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