - 1947 | |
| UK women asked to avoid longer skirts | September - 1947 | |
| Woman manager of Shakespeare Theatre, UK | February - 1948 | |
| Women's Service Bill passed, UK | February - 1948 | |
| Women's Royal Air Force formed, UK | February - 1948 | |
| Women's Royal Army Corps formed, UK | February - 1948 | |
| Penson is first UK woman vice-chancellor | June - 1948 | |
| WRAF and WRAC incorporated in UK forces 2 | April - 199 | |
| Lords to admit peeresses, UK | July - 1949 | |
| "The Second Sex", de Beauvoir, published | December - 1949 | |
| 1950 to 1969 | ||
| Banned from reading, BBC news | January - 1951 | |
| "Average UK housewife works 15 hour day | July - 1951 | |
| Education pioneer Maria Montessori dies | May - 1952 | |
| Commons votes for women's equal pay | May - 1952 | |
| Eva Peron dies, Argentina's heroine | July - 1952 | |
| First publicised sex change : Christine | December - 1952 | |
| First woman to win Welsh Bardic Crown | August - 1953 | |
| First as Tory minister, Horsbrugh | September - 1953 | |
| Equal pay for civil servants | January - 1955 | |
| Burnham committee -equal teachers' pay | March - 1955 | |
| UK Lords reforms : life peers and women | October - 1957 | |
| Bishop:working mothers "family enemy' | March - 1958 | |
| Christabel Pankhurst, suffragist. dies | March - 1958 | |
| 14 women life peers | July - 1958 | |
| Warnings on overuse of sedatives | November - 1958 | |
| Lead Cato Manor unrest, South Africa | June - 1959 | |
| New MPs Margaret Thatcher, Judith Hart | October - 1959 | |
| Mrs Bandaranaike, first woman premier | July - 1960 | |
| Suffragist Estelle Sylvia Pankurst dies | September - 1960 | |
| Contraceptive pill goes on sale in UK | January - 1961 | |
| First Mothercare shop opens, UK | September - 1961 | |
| Birth control pill available on NHS, UK | December - 1961 | |
| First woman judge in High Court' UK | October - 1962 | |
| Tereshkova (USSR) first woman in space | June - 1963 | |
| Oral contraceptive on prescription, UK | June - 1963 | |
| Woman broadcaster reads TV news in Wales | August - 1963 | |
| Woman completes solo round-world flight | April - 1964 | |
| Death of Nancy Astor, first UK woman MP | May - 1964 | |
| First Brook Advisory Centre opens, UK | July - 1964 | |
| First woman High Court judge, UK | August - 1965 | |
| First woman to train racehorses, UK | July - 1966 | |
| Birth-control pioneer M. Sanger dies | September - 1966 | |
| Twiggy is rising fashion star | December - 1966 | |
| The Abortion Bill becomes law, UK | October - 1967 | |
| Ford machinists' equal pay strike, UK | June - 1968 | |
| Epidural promises painless childbirth | September - 1968 | |
| First sextuplets born in Britain | October - 1968 | |
| Pregnancy Advisory Service launched, UK | October - 1968 | |
| First abortion clinic opens in Londonn | October - 1968 | |
| Human egg made fertile in test tube, UK | February - 1969 | |
| Women workers at Ford (UK) win equal pay | February - 1969 | |
| Lloyd's of London to admit women | February - 1969 | |
| Irene Hanson gives birth to quins, UK | November - 1969 | |
| 1970 to 1979 | ||
| Bill to give women equal pay, UK | February - 1970 | |
| First women generals in US Army | May - 1970 | |
| Methodists to admit women ministers, UK | June - 1970 | |
| Missiles thrown at Miss World contest | November - 1970 | |
| "The Female Eunuch" published | December - 1970 | |
| Women win the vote in Switzerland | February - 1971 | |
| Liechtenstein refuses women the vote | February - 1971 | |
| UK's biggest women's lib | March - 1971 | |
| Allowed on UK Stock Exchange floor | February - 1973 | |
| UK plans Equal Opportunities Commission | September - 1973 | |
| Dalkon Shield IUD taken off market, US | May - 1974 | |
| First as leader of a UK political party | February - 1975 | |
| Two women try to kill Ford on two occasions | September - 1975 | |
| State-sponsored maternity pay, UK | October - 1975 | |
| International Women's Year ends | December - 1975 | |
| Sex Discrimination Act, UK; employment | December - 1975 | |
| Equal Pay Act, UK; equal opportunities | December - 1975 | |
| UK's only big women's hospital to close | February - 1976 | |
| Northern Irish women's peace movement | August - 1976 | |
| First as Dartmouth Naval College cadets | September - 1976 | |
| First as jockey in Grand National | April - 1977 | |
| Red "La Passionaria" returns to Spain | May - 1977 | |
| Peace Movement women win Nobel prize | October - 1977 | |
| Naomi James in world sailing record | June - 1978 | |
| Pelletier, first French Minister for Women | September - 1978 | |
| Israel's woman premier Golda Meir dies | December - 1978 | |
| US feminists upset at wife-rape verdict | December - 1978 | |
| Teheran women protest at Islamic strictures | March - 1979 | |
| International Women's Day protests | March - 1979 | |
| Mrs Thatcher, first woman premier of UK | May - 1979 | |
| First woman Prime Minister of Portugal | July - 1979 | |
| Grate Weitz breaks 2.5 hour marathon | October - 1979 | |
| 1980 to 1988 | ||
| Belfast peace woman Maguire dies | January - 1980 | |
| More UK women work than rest of Europe | January - 1980 | |
| Lung cancer kills many women in US | January - 1980 | |
| Icelands first woman premier | June - 1980 | |
| Iranians protest about Islamic dress | July - 1980 | |
| First Norwegian woman prime minister | February - 1981 | |
| Brown first woman to cox Oxford boat team | April - 1981 | |
| First woman Supreme Court Judge, O'Connor | July - 1981 | |
| Church of England for women as deacons | November - 1981 | |
| 20,000 women encircle Greenham Common against Cruise | December - 1982 | |
| First woman trainer to win National, UK | April - 1983 | |
| Sally Ride is first US woman in space | June - 1983 | |
| First 3 woman head of major union, UK | March - 1984 | |
| Bailiffs clear main Greenham peace camp | April - 1984 | |
| G. Ferraro runs for US vice-president | July - 1984 | |
| UK High Court grants Greenham eviction | September - 1984 | |
| Church of England approves women deacons | July - 1985 | |
| 10,000 attend rights conference, Kenya | July - 1985 | |
| Death of feminist Simone de Beauvoir | April - 1986 | |
| UK synod votes for women's ordination | February - 1987 | |
| Surrogate mothers not parents : US judge | March - 1987 | |
| Plans for ordination of women published | June - 1988 | |
| Synod on ordination of women | July - 1988 | |
| Anglican bishops vote on women priests | August - 1988 | |
| First woman bishop elected in America | September - 1988 | |
