1837: Young teacher Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers.
July 14, 1848: call to a woman's rights convention appeared in a Seneca County, New York, newspaper.
July 19-20, 1848: Woman's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York.
October, 1850: 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.
January 8, 1868: first issue of The Revolution appeared.
1868: New England Woman Suffrage Association founded to focus on woman suffrage; dissolves in a split in just another year.
1869: National Woman Suffrage Association founded primarily by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
November 1869: American Woman Suffrage Association founded in Cleveland, created primarily by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Julia Ward Howe.
December 10, 1869: Wyoming territory passed a law permitting women to vote.
1872: Republican Party platform included a reference to woman suffrage.
1872: 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, 1872: Susan B. Anthony and others attempted to vote; some, including Anthony, are arrested.
June 1873: Susan B. Anthony was tried for "illegally" voting.
January 10, 1878: The "Anthony Amendment" to extend the vote to women was introduced into the United States Congress.
1878: 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.
1893: Lucy Stone died.
January 25, 1887: 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.
May 4, 1912: Women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the vote.
May 4, 1913: About 5,000 paraded for woman suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
1913: Women in Illinois were given the vote in most elections -- the first state East of the Mississippi to pass a woman suffrage law.
1913: Alice Paul formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, first within the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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)
1917: National Woman's Party began picketing the White House.
June 1917: Arrests began of pickets at the White House.
1917: Montana elected Jeannette Rankin to the United States Congress.
March 1918: A court declared invalid the White House suffrage protest arrests.
January 10, 1918: House of Representatives passed the Anthony Amendment but the Senate failed to pass it.
May 21, 1919: United States House of Representatives passed the Anthony Amendment again.
June 4, 1919: United States Senate approved the Anthony Amendment.
August 18, 1920: Tennessee legislature ratified the Anthony Amendment by a single vote, giving the Amendment the necessary states for ratification.
August 24, 1920: Tennessee governor signed the Anthony Amendment.
August 26, 1920: United States Secretary of State signed the Anthony Amendment into law.
1923: Equal Rights Amendment introduced into the United States Congress.
