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Elizabeth Parsons Ware marries Rev. Theophilus Packard. |
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Dorothea Dix begins her crusade to research and improve conditions for the mentally ill and prisoners. |
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First convention on women’s rights held at Seneca Falls, New York. |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin published. |
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Sigmund Freud born. |
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John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. Darwin’s Origin of the Species published. |
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Florence Nightingale founds nursing school. Elizabeth Packard is committed to Jacksonville Insane Asylum. |
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Vassar College established as the first women’s college with facilities equal to those found in men’s colleges. |
| Civil War. |
| Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. Elizabeth Packard is declared “incurable” and discharged from Jacksonville. |
| The words “In God We Trust” appear on a U.S. coin for the first time. Trial of Packard vs. Packard. |
| Lincoln assassinated. |
