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1607 |
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Settlement of Jamestown |
| 1614 |
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Marriage of Pocahontas and John
Rolfe |
| 1619–1621 |
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Virginia Company sends 250 women
to Virginia to transform colony |
| 1662 |
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General Assembly declares
children of enslaved women to be slaves |
| 1676 |
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Bacon's Rebellion |
| 1677 |
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Cockacoeske, queen of Pamunkey, signs peace treaty with
Virginia |
| 1699 |
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General Assembly restricts suffrage to adult white men |
| 1776–1781 |
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American Revolution |
| 1778 |
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Hannah Lee Corbin declares that widows be allowed to vote
and not be
taxed without representation |
| 1848 |
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Woman's Rights Convention at
Seneca Falls, N.Y. |
| 1856 |
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Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
of the Union founded |
| 1861–1865 |
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American Civil War |
| 1873 |
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Comstock Act |
| 1877 |
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Virginia Married Women's
Property Act |
| 1889 |
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Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities founded |
| 1890 |
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General Federation of Women's
Clubs founded |
| 1900 |
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National Association of Colored
Women founded |
| 1903 |
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First woman bank president in
Virginia |
| 1907 |
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Virginia Federation of Women's
Clubs founded |
| 1908 |
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Virginia State Federation of
Colored Women's Clubs founded |
| 1909 |
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Equal Suffrage League of
Virginia founded |
| 1917–1918 |
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World War I |
| 1920 |
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Nineteenth Amendment ratified |
| 1920 |
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League of Women Voters founded |
| 1923 |
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National Woman's Party proposes
Equal Rights Amendment |
| 1923 |
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First women elected to Virginia
House of Delegates |
| 1924 |
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Virginia Woman's Council of
Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations founded |
| 1941–1945 |
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World War II |
| 1950 |
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General Assembly allows women
serve on juries for first time |
| 1952 |
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General Assembly ratifies
Nineteenth Amendment |
| 1960 |
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Birth control pill becomes
available by prescription |
| 1963 |
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Betty Friedan's Feminine
Mystique |
| 1964 |
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Civil Rights Act |
| 1965 |
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Voting Rights Act |
| 1966 |
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National Organization for Women
founded |
| 1967 |
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Loving v. Virginia legalizes
interracial marriage |
| 1972 |
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Equal Rights Amendment submitted
to States |
| 1973 |
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Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion |
| 1979 |
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First woman elected to Virginia
Senate |
| 1984–1985 |
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Virginia Women's Cultural
History Project |
| 1989 |
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First woman elected Attorney
General of Virginia |
| 1989 |
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First woman elected to Supreme
Court of Virginia |
| 1992 |
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First woman elected to House of
Representatives from Virginia |
|
1997 |
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Women admitted to Virginia Military
Institute |
