Elizabeth Blackwell
1821–1910 · Person
The first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, opening the profession to women.
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- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
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- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
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Around 1821
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- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)