New Zealand women win the vote
The first country where women vote in national elections
On 19 September 1893 the governor signed the Electoral Act, making New Zealand the first self-governing country where women could vote in parliamentary elections. The campaign was led by Kate Sheppard; that year's petitions gathered nearly 32,000 signatures. Ten weeks later, on 28 November, about two-thirds of the country's women voted, Māori women included. They could not stand for parliament until 1919.
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Women in New Zealand have voted in parliamentary elections since 1893, a quarter of a century before those in Britain, Germany or Russia.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 21 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 25 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 7 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 4 years earlier
- 1889 Van Gogh's The Starry Night — 4 years earlier
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — 2 years later
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 2 years later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 12 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 15 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 24 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 12 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 15 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 15 years later
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 22 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 23 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 8 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 8 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 7 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 4 years later
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 11 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 10 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 8 years earlier
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 2 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 1 year later
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 1 year later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 17 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 14 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 5 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 10 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 74)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 65)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 59)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 53)
- Thomas Edison (aged 46)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 37)
- Marie Curie (aged 26)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 24)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 23)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 22)