Timeline

Introduction
Alphabetical Picture Index

B.C.

Eve
Pandora
Mladeč c. 29,000 years ago
Ava c. 1800 BC
Tamar c. 1700 BC
Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt r. 1479-1458 BC
Andromeda c. 1350 BC
Helen of Troy c. 1200 BC
Deborah c. 1200 BC-c. 1124 BC
Circe c. 1185 BC
Samson and Delilah ca. 1100 BC
Ruth c. 1100 BC
Bathsheba c. 990 BC
Queen of Sheba c. 950 BC
Jezebel d. 852 BC
Sappho c. 630–c. 570 BC
Judith c. 600 BC
Artemisia of Caria 480 BC
Hydna of Scione 480 BC
Esther c. 470s BC
Cleopatra 69 BC-30 BC
Livia 59 BC-29 AD
Mary, Mother of Jesus c. 18 BC-c. 33 AD

A.D.

Salome c. 14-c. 62
Agrippina the Younger c. 15 – c. 59
Boudica c. 30-c. 61
Vibia Sabina 83-c.136 AD
Queen Zenobia of Palmyra c.240-c.274
Hypatia of Alexandria c.360-415
Theodora 490-548
Hua Mulan 500 AD
Lady MacBeth c.1015-1057
Lady Godiva c. 1070s
Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122-1204
Ophelia 1300s/1400s
Joan of Arc 1412-1431
Elizabeth Woodville 1437-1492
Queen Isabella I of Castile 1451-1504
Anacaona 1474-1504
Lucrezia Borgia 1480-1519
Catherine of Aragon 1485-1536
La Malinche ca. 1500-ca. 1529
Anne Boleyn 1507-1536
Jane Seymour 1509-1537
Catherine Parr 1512-1548
Anne of Cleves 1515-1547
Queen Mary I of England 1516-1558
Catherine de Medici 1519-1589
Catherine Howard 1523-1542
Elizabeth I of England 1533-1603
Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587
Elizabeth Bathory 1560-1614
Nur Jahan 1577-1645
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba c. 1583-1663
Mumtaz Mahal 1593-1631
Pocahontas c.1596-1617
Gertrude c. 1600-1628
Margaret Cavendish 1623-1673
Sophia of Hanover 1630-1714
Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine 1640-1709
Nell Gwyn 1650-1687
Mary of Modena 1658-1718
Queen Mary II of Great Britain 1662-1694
Queen Anne of Great Britain 1665-1714
Salem witch trials 1692-1693

18th Century

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria 1717-1780
Madame de Pompadour 1721-1764
Catherine II of Russia 1729-1796
Martha Washington 1731-1802
Abigail Adams 1744-1818
Judith Sargent Murray 1751-1820
Betsy Ross 1752-1836
Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784
Molly Pitcher 1754-1832
Marie Antoinette 1755-1793
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun 1755-1842
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
Peggy Shippen 1760-1804
Deborah Sampson 1760-1827
Josephine Bonaparte 1763-1814
Maria Reynolds 1768-1847
Dolley Madison 1768-1849
Elizabeth Monroe 1768-1830
Martha Jefferson Randolph 1772-1836
Sally Hemings 1773-1834
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774-1821
Jane Austen 1775-1817
Molly Pitcher 1770s
Marie Paradis 1778-1839
Ranavalona I 1778-1861
Mary Somerville 1780-1872
Sacagawea 1788?-1812?
Sarah Josepha Hale 1788-1879
Henriette D'Angeville 1791-1871
Marie Louise of Austria 1791-1847
Lucretia Mott 1793-1880
Policarpa Salavarrieta 1795-1817
Mary Shelley 1797-1851
Sojourner Truth 1797-1883
Mary Anning 1799-1847

19th Century

Dorothea Dix 1802-1887
Sarah Polk 1803-1891
George Sand 1804-1876
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861
Emily Donelson 1807-1836
Fanny Kemble 1809-1893
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
Fox Sisters 1813-1893
Rose O'Neal Greenhow 1814-1864
Angela Burdett-Coutts 1814-1904
Grace Darling 1815-1842
Ada Lovelace 1815-1852
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
Bronte Sisters 1816-1855
Priscilla Cooper Tyler 1816-1889
Angelica Van Buren 1818-1877
Mary Todd Lincoln 1818-1882
Lucy Stone 1818-1893
George Eliot 1819-1880
Queen Victoria of England 1819-1901
Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
Lola Montez 1821-1861
Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910
Clara Barton 1821-1912
Harriet Tubman 1822-1913
Empress Eugenie de Montijo 1826-1920
Josephine Butler 1828-1906
The Petticoat Affair 1829-1831
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
Helena Blavatsky 1831-1891
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
Mary E. Walker 1832-1919
Pauline Cushman 1833-1893
Elisabeth of Austria 1837-1898
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii 1838-1917
Victoria Woodhull 1838-1927
Empress Carlota of Mexico 1840-1927
Oregon Trail 1843-1869
Cathay Williams 1844-1893
Millicent Fawcett 1847-1929
Annie Besant 1847-1933
Lillie Langtry 1853-1929
Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928
Emma Dupont, born c. 1859
Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947
Annie Oakley 1860-1926
Lizzie Borden 1860-1927
Lillian Russell 1861-1922
Edith Roosevelt 1861-1948
Mary Kingsley 1862-1900
Edith Wharton 1862-1937
Ida B. Wells 1862-1931
Nellie Bly 1864-1922
Frances Cleveland 1864-1947
Billie Barlow 1865-1937
Voltairine de Cleyre 1866-1912
Anne Sullivan 1866-1936
Beatrix Potter 1866-1943
Marie Curie 1867-1934
Anne Sutherland 1867-1942
Charlotte Cooper 1870-1966
Edith Bolling Wilson 1872-1961
Harriet Quimby 1875-1912
Mata Hari 1876-1917
Zitkala-Sa 1876-1938
Isadora Duncan 1877-1927
Lise Meitner 1878-1968
Margaret Sanger 1879-1966
Grace Coolidge 1879-1957
Ethel Barrymore 1879-1959
Marie Stopes 1880-1958
Frances Perkins 1880-1965
Helen Keller 1880-1968
Jeannette Rankin 1880-1973
Raymonde de Laroche 1882-1919
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
Mary Richardson 1882-1961
Maude Fealy 1883-1971
Coco Chanel 1883-1971
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
Evelyn Nesbit 1884-1967
Theda Bara 1885-1955
Alice Paul 1885-1977
Inez Milholland 1886-1916
Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986
Aimee Semple McPherson 1890-1944
Agatha Christie 1890-1976
Lucy Mercer 1891-1948
Bessie Coleman 1892-1926
Mary Pickford 1892-1979
Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Pearl Buck 1892-1973
Lillian Gish 1893-1993
Dorothy Parker 1893-1967
Dorothy Thompson 1893-1961
Wallis Simpson 1896-1986
Amelia Earhart 1897-1937
Marian Anderson 1897-1993
Margaret Chase Smith 1897-1995
Golda Meir 1898-1978
Soong Mei-ling 1898-2003
Gloria Swanson 1899-1983

20th Century

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