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1777AMERICANew York adopts a constitution denying women, even those with property, the right to vote.
8 May 1838UKThe Working Men's Association in Britain, led by the Irish parliamentarian Feargus O'Connor, draws up the People's Charter, demanding universal male suffrage, vote by secret ballot, annual parliaments, payment of members of Parliament, abolition of the property qualification for members of Parliament, and the equalization of electoral districts.
1889New ZealandManhood suffrage, the right of adult male citizens to vote, is granted in New Zealand.
April 1905USAIn an article in Ladies' Home Journal, former US president Grover Cleveland claims that woman do not need to vote because men have greater intelligence.
26 January 1907Austria-HungaryFollowing a long campaign for reform, a bill that extends suffrage to all males aged 24 or over is passed in Austria.
14 June 1907NorwayFemale suffrage is introduced in Norway.
30 April 1911PortugalPortuguese women get the vote.
3 April 1913United KingdomMilitant suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst is imprisoned in Britain for inciting persons to place explosives outside the house of the chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George.
21 April 1918DenmarkUniversal suffrage is granted in Denmark.
9 May 1919BelgiumUniversal suffrage is granted in Belgium.
26 May 1919SwedenWomen's suffrage is granted in Sweden.
9 August 1919NetherlandsUniversal suffrage is granted in the Netherlands.
12 May 1928ItalyAn Italian law abolishes female suffrage, reduces the electorate from 10 million to 3 million, and arranges for 400 government candidates to be accepted or rejected en bloc.
19 May 1930South AfricaWhite women are enfranchised in South Africa.
15 December 1945JapanThe Japanese parliament, under pressure from Allied occupation forces, grants women voting rights.
1946MexicoMexican women gain the right to vote on the same basis as men.


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