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suffrage - events| 1777 | AMERICA | New York adopts a constitution denying women, even those with property, the right to vote. | | 8 May 1838 | UK | The 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. | | 1889 | New Zealand | Manhood suffrage, the right of adult male citizens to vote, is granted in New Zealand. | | April 1905 | USA | In 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 1907 | Austria-Hungary | Following a long campaign for reform, a bill that extends suffrage to all males aged 24 or over is passed in Austria. | | 14 June 1907 | Norway | Female suffrage is introduced in Norway. | | 30 April 1911 | Portugal | Portuguese women get the vote. | | 3 April 1913 | United Kingdom | Militant 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 1918 | Denmark | Universal suffrage is granted in Denmark. | | 9 May 1919 | Belgium | Universal suffrage is granted in Belgium. | | 26 May 1919 | Sweden | Women's suffrage is granted in Sweden. | | 9 August 1919 | Netherlands | Universal suffrage is granted in the Netherlands. | | 12 May 1928 | Italy | An 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 1930 | South Africa | White women are enfranchised in South Africa. | | 15 December 1945 | Japan | The Japanese parliament, under pressure from Allied occupation forces, grants women voting rights. | | 1946 | Mexico | Mexican women gain the right to vote on the same basis as men. |
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