Women's Suffrage - a timetable
YEAR |
Happening |
1832 |
Mary Smith's petition to give women the right to vote is debated in parliament |
1903 |
Women's Social and Political Union founded |
1905 |
First militant protest in Manchester |
1909 |
Marion Wallace Dunlop becomes the first hunger striker..Force-feeding is introduced. |
1910 |
Black Friday riot in Parliament Square after the Conciliation Bill fails |
1918 |
Women aged 30 or over with certain property qualifications given the right to vote |
1919 |
1st December - Lady Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons |
1928 |
All women over 21 enfranchised |