HISTORY
Women’s history, city by city
Women shaped these cities, though their stories are easy to miss on a first visit. These are women’s history facts from the places our guides cover, grouped by city, each with a link to the guide.
Algarve
Maria Veleda born in Faro
Amalfi Coast
Marinella Rufolo’s marriage links rival family histories in Scala’s cathedral account.
Rosa Pandolfi’s Santa Rosa convent is completed.
Irene Kowaliska arrives in Vietri Marina.
Amsterdam
Jacobs applies to be added to the electoral register and is refused.
The Dutch Association for Women's Suffrage is founded.
Jo van Gogh-Bonger co-founds the Amsterdam Social-Democratic Women's Propaganda Club.
Miep Gies preserves Anne Frank's writings after the arrest.
Antwerp
Clara Peeters paints Still Life with Fish.
Asheville
Helen Morris Lewis leads the formation of a women's suffrage association.
Edith Stuyvesant Dresser marries George Vanderbilt.
Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale arrive; craft teaching grows in Biltmore Village.
Educator Hester Ford Lee dies; the new school is named for her and Edward Stephens.
Wilma Dykeman argues for a connection between environmental sensitivity and economic development.
A suffrage marker dedication honors Helen Morris Lewis.
Athens
Queen Amalia commissions the Royal Garden
Kalliroi Parren launches the Ladies’ Journal
Maria Callas studies and begins performing in Athens
Auckland
The Sisters of Mercy establish a convent on land later used by the cathedral.
Ellen Melville is admitted to the Bar.
Melville establishes her own legal practice.
Melville becomes Auckland City Council's first woman member.
Whina Cooper becomes foundation president of the Māori Women's Welfare League.
Austin
Angelina Eberly opens the Eberly House tavern
Susanna Dickinson and Joseph Hannig home built
Elisabet Ney establishes Formosa studio
Elisabet Ney dies in Austin
Clara Driscoll creates and later gives Laguna Gloria to an art association
Lady Bird Johnson founds the National Wildflower Research Center
Bali
Ni Pollok participates in gifts establishing public ownership of the Le Mayeur property.
Ni Pollok manages the collection after Le Mayeur’s death.
Ni Pollok dies.
Banff
Adelia Woodworth is among the earliest burials documented by the town’s cemetery account.
Mary Schäffer marries outfitter Billy Warren.
Mary Schäffer Warren dies in Banff.
Eleanor Luxton joins the CPR in Montreal to work on locomotive design.
Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally establish Banff’s dance program.
Eleanor Luxton dies after creating her historical foundation.
Barcelona
Queen Elisenda founded Pedralbes, with first stone in 1326 and consecration in 1327.
Lluïsa Vidal painted her early self-portrait.
Francesca Bonnemaison and collaborators opened the women's library.
Asunción Bastida began her Barcelona fashion career.
Mercè Rodoreda's La plaça del Diamant was published.
Bath
Caroline Herschel began receiving a royal salary for astronomical work.
Princess Victoria opened Royal Victoria Park.
Eagle House served as a retreat and meeting place for suffragettes.
Bergen
Engelbretsdatter’s later house built
Amalie Skram born as Berthe Amalie Alver
Ambrosia Tønnesen creates J. C. Dahl façade sculpture
Nina Grieg’s ashes placed beside Edvard’s
Berlin
Käthe Kollwitz moves to Berlin with her physician husband.
Bilbao
María Franciska Dapena is imprisoned.
Dora Salazar's Las sirgueras is inaugurated.
Bologna
Caterina de’ Vigri lives as an artist and religious leader
Laura Bassi receives a degree and a teaching appointment
Bordeaux
Al Pouessi, known as Modeste Testas, is transported to Saint-Domingue by François Testas.
Rosa Bonheur is born in Bordeaux.
Rosa Bonheur receives the Légion d’honneur.
Boston
Isabella Stewart marries Jack Gardner and moves into Boston society.
Bratislava
Maria Theresa is crowned Hungarian sovereign.
Alojz Rigele creates Cantus in memory of singer Oľga Trebitschová.
Gisi Fleischmann helps lead the Bratislava Working Group; she is deported and murdered in 1944.
Cantus is restored and installed at Panenská 11.
Zuzana Čaputová takes office as president.
Brisbane & Gold Coast
Lilian Cooper arrived in Brisbane and began medical practice.
Lilian Cooper worked at Brisbane's Hospital for Sick Children and Lady Lamington Hospital for Women.
Queensland women gained state voting rights, with racial exclusions still operating.
Emma Miller took part in Brisbane's general strike.
Emma Miller died after decades of labor and suffrage activism.
Irene Longman became the first woman elected to Queensland Parliament.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal served in the Australian Women's Army Service.
Sallyanne Atkinson became Brisbane's first woman Lord Mayor.
Bruges
Women’s vow associated with the Battle of Pevelenberg gives rise to the Bruges Promise tradition.
Jan van Eyck paints Margaretha at age 33.
Marie Lovell buys the Carmersstraat property that becomes the English Convent.
Brussels
Françoise of Luxembourg builds the early Egmont residence.
Isabella Clara Eugenia holds sovereignty jointly with Albert.
A street-art initiative honors Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.
Budva
Jelena Balšić and Balša III issue Praskvica's charter
Cambridge
Margaret Beaufort refounded Godshouse as Christ’s.
Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon helped organize the women’s suffrage petition.
Emily Davies served as resident Mistress of the early women’s college.
Philippa Fawcett’s result was above the Senior Wrangler.
Barbara Bodichon left Girton £10,000 in her will.
Virginia Woolf published A Room of One’s Own.
Canterbury
Queen Bertha worshipped at St Martin’s.
Sarah Baker opened the Orange Street Theatre.
Stephen and Catherine Williamson gave Tower House and gardens to the city.
Catherine Williamson served as the first woman mayor.
Audrey Williams directed excavations revealing Roman domestic remains.
Cardiff
Shirley Bassey was born in Tiger Bay.
Minnie James opened the Temple of Peace on November 23.
Gwendoline and Margaret Davies’s art bequests transformed the national collection.
Charleston
Sarah Grimké’s family lives in the Heyward house
Sarah Grimké moves north after becoming a Quaker
Septima Poinsette Clark born in Charleston
Septima Clark graduates from Avery
Laura Bragg becomes Charleston Museum director
Susan Pringle Frost helps organize the preservation society
Miriam Wilson purchases the Old Slave Mart and establishes a museum
Chattanooga
Mary Edwards Walker serves as a contract surgeon.
Abby Crawford Milton campaigns for suffrage ratification.
Bessie Smith begins her Columbia recording career.
Anna Safley Houston’s museum project develops and opens.
Chicago
Margaret and Charles Burroughs found the Ebony Museum.
Cinque Terre
Anna degli Uberti belongs to Montale’s Monterosso years and later poetic memory.
Colmar
Agnès de Hergheim and Agnès de Mittelnheim establish the community that becomes Unterlinden.
Unterlinden’s community affiliates with the Dominican order.
Life of Elisabeth Kempf, nun, translator and prioress.
The nuns leave Unterlinden: city museum magazine gives 1792, museum history page gives 1793.
Andrée Borocco-Jess works in the Resistance, making false papers and helping escape networks.
Cologne
Frieda Fischer-Wieruszowski was forced from the museum directorship because her husband was Jewish.
Copenhagen
Zahle’s school moves to a purpose-built complex on Nørre Vold.
Elisabeth Toubro’s monument to Inge Lehmann is installed at Frue Plads.
Cordoba
Leonor López de Córdoba dictated her memoirs.
Corfu
Rena Vlahopoulou's life connects Corfu with Greek song, theater and cinema.
Maria Desylla-Kapodistria donates the Koukouritsa estate and heirlooms.
Cotswolds
May Morris directed Morris & Co. embroidery
Katharine Adams opened her Broadway bindery
May Morris co-founded the Women’s Guild of Arts
Jane Morris secured Kelmscott Manor for her daughters
May Morris died at Kelmscott
Diany Binny continued Kiftsgate
Heather Muir began Kiftsgate garden
Crete
Rethymno-born Kalliroi Parren launches the Ladies’ Journal in Athens.
Denver & Boulder
Mary Rippon began teaching at CU.
Elizabeth Piper Ensley moved to Denver.
Justina Ford arrived in Denver.
Ensley founded an association of Black women’s clubs.
Dana Crawford led preservation of the 1400 block of Larimer Street.
Dublin
Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats found the Abbey Theatre.
Women are first admitted as Trinity students.
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington helps establish the Irish Women’s Franchise League.
Kathleen Lynn serves as Irish Citizen Army chief medical officer at City Hall.
Constance Markievicz is elected to Westminster and does not take her seat.
Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench-Mullen establish St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants.
Mary Robinson is inaugurated as President of Ireland.
Trinity elects Linda Doyle as its first female provost.
Dubrovnik
Marija Gundulić’s dedication defending women appears, then is shortened in the next edition.
Anica Bošković lives and writes in Dubrovnik.
Flora Jakšić works as a Dubrovnik-born painter.
Jelka Miš preserves and donates traditional textiles and lace.
Edinburgh
St Margaret's Chapel built in her memory
Mary, Queen of Scots lived at Holyroodhouse
Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven matriculated
Surgeons' Hall riot targeted women students
Inglis organized Scottish Women's Hospitals
Florence
Bronzino paints Eleonora di Toledo with Giovanni.
Artemisia Gentileschi joins the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno.
Fuerteventura
Sebastiana de Cabrera is born into the family of the colonels.
Sebastiana Cabrera gives the Casa del Coronel to her son Pedro.
Josefina Plá, born on Lobos, develops a major literary and artistic career in Paraguay.
Tamonante is remembered among the women influential in Indigenous governance.
Tibiabín is remembered as an influential Indigenous religious figure.
Galway
Alice Perry graduates in engineering
Lady Gregory dies
Engineering building named for Alice Perry
Gdańsk
Elisabeth Koopmann, later Hevelius, is born in Gdańsk.
Geneva
Alice Rivaz begins work at the International Labour Office and settles in Geneva.
Ella Maillart establishes herself in Geneva and Chandolin.
Women gain cantonal voting rights in 1960 and federal voting rights in 1971.
The original street-naming decree honors Émilie Gourd.
Ghent
Old St Elizabeth’s beguines moved to Sint-Amandsberg.
The Old St Elizabeth Beguinage grew into a community with a church, an infirmary, houses, a bleachfield and an orchard.
Glasgow
A surviving land contract required the new town to be called Maryhill.
Isabella Elder briefly took responsibility for her late husband’s shipbuilding firm.
Margaret and Frances Macdonald are recorded as art-school day students.
Margaret Macdonald married Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Agnes Toward and her mother moved into the Tenement House, Glasgow, in 1911.
The term Glasgow Girls appeared in an exhibition-catalog essay.
Gothenburg
Elfrida Andrée becomes Gothenburg cathedral organist.
Frigga Carlberg organizes Gothenburg's women's suffrage association.
Carlberg hosts Sylvia Pankhurst's lecture in Gothenburg.
Gran Canaria
Josefina de la Torre published Versos y estampas.
Jane Millares held her first individual exhibition, according to her official award citation.
Catalina Hernández de Guanarteme lived and died in Agüimes, according to municipal heritage interpretation.
Granada
Mariana Pineda executed
Greenville
Hattie Logan Duckett founded the Phillis Wheatley organization.
Dorris Wright and Margaree Seawright Crosby participated in the Greenville Eight library protest.
Halifax
Women establish Victoria School of Art and Design
Viola Desmond opens Vi’s Studio of Beauty Culture
Helen Creighton sells Evergreen to Dartmouth
Nova Scotia grants Viola Desmond a free pardon
Hamburg
Fanny Mendelssohn is born in Hamburg.
Astrid Kirchherr is born in Hamburg.
Loki Schmidt establishes a foundation for threatened plants.
Heidelberg
Olympia Fulvia Morata reaches Heidelberg, teaches Greek privately, and dies in 1555.
Elizabeth Stuart arrives as Frederick V’s bride.
The Elisabethentor is associated with Elizabeth Stuart; its overnight assembly remains a legend.
Georgine Sexauer and three further women enroll as regular Heidelberg students.
Hannah Arendt studies in Heidelberg and works with Karl Jaspers.
Helsinki
Women gain political rights in 1906; Miina Sillanpää is elected in 1907.
Miina Sillanpää becomes Finland’s first woman government minister.
Tove Jansson paints her two party frescoes.
Honolulu
Kaʻahumanu exercises power as kuhina nui.
Queen Emma uses Hānaiakamalama as a royal retreat.
Liliʻuokalani dies at Washington Place.
Julia Morgan is hired to design Laniākea.
Robynne Maii receives a James Beard award.
Innsbruck
Philippine Welser died.
Inverness
Town records document brewer Elspeth Barnet.
Mary, Queen of Scots was refused entry to the castle.
Flora MacDonald helped Charles Edward Stuart escape.
Andrew Davidson’s Flora MacDonald statue was erected.
Ethel Moir served with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals.
Key West
The 1846 hurricane destroys the original Key West lighthouse; keeper Barbara Mabrity survives its collapse.
Kotor
Osanna enters the Dominican third order, according to the museum.
Jelena Vicković is born in Kotor.
Jelena Vicković starts teaching girls in Cetinje.
Krakow
Jadwiga became Poland’s crowned ruler.
A major fire destroyed the childhood house of Helena Modrzejewska.
Olga Boznańska was born in Krakow.
Three women began pharmacy studies at the university.
Szymborska’s childhood arrival in Krakow is dated differently by two biographies.
Kyoto
Nene establishes Kodai-ji in memory of Hideyoshi.
The reed organ later cherished by Yae belongs to this year.
Lake Como
Marianne acquired the villa now called Carlotta.
Giulia Celesia donated Grumello to Como's Sant'Anna Hospital.
A Cistercian women's monastery was established on the site of Villa Monastero.
Lake District
Lady Anne Clifford was able to return to her northern inheritance after the Civil War.
Lady Anne Clifford erected the Countess Pillar.
Charlotte Mason opened the House of Education with four students.
Charlotte Mason's institution moved to Scale How.
Sarah Nelson died and was buried near her former home.
Mary Louisa Armitt died, leaving books for a scholarly library.
The Armitt opened after Mary Louisa's death.
Beatrix Potter left 4,000 acres of land to the National Trust when she died.
Lake Garda & Verona Region
Alfonsina Gonzaga and Gaudenzio Madruzzo commission the Inviolata
Charlotte Chetwynd-Talbot makes her home on Isola del Garda
Liverpool
Eleanor Rathbone became the first woman elected to Liverpool City Council.
Margaret Mills joined the Bold Street photographic studio where she met Chambré Hardman.
Chambré and Margaret Hardman established their home and studio at 59 Rodney Street.
Ljubljana
The tourism board dates Vurnik House to 1921; Helena Vurnik created its painted decoration.
London
Some women win the parliamentary vote.
Voting rights are equalized at age 21.
Rosalind Franklin lives at Drayton Gardens.
Lucerne
Marie Amrein-Troller takes over the Glacier Garden after her husband's death.
Angela Rosengart begins working in the family art business.
Lucerne approves cantonal women's voting rights, followed by the federal change and Josi Meier's election.
Angela Rosengart establishes her foundation.
Lyon
Julie-Victoire Daubié obtains the baccalaureate in Lyon.
Brazier receives three stars for each of two restaurants.
Lübeck
Maria Slavona moves to Paris in 1890 and returns to Lübeck in 1906.
Ida Boy-Ed receives a lifetime honorary apartment.
Gertrud Morneweg conducts property and credit business.
Madrid
Beatriz Galindo's hospital is completed.
Juana of Austria's Descalzas community arrives.
Queen Margarita founds La Encarnación.
María de Maeztu directs the new Residencia de Señoritas.
Maruja Mallo moves to Madrid.
Emilia Pardo Bazán's monument is erected.
Malta
Cosmana Navarra dies after supporting the building of Rabat’s St Paul’s Church.
Women vote and stand under the new constitution.
Agatha Barbara becomes Malta’s first woman minister.
Agatha Barbara serves as president.
Ramona Preca opens Palazzo Preca.
Melbourne
Helen Porter Mitchell, later Nellie Melba, is born in Richmond.
Women doctors led by Constance Stone begin an outpatient clinic.
Vida Goldstein stands for federal election.
Women gain state voting rights in 1908; the library dates passage to November 18 and Parliament to November 24.
John and Sunday Reed make Heide their home.
Women take on vital wartime work.
Zelda D'Aprano chains herself outside the Commonwealth Building in an equal-pay protest.
Menorca
Death of Margarida Comas in England
Sílvia Anglada mentors Cristina Pons for a European chef competition
Merida
Rita Cetina and colleagues launched La Siempreviva.
Instituto Literario de Niñas established.
Consuelo Zavala organized the First Feminist Congress in Mérida.
Mexico City
Leona Vicario imprisoned and escaped
Leona Vicario’s later city home
Milan
Anna Kuliscioff and Filippo Turati’s home becomes a political and editorial meeting place.
Milos
Kitty Kyriacopoulos’s restoration converts an old kaolin plant to the conference center.
Niki Tselenti-Papadopoulou’s catacomb text is reproduced by the Mining Museum.
Minneapolis
Maria Sanford joins the University of Minnesota.
Martha Ripley establishes Maternity Hospital.
The university names Sanford Hall for Maria Sanford.
Lena Olive Smith becomes Minnesota’s first licensed Black woman attorney.
Lena Olive Smith becomes Minneapolis NAACP president.
Christina Nguyen wins Best Chef: Midwest from the James Beard Foundation.
Monterey
Anita Cooper Wohler reunites the Cooper property by buying the Diaz Adobe and Spear Warehouse.
Frances Molera inherits the Cooper-Molera complex.
E. Charlton Fortune and her mother spend summers in Monterey before Fortune settles locally.
Alice Larkin Toulmin acquires her grandfather's house.
Margaret Jacks gives Pacific House to California.
Alice Larkin Toulmin donates Larkin House to California.
Frances Molera leaves Cooper-Molera to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Linda Yamane begins mentoring Violet Smith in Rumsen Ohlone basketmaking through the ACTA Apprenticeship Program.
Montreal
Marguerite Bourgeoys arrives.
Mance brings the Hospitalières to Montréal in 1659.
Munich
The Amalienburg is built for Electress Maria Amalia.
Anita Augspurg establishes a Munich base for photography and women's-rights activity.
Gabriele Münter gives major parts of her collection to Lenbachhaus.
Rachel Salamander donates her archive to Munich.
Málaga
Sabina Muchart runs a photographic studio in Plaza de la Constitución.
Napa & Sonoma
Charmian occupies House of Happy Walls.
Pauline Bond gives land to the City of Sonoma for a public park.
Cathy Corison begins her own winery.
Naples
Mary of Hungary supports Donnaregina’s rebuilding.
Nashville
Ella Sheppard served the Jubilee Singers as soprano, accompanist, and assistant director.
Anne Dallas Dudley led a suffrage march to Centennial Park.
Juno Frankie Pierce addressed the state suffrage convention in the Capitol.
Lula Naff was recognized as the Ryman’s manager.
Patsy Cline became the first solo woman elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Ann Patchett and Karen Hayes opened Parnassus Books.
Naxos
Fiorenza and Niccolò Sanudo govern jointly.
Mairi Vlasis’s house hosts the first Apeiranthos collection.
New Orleans
Ursuline nuns arrive
Henriette Delille founds Sisters of the Holy Family
New York
Dyckman sisters’ restoration becomes a city museum
Nice
Marie Bashkirtseff’s family settles in Nice.
Niki de Saint Phalle donates works to MAMAC.
Oaxaca
Margarita Maza and Benito Juárez marry.
Doña Rosa develops a polished finish for black pottery.
Ohrid
Eudokia and Progon Sgouros endowed Peribleptos, according to the diocese.
Ana Lipša Tofović's August 4 concert initiated Ohrid Summer.
Liljana Maneva chaired the festival's governing board.
Osaka & Hiroshima
Yosano Akiko’s life began in Sakai’s confectionery world and expanded into poetry and social commentary.
Setsuko Thurlow spoke at ICAN’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
Oslo
Aasta Hansteen is born in Christiania
Harriet Backer settles again in Norway
Sigrid Undset’s first novel is published
Camilla Collett monument is unveiled
Expanded royal stables are completed
Women gain universal parliamentary suffrage
Ottawa
Lillian Freiman organizes influenza relief.
Lotta Hitschmanova chairs the first USC Canada meeting.
Council votes to rename Sandy Hill Park for Annie Pootoogook.
Oxford
Empress Matilda escapes after Stephen besieges Oxford Castle.
Sarah Jane Cooper makes the first batch of Oxford marmalade for the family shop.
Lady Margaret Hall opens under Elizabeth Wordsworth.
Dorothy L. Sayers wins a scholarship to Somerville.
Vera Brittain publishes Testament of Youth.
Sayers publishes Gaudy Night.
Lady Margaret Hall admits its first men.
Palermo
Santa Caterina's church was built for the Dominican convent.
Sofonisba Anguissola died in Palermo; the Met dates her death to 1625, while the opened English Wikipedia biography…
Franca Florio became a prominent figure in Palermo's Belle Époque society.
Jole Bovio Marconi became archaeological superintendent for western Sicily.
Letizia Battaglia led L'Ora's photographic team.
Palm Springs
Nellie Coffman’s Desert Inn evolved from a respiratory clinic to an important resort.
Cornelia White bought the Palm Springs Hotel and made its bungalow her home.
Pearl McManus’s Tennis Club opened.
Vyola Olinger was elected to tribal leadership.
Melba Berry Bennett established the Historical Society.
Paris
Olympe de Gouges published her declaration of women’s rights.
Berthe Morisot participated in the first Impressionist exhibition.
Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex.
Marie and Pierre Curie’s remains entered the Panthéon.
Perth
Edith Cowan works through women's and social-welfare organizations before and alongside her parliamentary service.
Bessie Rischbieth arrives in Western Australia.
Rischbieth supports the formation of the Women's Service Guilds.
Rischbieth establishes the Australian Federation of Women Voters.
Mary Raine buys Gordons Hotel and later renames it the Wentworth.
Cowan's memorial is erected at the Kings Park approach.
A National Trust project commemorates Fanny Balbuk Yooreel.
Philadelphia
Mott helps organize the Seneca Falls convention
Alice Paul earns a doctorate at Penn
Portland
Abigail Scott Duniway publishes The New Northwest.
Esther Pohl serves as city health officer.
Beatrice Morrow Cannady joins the Advocate in Portland.
Oregon women win statewide suffrage.
Cannady helps found the Portland NAACP.
Cannady graduates from Northwestern College of Law.
Dorothy McCullough Lee begins her mayoral term.
Portland, Maine
Anne Longfellow Pierce’s bequest preserved the family house.
Pearl Wing’s garden club revived the Longfellow grounds in Colonial Revival form.
Grace Dow and Dorothy Healy founded the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Porto
Rosa Mota was born in Foz do Douro.
Marta Ortigão Sampaio left her house and collections to the city.
Rosa Mota won the Olympic marathon in Seoul.
Marta Ortigão Sampaio’s museum opened to the public.
Prague
Agnes of Bohemia founded a community for Poor Clares and Friars Minor.
Provence
Madame de Sévigné makes three long stays at Grignan.
Jeanne de Flandreysy acquires the Palais du Roure.
Alexandra David-Neel acquires her Digne home.
Dora Maar acquires her Ménerbes house.
Puerto Vallarta
Francisca Rodríguez came to Las Peñas to teach.
Teresa Barba Palomera served as an education councilor.
Teresa Barba Palomera entered Jalisco's legislature.
Quebec City
Marie Rollet arrives with Louis Hébert and their children.
Augustinian sisters establish care at Hôtel-Dieu.
Marie Guyart and the Ursulines establish education for girls.
A house is built for Madame de La Peltrie.
A women's teacher-training section opens in the Ursuline building.
Québec adopts women's provincial voting and candidacy rights.
Claire Martin publishes Dans un gant de fer.
Queenstown
Mary Williams owns the cottage
Julia Eichardt owns the hotel
Mary Jane Mulholland signs suffrage petition
Mary Jane Mulholland dies
Reykjavik
Bríet helps found the Icelandic Women's Rights Association.
Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason becomes the first woman in parliament.
Anna Sigurðardóttir and two colleagues establish the Women's History Archives.
Women take a day off paid and unpaid work.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir serves as president.
The Women's History Archives becomes a special unit of the National Library.
Rhodes
Stella Levi survives deportation and later records memories
Riga
Beļcova paints portraits of actress Anta Klints.
Artists’ apartment museum opens following Tatjana Suta’s bequest.
Anna Gertrud Vērmane gives land and money for a public garden.
Rome
Anna Maria Babington and Isabel Cargill open their tea room.
Rovinj
Archduchess Maria Theresa supported the initiative that produced the children's seaside resort in 1888.
Barbara Hütterott helped rescue a quarry worker in 1930; her bravery award followed in 1931 and presentation in 1932.
Mila Vod created the wax mask covering Euphemia's face.
Salzburg
Refugee nuns establish Loreto convent
Maria Anna Mozart
Caroline Auguste’s Salzburg patronage
Irma von Troll-Borostyáni publishes on women’s rights
Rosa Kerschbaumer’s eye clinic
Lilli Lehmann directs Don Giovanni
Erentrudis leads Nonnberg
Salzburg to Hallstatt & the Lakes
Anna Maria Pertl is born in St. Gilgen.
Nannerl Mozart lives in St. Gilgen after marriage.
San Diego
Sessions’s nursery ordinance formalized tree planting in return for park use.
Lydia Knapp Horton became the Wednesday Club’s first president.
The Carnegie-funded library opened after Lydia Horton’s fundraising work.
Belle Benchley joined the zoo as a bookkeeper and gained operational control.
Ellen Browning Scripps founded Scripps College.
Clara Breed corresponded with incarcerated Japanese American young people.
Belle Benchley retired after 26 years directing zoo operations.
Niki de Saint Phalle lived and worked in La Jolla.
Christine Kehoe was elected San Diego’s first openly gay or lesbian city official.
San Francisco
Juana Briones operates a rancho near Yerba Buena.
Mary Ellen Pleasant arrives in San Francisco.
Julia Morgan becomes California’s first licensed woman architect.
Ina Coolbrith is honored as California poet laureate.
Julia Morgan remodels the Hearst Building’s lobby and elevators.
San Miguel de Allende
María Josefa Lina pursues the Concepción convent project
San Sebastián
Katalina Eleizegi born in San Sebastián
Felisa Martín Bravo completes her physics doctorate
Santa Barbara
The Lone Woman, baptized Juana María, died in Santa Barbara.
Ganna Walska purchased the future Lotusland.
Santa Fe
Maria Martinez born at San Ildefonso Pueblo; NPS retains both possible years.
Nina Otero-Warren leads the state Congressional Union suffrage campaign.
Mary Cabot Wheelwright meets Hastiin Klah.
Maria Chabot comes to Santa Fe.
Olive Rush paints a literacy-themed fresco.
Dorothy McKibbin begins work at 109 East Palace.
O’Keeffe settles permanently in New Mexico.
Florence Dibell Bartlett’s Museum of International Folk Art opens.
O’Keeffe dies in Santa Fe aged 98.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum opens in July.
Savannah
Mary Telfair was born.
Juliette Gordon Low was born in Savannah.
Florence Martus greeted passing ships for 44 years.
Juliette Gordon Low founded the American Girl Guide movement in Savannah.
Anna Colquitt Hunter joined the Davenport rescue group, described as seven women by HSF and eight by the New Georgia…
The city announced a February 10 dedication of Taylor Square following the previous year's renaming.
Seattle
Bertha Knight Landes serves her mayoral term.
Boeing recruits women nationally and houses trainees in the Denny Regrade.
Cecile Hansen begins her tenure as Duwamish chairwoman.
Sedona
Ruth Woolf married Walter Jordan; their farm began planting fruit trees.
Jack and Helen Frye purchased Smoke Trail Ranch.
Tanning returned to Sedona after time abroad.
Peggy Lanning moved Turquoise Tortoise Gallery to Sedona.
Peggy Lanning opened Lanning Gallery.
The city purchased the Jordan farmstead using a bequest from Stella Carruth’s estate.
Seoul
Min became queen consort through marriage to Gojong.
Mary F. Scranton began women’s classes in Jeongdong.
Chun Kyung-ja donated 93 of her own works to SeMA.
Seville
María Luisa Fernanda donates palace gardens
Chonín Navarro moves from Seville to San Sebastián
Chonín Navarro returns to Seville
Sicily: Taormina & Syracuse
Florence Trevelyan marries Salvatore Cacciola
Singapore
Maria Tarn Dyer established the girls' school later known as St Margaret's.
Agnes Joaquim's orchid hybrid was described by Henry Ridley.
Lai Foong Moi returned from training in France to Singapore.
Shirin Fozdar helped form the Singapore Council of Women.
Chen's NAFA teaching period is given as 1954-1980 by SCWO, while the Gallery's 2014 account says retirement in 1981.
Vanda Miss Joaquim became the national flower.
Sintra
Constança Gomes Piriquita founded the pastry house.
Elise Hensler and Ferdinand II built their chalet.
Elise Hensler married Ferdinand II.
Split
Cata Dujšin Ribar moves to Split and studies with Emanuel Vidović.
Stavanger
Othilie Tonning was born on Lindøy in today's Stavanger.
Frida Hansen won international recognition with a gold medal at the Paris exhibition.
Stavanger's women canning workers formed their own union in March.
Elisabeth Edland's grave received an eight-meter memorial with Ambrosia Tønnesen's portrait relief.
Olga Berentsen established the basis for preserving Breidablikk's grounds, home and furnishings.
Liv Ullmann made her acting debut at Rogaland Teater in The Diary of Anne Frank.
After Olga Berentsen's death, the city took responsibility for the park and the museum for the house.
Elsa Nordvang led the theater's children's department.
Stockholm
Fredrika Bremer publishes Hertha.
Hilma af Klint studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Hilma af Klint and four companions form The Five.
Anna Lindhagen enters Stockholm City Council.
Selma Lagerlöf joins the Swedish Academy.
Food shortages provoke the potato riots.
Strasbourg
Marcelle Cahn is born in Strasbourg.
Simone Veil becomes president of the directly elected European Parliament.
Sydney
Mary Reibey arrives as a transported convict.
Mary Reibey assumes control of the family’s businesses after her husband’s death.
Pearl Gibbs moves to Sydney for domestic work.
Jessie Street serves as Australia’s only woman delegate at the founding UN conference.
Women campaigning for Kelly’s Bush enlist the Builders Labourers Federation.
Taipei
Chen Chin painted Accordion.
Tsai Jui-yueh established her dance school in a Japanese-style house.
Tsai Jui-yueh’s studio received heritage designation and then suffered a serious fire.
Tsai Jui-yueh’s reconstructed institute reopened.
TFAM exhibited five generations of women’s modern art.
Tenerife
María Rosa Alonso teaches at the University of La Laguna.
Maribel Nazco belongs to the Nuestro Arte circle.
TEA mounts a Maribel Nazco retrospective.
Thessaloniki
Poet Zoi Karelli is born in Thessaloniki.
Aliki and Nestor Telloglou marry and begin collecting around this time.
Tokyo
Hasegawa Machiko begins Sazae-san.
Toronto
Emily Stowe opens a Toronto medical practice after training in New York.
Stowe helps establish a medical college for women.
Agnes Macphail becomes Canada's first elected woman MP.
Macphail becomes one of Ontario's first two women MPPs.
Jean Lumb is appointed to the Order of Canada.
Turku
Hélène and Alfred Jacobsson’s bequest becomes Ett Hem
Valencia
Isabel de Villena's lifetime
Concha Piquer born in Valencia
Concha Piquer House Museum opens
Vancouver
Rosemary Brown wins the Vancouver-Burrard provincial seat
Venice
Caterina Cornaro relinquishes Cyprus
Elena Cornaro Piscopia earns a philosophy degree
Peggy Guggenheim establishes her Venetian presence
Verona
Isotta Nogarola lives and writes in Verona; Treccani gives 1418–1466, while Nogarole Rocca’s history says she died in…
Maddalena di Canossa establishes the Daughters of Charity.
Victoria
Isabella Mainville Ross becomes a registered landowner.
Isabella Ross dies and is buried at Ross Bay.
Jennie Butchart transforms the quarry into a garden.
Mary Ellen Smith enters the B.C. legislature.
Mary Ellen Smith joins cabinet without portfolio.
Women work as streetcar conductors during wartime demand.
Emily Carr dies in Victoria.
Nancy Hodges becomes Speaker of the B.C. legislature.
A plaque is installed at Isabella Ross's grave.
Vienna
Maria Theresa directs the enlargement and decoration of Schönbrunn.
Bertha von Suttner publishes her antiwar novel and later receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rosa Mayreder serves as vice president of the General Austrian Women’s Association.
Lise Meitner earns her physics doctorate at the University of Vienna.
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky develops the Frankfurt Kitchen.
Schütte-Lihotzky’s former apartment opens to visitors.
Warsaw
Irena Sendler heads Żegota's children's division.
Washington DC
National Woman’s Party members picketed the White House.
Alice Paul developed and launched her Equal Rights Amendment campaign.
The National Woman’s Party bought its Capitol Hill house.
Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women.
Bethune became director of the National Youth Administration’s Division of Negro Affairs.
York
Mary Ward dies after a life devoted to women's religious and educational work.
Frances Bedingfield founds the Bar Convent.
Elizabeth Montagu is born into a family living at the property now called Treasurer's House.
Anne Lister and Ann Walker share communion on March 30 to mark their commitment.
The Minster introduces girl choristers alongside boys.
Zadar
Čika founds St. Mary’s Benedictine convent
Elizabeth of Bosnia commissions St. Simeon’s chest
Melia Aniana’s memorial arch
Zagreb
Zagorka entered the Obzor newsroom.
Zurich
Nadezhda Suslova earns a UZH medical doctorate.
Lydia Welti-Escher establishes the Gottfried Keller Foundation.
Kempin-Spyri gains teaching authorization and begins lecturing at UZH.
The pavilion commissioned by Heidi Weber is completed.
UZH honors Kempin-Spyri with Pipilotti Rist’s Chaiselongue.