Accession as Byzantine empress.
Theodora becomes Eastern Roman empress as Justinian I ascends the throne.
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Theodora becomes Eastern Roman empress as Justinian I ascends the throne.
View detailsOn 1 April 1764, Nicole-Reine Lepaute’s calculations accurately predicted the duration and extent of an annular solar eclipse visible across Europe.
View detailsThe annular solar eclipse she had calculated occurred on 1 April 1764, confirming her astronomical work.
View detailsMarie-Sophie Germain was born in Paris into a wealthy bourgeois family during the French Revolution.
View detailsBegins her Ottoman-sanctioned excavation at Ashkelon, widely regarded as the first modern archaeological dig in Palestine and the Holy Land.
View detailsFry helped establish a pioneering women-led organization providing education and work programs for imprisoned women and children at Newgate.
View detailsA report recognized Gibbon's street railway track improvements.
View detailsAlberta Hunter was born on April 1, 1895, in Memphis, Tennessee, to a working-class African American family.
View detailsBy April 1895, Harriet Powers sold her Bible Quilt to Jennie Smith for $5.
View detailsPotter's paper 'On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae' was read to the Linnean Society by George Massee, as women could not attend.
View detailsHarriet Powers completed her Pictorial Quilt around April 1898.
View detailsPavlova debuted as Eos in 'The Awakening of Flora' in April 1900.
View detailsMorgan opened her own architectural office in San Francisco's financial district, one of the earliest woman-led architecture practices in the city.
View detailsBarton founded the National First Aid Association of America, advancing civilian first-aid education and preparedness in her later years.
View detailsAppointed as superintendent of pioneering Women's Protective Division of Portland Police.
View detailsFirst woman hired under civil service rules as a full-time, paid law enforcement officer in the U.S.
View detailsFirst municipal policewoman and first woman hired by a U.S. municipality for regular enforcement duties.
View detailsSarah Delany became NYC's first African American high school teacher in 1920.
View detailsLadd-Franklin's book synthesizing decades of her color vision research was published.
View detailsNamed one of ten outstanding women in the United States, honoring her industrial and New Deal reform leadership.
View detailsAmerican Midland Naturalist published Clover and Jotter's "Floristic Studies of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River," the first comprehensive scientific catalog of the river's flora.
View detailsCompleted the early version of "Requiem" on April 1, 1940.
View detailsIn April 1943 Simone Weil is hospitalized at Grosvenor Sanatorium in Ashford, Kent, with tuberculosis and severe malnutrition brought on by wartime austerity.
View detailsToni Stone reported for spring training with the Indianapolis Clowns, making history.
View detailsLiberty Clarissa "Libby" Riddles was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 1, 1956.
View detailsClytemnestra premiered on April 1, 1958, Graham's only full-length work.
View detailsHelena Rubinstein died in New York City on April 1, 1965, leaving behind a global cosmetics empire and a legacy as one of the world's wealthiest women.
View detailsFrench's landmark feminist novel 'The Women's Room' was published, becoming a bestselling touchstone of second-wave feminism.
View detailsReceives the Broderick Cup as the nation’s top female collegiate athlete, capping her Old Dominion career.
View detailsBecomes the first and only two-time winner of the Wade Trophy as national women’s collegiate player of the year.
View detailsBlume received the award (then called the School Library Journal Award) from the American Library Association for lasting contribution to YA literature.
View detailsRuane Jeter introduced the innovative Tiltster toaster to the market in April 1987.
View detailsIn 1988 Annie M.G. Schmidt became the first Dutch author to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international honor in children's literature.
View detailsDelany published "Having Our Say" at 104, chronicling 100 years.
View detailsLewis became chef-in-residence at Middleton Place Plantation, interpreting Lowcountry and Southern cuisines in a historic setting.
View detailsOctavia Butler became the first science fiction writer to win the prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship.
View detailsEntered the 15th National Assembly as a member of parliament representing the Grand National Party.
View detailsMisty Copeland joined ABT as a member of the corps de ballet.
View detailsCo-authored paper in American Journal of Human Genetics on genetic causes of sclerosteosis.
View detailsThe Massachusetts legislature honored Lydia Taft by naming a stretch of Route 146A in Uxbridge the 'Lydia Taft Highway.'
View detailsRachel Corrie’s writings were published in her book 'Let Me Stand Alone.'
View detailsReceived AAES John Fritz Medal, a top U.S. engineering honor.
View detailsOuten set off from London for her global circumnavigation expedition.
View detailsLeila Denmark passed away on April 1, 2012, at the age of 114.
View detailsMisty Copeland danced the title role in Alexei Ratmansky’s new "Firebird."
View detailsAnnounced plans to be the first woman to row the North Pacific Ocean.
View detailsBecame youngest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at age 19.
View detailsMattel released its first Barbie doll with Down syndrome, expanding representation of people with disabilities within the Barbie line.
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