1637- Anne Hutchinson is banished by the colony --
1650 - Anne Bradstreet becomes an author --
1657 - the Society of Friends lands in the New World --
1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged at Boston Common --
1692 - Bridget Bishop goes to the gallows at Salem --
1735 - Benjamin Franklin's sister-in-law becomes a newspaper editor --
1741 - Eliza Lucas cultivates indigo --
1775 - Mary Katharine Goddard becomes Postmaster --
1776 - Abigail Adams writes "Remember the Ladies" --
1778 - Molly Pitcher goes to Valley Forge --
1789 - Martha Washington becomes First Lady --
1805 - Sacagawea joins the Corps of Discover --
1809 - Mary Dixon Kies patents her technique --
1813 - Elizabeth Ann Seton establishes the Sisters of Charity --
1834 - Prudence Crandall's boarding school is ransacked --
1836 - Angelina Grimke publishes her pamphlet --
1837 - Mount Holyoke opens its doors --
1839 - Margaret Fuller hosts her conversation --
1843 - Massachusetts legislature is inspired by Dorothea Dix --
1843 - Isabella Baumfield becomes Sojourner Truth --
1845 - Abby Kelly marries Stephen Foster --
1846 - First female telegrapher is hired --
1847 - Maria Mitchell discovers a comet --
1848 - Elmira Gazette prints Aunt Maguire's description --
1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton hosts the National Women's Rights Convention at Senecca Falls --
1848 - Boston Female Medical School opens --
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes a doctor --
1849 - Mary Upton Ferrin petitions Congress --
1849 - Minty escapes from Bucktown --
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin --
1851 - Lily shows bloomers --
1852 - Mary Pleasant comes to San Francisco --
1853 - Antoinette Blackwell is ordained --
1853 - Rebecca Mann Pennell becomes a professor --
1862 - Charlotte Forten Grimke lands at St. Helen Island --
1863 - Universalist Divinity School awards Olympia Brown a degree --
1865 - Mary Surratt is hanged --
1865 - Mary Edwards Walker gets Medal of Honor --
1868 - New York Press Club turns away Jane Cunningham Crowly --
1868 - Paris Salon accepts Cassat's The Mandolin --
1869 - Frederick Douglass splits from the women --
1869 - AWSA splits from NWSA --
1869 - Wyoming grants suffrage --
1870 - Kappa Alpha Theta is born --
1870 - Esther Hobart Morris becomes judge --
1871 - Vinnie Ream carves Abraham Lincoln --
1871 - Evanston College make Frances Willard president --
1872 - Charlotte Ray passes the bar --
1872 - Victoria Woodhull is nominated President --
1872 - Susan B. Anthony is arrested --
1873 - Congress passes Comstock Laws --
1874 - Supreme Court decides Happersett v. Minor --
1875 - Smith College opens --
1878 - First woman telephone operator is hired --
1879 - Sara Joseph Hale dies --
1879 - Mary Baker found Christian Science church --
1880 - Supreme Court hears Belva Lockwood --
1881 - Clara Barton founds the Red Cross --
1881 - Louise Blanchard Bethune opens an office --
1884 - Mary Carey Thomas is named Dean-Elect --
1884 - Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona --
1885 - Boston Symphony welcomes Amy Marcy Cheney Beach --
1887 - Buffalo Bill presents Annie Oakley --
1887 - Argonia elects Susanna Salte --
1889 - Susan La Flesche becomes a doctor --
1889 - Hull House opens --
1890 - Locust Street Social Settlement opens --
1891 - Emma Edwards designs the Great Seal of Idaho --
1892 - Ida Bell Wells begins her anti-lynching campaign --
1895 - The Women's Bible is published --
1895 - Queen Lilioukalani is released from Iolani Palace --
1896 - Utah exchanges polygamy for statehood --
1896- the Women's law class begins" --
1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her cookbook --
1896 - Josephine Ruffin organizes the NACWC --
1898 - Charlotte Perkins Stetson releases Women and Economics --
1898 - Isadora Duncan performs at Carnegie Hall --
1899 - Florence Kelly begins work for the National Consumers League --
1899 - Carrie Moore Nation has a vision --
1901 - Congress establishes the Army Nurse Corps --
1901 - Emma Goldman is arrested in Chicago --
1903 - Penny Savings Bank opens in Richmond --
1903 - Helen Keller publishes The Story of My Life --
1906 - Elsa Clews Parson publishes The Family --
1908 - Mt. Huascaran is scaled by Annie Peck --
1908 - Supreme Court decides Muller v. Oregon --
1910 - Bessica Raiche builds an airplane --
1910 - Alice Stebbins becomes a cop --
1911 - Fire erupts at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory --
1911 - Harriet Quimby earns a pilot's license --
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low begins the Girl Scouts --
1913 - 500,000 watch the Women Suffrage Procession and Pageant --
1914 - Annette Abbott Adams becomes assistant US attorney --
1915 - Woman Voter's Convention is held in San Francisco --
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens a birth control clinic --
1916 - Inez Milholland Boissevain is memorialized --
1917 - Jeannette Rankin is elected to Congress --
1917 - American Civil Liberties Union is born --
1917 - Alice Paul is arrested --
1917 - 33 suffragists face the "Night of Terror" --
1918 - Suffragists burn the President in effigy --
1919 - League of Women Voters is formed --
1919 - Susan B. Anthony amendment is passed --
1920 - Edith Wharton publishes The Age of Innocence --
1921 - Congress passes the first federal welfare legislation --
1921 - Bessie Coleman earns an international pilots license --
1922 - Congress passes the Cable Act --
1922 - Rebecca Felton becomes a senator --
1923 - Equal Rights Amendment is launched --
1923 - Ida Cohen Rosenthal founds Maidenform --
1923 - Bessie Smith records Down Hearted Blues --
1924 - Mary Hopkins Norton heads a Congressional committee --
1925 - Nellie Taylor Ross becomes governor of Wyoming --
1925 - National Academy of Science welcomes Florence Sabin --
1925 - So Big wins the Pulitzer Prize --
1925 - Josephine Baker appears in Paris --
1926 - Martha Graham debuts in New York --
1926 - Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel --
1927 - Seeing-eye dog phenomenon begins --
1928 - Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa --
1931 - Good Earth is released --
1933 - Frances Perkins is appointed Secretary of Labor --
1933 - Ruth Bryan Owen is appointed foreign minister to Denmark --
1933 - Eleanor Roosevelt becomes the 32nd First Lady --
1933 - Comstock Laws are challenged --
Central Airlines hires Helen Richey --
1934 - Mae West flaunts the Production Code --
1935 - Ambrosia Chocolate Company joins New York Stock Exchange --
1936 - Mourning Dove dies --
1937 - Amelia Earhart is lost --
1938 - Art collector discovers Grandma Moses --
1939 - Billie Holiday sings Strange Fruit --
1939 - Gone with the Wind is released --
1940 - Carson McCullers releases The Heart is a Lonely Hunter --
1941 - Jeannette Rankin votes against World War II --
1943 - Rosie the Riveter appears on Saturday Evening Post --
1944 - Susan Dauser is promoted to captain --
1946 - Frances Xavier Cabrini is canonized --
1947 - Babe Didrikson wins the British Amateu --
1949 - Agnes Morgan wins the Garvan Medal --
1949 - Cone Collection comes to Baltimore --
1950 - Althea Gibson competes in the US Open --
1951 - Margaret Webster directs Don Carlo --
1952 - APGAR test is introduced --
1953 - Oveta Culpa is named Secretary --
1953 - Jacqueline Cochran breaks the sound barrier --
1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested --
1957 - Chien-Shiung Wu overturns a law of physics --
1959 - Raisin in the Sun opens in New York City --
1962 - Edith Sampson is elected judge --
1962 New Yorker presents Silent Spring --
1963 - Alan Guttmacher presides over Planned Parenthood --
1963 - Equal Pay act is passed --
1963 - America reads the Feminine Mystique --
1964 - "Sex" is added to the Civil Rights Act --
1964 - Jerrie Mock flies around the world --
1965 - Hawaii elects Patsy Mink --
1965 - Supreme Court decides Griswold v Connecticut --
1965 - Delano grape strike commences --
1966 - National Organization of Women is founded --
1967 - Katherine Switzer runs the Boston Marathon --
1968 - "Freedom Trash Can" comes to Miss America --
Brooklyn elects Shirley Chisholm --
1969 - Weeks v. Southern Bell is decided --
1971 - Patience Sewell Latting is elected mayor --
1971 - Supreme Court decides Reed v. Reed --
1971 - New York presents MS --
1972 - Senate passes the ERA --
1972 - Sally Jane Priesand is ordained rabbi --
1973 - Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade --
1973 - Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs --
1975 - President Ford signs Public Law 95-106 --
1975 - Eleanor Grasso is elected governor --
1976 - Barbara Walters airs as co-anchor --
1977 - Janet Guthrie qualifies for the Indianapolis 500 --
1977 - Rose Jimenez dies --
1978 - Post Office releases the Harriet Tubman stamp --
1978 - Nancy Kassenbaum is elected to the Senate --
1979 - US Mint releases the Susan B. Anthony dollar --
1979 - National Women's Hall of Fame is created --
1980 - Sherry Lansing is named head of 20th Century Fox --
1980 - Jeane Kirkpatrick is appointed Ambassador to United Nations --
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed to the Supreme Court --
1982 - Cagney & Lacey airs on CBS --
1983 - Sally Ride boards Challenger --
1984 - Oprah Winfrey appears on AM Chicago --
1984 - Democrats nominate Geraldine Ferraro as Vice President --
1984 - Katherine Sullivan walks in space --
1985 - Libby Riddles wins the Iditarod --
1985 - Robin Ahrens is killed in the line of duty --
1987 - Wilma Mankiller is elected chief --
1988 - Gertrude Elion wins the Nobel Prize --
1989 - Captain Linda Bray leads a platoon into battle --
1992 - Antonia Novello is appointed Surgeon General --
1993 - Dr. David Gunn is murdered --
1993 - Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize --
1995 - Shannon Faulkner is admitted to the Citadel
1997 - Madeline Albright is named Secretary of State --
1999 - United States wins the World's Cup --
2001 - Condoleeza Rice is named National Security Advisor --
2004 - More than a million March for Women's Lives --
2006 - Twelve women are ordained Catholic priests --
2006 - Ingrid Mattson becomes head of the Islamic Society --
2006 - Morning after pill is approved by the FDA --
2006 - Katherine Jefferts Schori is named Presiding Bishop --
2006 - South Dakotans rejects HB 1215 --
2007 - 51% of women now live without a husband --
2007 - Hillary Rodham Clinton enters President Race --
2008 - Barack Obama wins Democratic Presidential Nomination over Hillary Clinton --
2008 - Drew Gilpin Faust is named President of Harvard University --
2008 - Obama picks Biden as running mate --
2008 - Sarah Palin is named as GOP VP candidate --
2008- McCain-Palin are defeated by Obama-Biden --
2008 - U.S. Army names its first female four-star general, Ann Dunwoody.
