1906
The word "suffragette" was first used to describe women campaigning for the right to vote.
1913
Emily Wilding Davison throws herself under the King's horse at the Epsom Derby and is killed.
1918
Representation of the people bill, doubles the electorate, giving the parliamentary vote to about six million women.
1919
Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons.
1928
Women given the vote at the age of 21 - the same as men.
1929
Margaret Bondfield becomes the first women cabinet minister.
1931
Family Planning Association formed.
1945
By the end of the war there were 460,000 women in the military and over 6.5 million in civilian war work.
1967
Abortion Act introduced.
1970
The first British conference of the Women's Liberation Movement in Oxford resolved to press for employment legislation.
1970
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer and The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir published.
1972
Cosmopolitan magazine launched in Britain.
1973
Carmen Calil forms the first feminist publishing house, Virago.
1975
The Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act come into effect and equal opportunities commission established.
1983
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value Amendment for the Equal Pay Act.
1986
Scottish law lords ruled for the first time that sexual harassment is sex discrimination that can be challenged under the law.
1994
Trade Union reform and Employment Rights Act guarantees every working woman the right to maternity leave for the first time.
1997
120 women win seats in the general election.
2001
Government introduces bill to improve women's political representation.
2003
Gender pay gap still at 19%.