Mary Astell
1666–1731 · Person
'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' — the first English feminist, philosopher of women's education.
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- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
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- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
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- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
Around 1666
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- English Civil War (1642)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)