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1914

November

01
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie's X-ray carsIn autumn 1914 Marie Skłodowska-Curie and her daughter Irène set off in the first X-ray car for the front-line hospitals. Soldiers called them "little Curies".

1915

July

17
- Women march for the "right to serve"On 17 July 1915 Emmeline Pankhurst led tens of thousands of women through London in a procession demanding work in the munitions factories.

1917

July

04
- Women's Battalion of DeathOn 4 July 1917 in Petrograd the banner of Maria Bochkareva's women's battalion of death was blessed. The women were meant to shame war-weary soldiers.

November

26
- Death of Elsie InglisOn 26 November 1917 the Scottish doctor Elsie Inglis died in Newcastle. She founded the women's hospitals that treated the wounded in France, Serbia and Russia.

1918

February

06
- British women get the voteOn 6 February 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave the vote to 8.4m British women over 30 and to all men from 21. The electorate nearly tripled.

November