Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Frustrated by the lack of progress made by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies from whom the group had split, the WSPU soon became known for its militant and sometimes violent actions under the motto ‘Deeds, not words’.
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.
Ross later achieved another ‘first’ in 1933 when she was appointed Director of the U.S. Mint by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Anthony and fourteen other women successfully cast their votes despite it being illegal under federal law.
The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New York.
On the 4th June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by King George V’s racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track.
On the 10th October 1903 the Women’s Social and Political Union, whose members came to be known as suffragettes, was founded at the Manchester home of Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst.
On 6 February 1918 the Representation of the People Act received Royal Assent, marking the start of female suffrage in Great Britain.
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