Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1797 · Person
English writer and proto-feminist; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792); mother of Mary Shelley.
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- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
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- Indira Gandhi's first premiership (1966)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
Around 1759
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Revolution (1775)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)