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1801Dorothy Ripley became a missionary to America. She met with President Thomas Jefferson concerning the slavery issue (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.)
1802Jane Aitken inherits her father's publishing firm, becoming the first woman publisher of the Bible in the US.(Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House.)
Sarah Eland began preaching (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.)
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1809Diana Thomas was authorized by the Kington Quarterly Meeting. She began preaching sometime between 1805-1810. Her ministry spread from England into Wales.
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1812Alice Cambridge became an itinerant evangelist (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.)
Disguised as "George Baker", Lucy Brewer joined the marines, and served in battle aboard the USS Constitution. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 67)
"James" Barry graduated from the University of Edinburgh in medicine. "James" was a woman--Miranda Barry.
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1814Two women in Truro, Cornwal founded a separate Methodist group. Their worship included jumping, shouting and mimicking angels playing trumpets.
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1819Elizabeth Dart became the first Bible Christian (a Wesleyan denomination) female itinerant preacher. She was appointed to Kirkhampton Circuit.
Zilpha Elaw began preaching at camp meetings (Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women).
The First Day Baptist Church of Piscataway, New Jersey, determined that women should be given the same freedoms to speak, vote and govern the church as male members ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
1820Harriet Tubman born.
Fanny Cosby was born.
Mary Toms became a preacher on the Luxulyan circuit for the Bible Christians.
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1822United Church of Christ sent Betsy Stockton, a former slave, to be a missionary to Hawaii.
Elizabeth Dart became the leader of the Bible Christian Connexion in Bristol.
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1825Alice Cambridge lead a revival in Nenagh (Chilote, Paul Wesley. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. 1991.)
1826Public high schools for girls opened in Boston and New York.
1827Jarena Lee began preaching (Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women).
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1830Speaking in tongues happens for the first time in Scotland (Bebbington p. 79)
Sarah Hale of Boston wrote "Mary had a Little Lamb".
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1833In Ohio Oberlin College opened. It was the first co-education college.
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1835 Phoebe Palmer began holding her "Tuesday Meetings", which were influential in the spread of the Holiness Movement (Riss, Richard M.Women Throughout History Served as Leaders: A Brief History of Some Women in Ministry).
1836Mary Ann Taylor was appointed itinerant by the Bible Christians.
The Order of Deaconesses formed in the Reformed and Lutheran churches at Kaisersweith.
Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee was published.
1837Sarah Grimke wrote letters on the "Equality of the Sexes" to Mary Parker, President of the Female Anti-Slavery Society. Her work provided Scriptural support for women's equality, marriage equality and ministry. Letters included:The Original Equality of Woman, Woman Subject Only To God, The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, Social Intercourse of the Sexes, Heroism of Women -- Women in Authority, Relation of Husband and Wife, Ministry of Women, and Man Equally Guilty with Woman in the Fall.
1838In Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College opened. It was the first women's college.
Sarah Grimes wrote, Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman
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1843Thomas Chalmers "lead out" almost half of the ministers of the Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland.
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1846Antoinette Brown entered Oberlin College to study for the ministry. Her professors and the college administrators, including Charles Finney, tried to discourage her. Eventually, they decided to let her follow her own conscience.
Catherine Harris was appointed as an itinerant preacher to the Kirkhampton Circuit.
1847Maria Mitchell discovered a comet.
1848The first Women's Rights Convention held Seneca, NY. Many evangelical women attended.
1849Elizabeth Black, the first woman in the US to receive a medical degree graduated from Geneva Medical College, New York.
1850Women obtained the right to own land in Oregon.
Female Medical College (later Women's Medical College) founded in Pennsylvania.
Phoebe Palmer founded the Fine Points Mission.
1851Dorothea Trudel began a healing ministry that linked prayer and anointing with oil.
1852Antioch College granted equal rights to women. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 23)
1853On September 15, the First Congregational Church of Butler and Savannah, New York ordained Antoinette Brown as minister. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 70)
The General Association of Baptists in Kentucky allowed women as members ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
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1857The "Layman's Revival" swept the world, bring renewed emphasis on lay participation in church services and preaching.
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1859Revival in Scotland.
Catherine Booth's Female Ministry was published.
1860Jessie MacFarlane began preaching in Edinburgh (Orr MacDonald, Lesley. A Unique and Glorious Mission. 2000.)
The Advent Christian Church was founded. It granted full ministerial rights to women.
Florence Nightingale established the first training program for women at St. Thomas's Hospital.
Catherine Booth preached a sermon for the first time.
1861Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka. Franklin Thompson) joined the Second Michigan Regiment of the Volunteer Infantry. She served on active duty, even participating in the first battle of Bull Run. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992.The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 138)
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1863The Northern Universalists ordained Olympia Brown. She pastored in Weymouth Massachusetts. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 72)
Elizabeth Ferrard ordained as a deaconess in England.
Universalist Church ordained Augusta Chapin as a pastor.(Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 87)
Open Brethren Isabella Armstrong preached at the Wishaw.
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1865Catherine and William Booth founded the Salvation Army.
Maria Mitchell become a professor of astronomy. In the same year she became the director the college observatory at Vassar.
1866Mary Hamilton and Mary Preston preached during the revival in Scotland.
1867Jessie McFarlane preached at the Open Brethren assembly in Newmains.
A congregation in the Christian Church ordained a woman, thus opening the door for other women to ordained in the denomination.
186814th Amendment ratified. This Amendment to the constitution denied women the right to vote.
Women lawyers licensed to practice in the US.
1869Reformed Church sent Mary Kidder as a missionary to Japan. She was the first single woman to be sent to Japan as a missionary. (Full Participation A Long Time Coming by Edwin G. Mulder)
Maggie Van Cott was licensed to preach. She was the first woman licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church (Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women).
National Woman Suffrage Association founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 22)
The women's labor organization, Daughters of St. Crispin, formed. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992.The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 114)
Elizabeth Blackwell founded the London School of Medicine for Women.
1870American Woman Suffrage Association founded by Lucy Stone. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts. New York: Random House. p.22)
Universalist Church has pastor Augusta Chapin serve on their council. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 87)
1871Unitarian Church ordains Celia C. Burleigh as a minister. She becomes a pastor in Brooklyn Connecticut. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts.New York: Random House. p. 76)
1872Susan B. Anthony and several other women were arrested for voting in the presidential election. Only Anthony was tried. She was convicted but never paid her fine.
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On July 7, Lottie Moon was appointed as a missionary to China by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Maria Mitchell founded the Association for the Advancement of Women.
1874Elizabeth Garrett Anderson opened the London School of Medicine for Women.
1875Mary Slessor began a missionary for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
1876Mary Slessor sent to West Africa as a missionary for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
An Act of Parliament was passed to allow women to enter all medical professions in the United Kingdom.
A New Jersey Church sent women as delegates to the West New Jersey Baptist Association, thought Association decided not to accept them ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.).
1877Myra E. Graves was seated a delegate from her local church to the Southern Baptist Convention ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
1878Women's Suffrage Amendment introduced before Congress. It failed.
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1880Maria Woodworth-Etter began her ministry as a preacher.
1881The American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
Myra E. Graves was seated a delegate from Baptist State Convention of Texas to the Southern Baptist Convention ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
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1883Vivian Dake founded the Traveling Pentecost Bands. This organization in the Free Methodist tradition relied heavily on women evangelists (Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women).
Holston and Big Hatchie Baptist Associations of Tennessee determined that all delegations should include at least one woman ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
1884Maria B. Woodworth-Etter was ordained by the Churches of God (Riss, Richard M.Women Throughout History Served as Leaders: A Brief History of Some Women in Ministry).
1885The Church of God (Anderson) was founded. From its inception, the church ordained women.
Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle and Margaretta Adelaide Dudgeon ("Dottie") Early were elected and went to serve as representatives of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention delegation to the Southern Baptist Convention. However, after fierce debate by the Convention, they withdrew their applications.
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1887Catherine Booth co-founded the Salvation Army (Riss, Richard M.Women Throughout History Served as Leaders: A Brief History of Some Women in Ministry).
Carrie Judd Montgomery was a founding member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (Riss, Richard M.Women Throughout History Served as Leaders: A Brief History of Some Women in Ministry).
Phoebe Couzins became a US marshal after her father's death. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts. New York: Random House. p. 104)
Gospel Mission founded in Portland, Oregon by Susan Duncan, Hattie Duncan, Nellie Fell, M.E. Work and Elizabeth Baker (Burgess, Stanley M., Gar B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988, p 254.)
1888Church of Scotland formed the Order of Deaconesses.
The Disciples of Christ opened the ordained ministry to women.
Methodist Episcopal General Conference refused to seat five female delegates, including Francis Willard ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
1889Two women prayed for revival in Rothesay, Scotland. By October a revival began (Govan , p. 71).
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ changed its rules to allow the ordination of women.
The Los Angeles Church of the Nazarene issues a constitution stating, "We recognize the equal right of both men and women to all offices of the Church of the Nazarene, including the ministry" (Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women).
Francis Willard wrote, "Woman in the Pulpit" ("'On the Same Basis as the Men': The Campaign to Reinstate Women as Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, 1885-1918," J. Michael Raley, Journal of Southern Religion.)
1890Fanny Baker Ames becomes the first female factory inspector.(Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts. New York: Random House. p. 17)
The Swedish Holiness Union Mission added a woman to its board (The Debate on Women's Ministry: Summary and Analysis. Nils-Olov Nilsson)
Fredrik Fransson publishes Prophesying Daughters, a booklet defending women's call to the ministry. (The Debate on Women's Ministry: Summary and Analysis. Nils-Olov Nilsson)
Baptist Union of Great Britain's Deaconess Movement began.
Amy Carmichael was called to missions.
1891The Wesleyan Methodist Church changed their rules to allow the ordination of women.
1892Twin sisters Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson discovered a previously unknown fourth century palimpsest of the Four Gospels in Syriac.
Methodist Protestant Church changed their rules to allow the ordination of women.
1893The men of Colorado vote to grant women the right to vote. (Read, Phyllis J. and Bernard L. Witlieb 1992. The Book of Women's Firsts. New York: Random House. p. 98)
Alma White organizes revival meetings after experiencing personal sanctification.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church endorsed a women's mission to Maori women.
1894Edith Hall was ordained by a Baptist congregation.
1895Elim Faith Home founded in Portland, Oregon by Susan Duncan, Hattie Duncan, Nellie Fell, M.E. Work and Elizabeth Baker (Burgess, Stanley M., Gar B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988, p 254.)
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre discovered radium.
The National Baptist Convention was founded. From its inception, they allowed the ordination of women.
Pentecostal Holiness Church was founded. From its inception, they allowed the ordination of women.
1896A revival began in Cherokee, North Carolina, in which women and women spoke in strange languages. Participants suffered persecution including having their homes burned down, being flogged and having guns fired at them. (Burgess, Stanley M., Gar B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.)
1897Having earned her degree in physics at Wellesley College, Annie Jump Cannon began work at the Harvard College Observatory. During her time at Harvard College Observatory she catalogued over 300,000 stars.
Pilgrim Holiness Church was founded. From its inception, they allowed the ordination of women.
An AME Zion church ordained Mary Small as an elder.
Lena Shoffner preached about racial reconciliation at Alabama Camp Meeting (History of the Church of God)
Amy Carmichael formed the "Woman's Band".
Hannah Frances Davidson went to Africa as a missionary.
1898Marie Curie began work on "radioactivity".
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church changed its rules to allow the ordination of women.
1899The New Testament church ordained Mary Lee Harris Cagle (Timeline: Selected Dates in Wesleyan/Holiness History of Ordaining Women).
1900John Ongman wrote Kvinnans rätt att förkunna evangelium (Women´s right to preach the gospel) (The Debate on Women's Ministry: Summary and Analysis. Nils-Olov Nilsson)

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