The table below shows key events in the struggle for women's suffrage in America.
Also see the state-by-state timeline and the international timeline.
Timeline
| 1837 | Young teacher Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers. |
| 1848 |
July 14: call to a woman's rights convention appeared in a Seneca County, New York, newspaper. July 19-20: Woman's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, issuing the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments |
| 1850 | October: first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. |
| 1851 | Sojourner Truth defends woman's rights and "Negroes' rights" at a women's convention in Akron, Ohio. |
| 1855 | Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell married in a ceremony renouncing the legal authority of a husband over a wife, and Stone kept her last name. |
| 1866 | American Equal Rights Association to join causes of black suffrage and women's suffrage |
| 1868 |
New England Woman Suffrage Association founded to focus on woman suffrage; dissolves in a split in just another year. January 8: first issue of The Revolution appeared. |
| 1869 |
American Equal Rights Association splits. National Woman Suffrage Association founded primarily by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. November: American Woman Suffrage Association founded in Cleveland, created primarily by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Julia Ward Howe. December 10: Wyoming territory passed a law permitting women to vote. |
| 1872 |
Republican Party platform included a reference to woman suffrage. Campaign was initiated by Susan B. Anthony to encourage women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification. November 5: Susan B. Anthony and others attempted to vote; some, including Anthony, are arrested. |
| June 1873 | Susan B. Anthony was tried for "illegally" voting. |
| 1878 | January 10: The "Anthony Amendment" to extend the vote to women was introduced into the United States Congress. First Senate committee hearing on the Anthony Amendment. |
| 1880 | Lucretia Mott died. |
| 1887 | Three volumes of a history of the woman suffrage effort were published, written primarily by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Mathilda Jocelyn Gage. |
| 1890 | American Woman Suffrage Association and National Woman Suffrage Association merge into the National American Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 1893 | Colorado passed a referendum giving women the vote. Lucy Stone died. |
| 1887 | January 25: The United States Senate voted on woman suffrage for the first time -- and also for the last time in 25 years. |
| 1896 | Utah and Idaho passed woman suffrage laws. |
| 1900 | Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 1902 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton died. |
| 1904 | Anna Howard Shaw became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 1906 | Susan B. Anthony died. |
| 1910 | Washington State established woman suffrage. |
| 1912 | May 4: Women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the vote. |
| 1913 | Women in Illinois were given the vote in most elections -- the first state East of the Mississippi to pass a woman suffrage law. Alice Paul formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, first within the National American Woman Suffrage Association. May 4: About 5,000 paraded for woman suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. |
| 1914 | The Congressional Union split from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 1915 | Carrie Chapman Catt elected to presidency of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 1916 | The Congressional Union recreated itself as the National Woman's Party. |
| 1917 | National American Woman Suffrage Association officers meet with President Wilson. (photo) National Woman's Party began picketing the White House. June: Arrests began of pickets at the White House. Montana elected Jeannette Rankin to the United States Congress. |
| 1918 | January 10: House of Representatives passed the Anthony Amendment but the Senate failed to pass it. March: A court declared invalid the White House suffrage protest arrests. |
| 1919 | May 21: United States House of Representatives passed the Anthony Amendment again. June 4: United States Senate approved the Anthony Amendment. |
| 1920 | August 18: Tennessee legislature ratified the Anthony Amendment by a single vote, giving the Amendment the necessary states for ratification. August 24: Tennessee governor signed the Anthony Amendment. August 26: United States Secretary of State signed the Anthony Amendment into law. |
| 1923 | Equal Rights Amendment introduced into the United States Congress. |
