Harriet Martineau
1802–1876 · Person
The first woman sociologist — political economy in monthly tales, America surveyed, and a living earned entirely by the pen.
On these timelines: Women in history, England, Economic History, United Kingdom (combined), Arts and Thoughts
More from Women in history
- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- 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 1802
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)