Votes for Women
Explore Votes for Women on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Representation of the People Act 1918 (1918)
- Suffragette movement intensifies (1903)
- WSPU founded (1903)
- Emily Davison killed at the Epsom Derby (1913)
- Equal Franchise Act 1928 (1928)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Suffragette hunger strikes begin (1909)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Finland elects the world's first women MPs (1907)
- The Silent Sentinels picket the White House (1917)
- Black Friday (suffragette) (1910)
- The suffragists unite under Fawcett (1897)
- Cat and Mouse Act (1913)
- Suffragette window-smashing campaign (1912)
- French women finally win the vote (1944)
- Suffragettes suspend militant campaign (1914)
- Turkish women gain the vote (1934)