History EOY (The Campaign for Women's Suffrage)

1869

Women given the right to vote in local elections

1897

Suffragists (non-violent) founded by Millicent Fawcett

1903

Suffragettes founded by Emmeline Pankhurst with the motto: ‘deeds not words’

1910

‘Black Friday’: Mass arrests as a large crowd of suffragettes try to break into Parliament

1912

Suffragette Mary Leigh throws a hatchet at Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and Suffragettes launch a campaign of property destruction e.g. stone-throwing, arson

1913

Suffragette Emily Davison dies after jumping in front of the king’s horse at the Derby

1914

Emmeline Pankhurst pauses the suffragette campaign of violence when WW1 begins

1914-1918

Women do many jobs traditionally performed by men e.g. farming and factory work

1918

Women aged over 30 given the right to vote and stand in parliamentary elections and Constance Markievicz is the first woman elected to Parliament

1928

Voting age for women lowered to 21 (equal with men)

1969

Voting age for men and women lowered to 18

1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female UK Prime Minister