United States 1828

Synopsis

In December 1828 the first all-female strike in America took place in Dover, New Hampshire. The strike was the workers' response to the imposition of additional rules for factory employees, which included docking employees 12.5 cents of pay for being late by even one minute, blacklisting to prevent fired women from finding employment in any New England factory, and forbidding any talking between employees while at work.

Timeline

• 1803: German pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Saturner isolates an opium derivative, to which he gives the name morphine.
• 1808: First performances of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth symphonies are given.
• 1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
• 1818: British surgeon James Blundel performs the first successful blood transfusion.
• 1823: U.S. president James Monroe establishes the Monroe Doctrine, whereby the United States warns European nations not to interfere in the political affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
• 1826: Friction or "Lucifer" matches in...