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The march led to the creation of The Women’s History Research Center, a central archive of the women’s movement from 1968 to 1974. [43] Laura X also thought it unfair for half the human race, meaning women, to have only one day a year and called for National Women's History Month to be built around International Women’s Day. [ 44 ]
25 March 1911 Brown Brothers New York City, United States [s 3] Girl with a Mirror: 1912 [35] Clarence H. White: New York City, United States [s 1] Storyville Portrait: 1912 E.J. Bellocq: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States [s 1] Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912: 1912 Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Dieppe, France
Events. 19 January – Manchester High School for Girls, the first girls' school to provide an academic education in northern England, is founded. 23 January – marriage of The Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, younger sister of Alexander III of Russia, in Saint Petersburg.
UK. England. Cambridgeshire. 52°33′04″N 0°05′17″E / . 52.551°N 0.088°E. / 52.551; 0.088. March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. The administrative centre of ...
In the United Kingdom, as in other countries, feminism seeks to establish political, social, and economic equality for women. The history of feminism in Britain dates to the very beginnings of feminism itself, as many of the earliest feminist writers and activists—such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara Bodichon, and Lydia Becker —were British.
The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened on 15 March 1909. [6] Other Selfridges stores opened in Stretford at the Trafford Centre (1998), in Manchester at the Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).
8 January: The first soup kitchens are opened in London. [ 1] 13 January: The Royal Institution is granted a royal charter. [ 2] 22 March: The Company of Surgeons is granted a royal charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons in London. [ 2] 15 May: George III survives 2 assassination attempts in London.
March 5. March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 301 days remain until the end of the year.