Women in history
Explore Women in history on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69 BCE)
- Elizabeth I (1533)
- Marie Curie (1867)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Representation of the People Act 1918 (1918)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Joan of Arc (1412)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858)
- Roe v. Wade decision (1973)
- Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949)
- Margaret Thatcher (1925)
- Empress Wu Zetian (624)
- Queen Victoria (1819)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- WSPU founded (1903)
- Hatshepsut (1507 BCE)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
- Catherine de' Medici (1519)
- Contraceptive pill approved (1960)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
- Jane Austen (1775)
- Overturning of Roe v. Wade (Dobbs) (2022)
- Rosa Parks (1913)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
- Florence Nightingale (1820)