A Timeline of Women's Rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Johnstown, New York.

The Missouri Compromise is made.

Andrew Jackson becomes President.

Stanton's education is completed at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton marries her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton.

Stanton meets Lucretia Mott at the first World Anti-Slavery Convention, which they are both barred from attending.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt plan the first woman's rights convention.

Stanton writes the Declaration of Sentiments and reads it at the Seneca Falls convention.

Property rights are given to women in the first state constitution of California.

The first National Women's Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Stanton meets and befriends Susan B. Anthony.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is elected as the president of the Women's New York State Temperance Society.

Stanton, at the age of 39, addresses the New York legislature. She demands equal legal and civil rights for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott attend Anti-Slavery meetings in New York

Abraham Lincoln becomes President.

Stanton and Anthony create the Women's Loyal National League with the goal of freeing slaves and empowering women.

Abraham Lincoln is assasinated.

The American Equal Rights Association is formed with Lucretia Mott as president and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as vice president.

Stanton and Anthony start the suffrage newspaper, The Revolution.

The National Woman Suffrage Association is formed.

The 14th Amendment is ratified where citizens and voters are specifically defined as male.

Stanton forms the American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone and other allies.

Stanton travels throughout the country giving lectures on woman's rights.

Stanton writes the Declaration of Rights of Women of the United States for the U.S. Centennial celebration. She ends up having to deliver a written version of the speech due to the fact that she was denied entry.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage publish the first two volumes of The History of Woman Suffrage.

The third volume of The History of Woman Suffrage is published.

Wyoming is admitted to the Union with a state constitution granting woman suffrage.

The National an the American Woman Suffrage Associations are merged, with Stanton elected as its first resident.

Colorado adopts woman suffrage.

A failed attempt to bring a woman suffrage amendment to voters is made. About 600,000 signatures were presented to the New York Constitutional Convention.

A tribute to Stanton is held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

Stanton publishes The Woman's Bible.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association moves to distance itself from Stanton as they view her to be too radical and therefore dangerous to the chance of woman suffrage.

Utah joins the Union with full suffrage for women.

Idaho adopts woman suffrage.

Stanton's autobiography is published.

Theodore Roosevelt becomes President.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies in New York City.

Washington State adopts woman suffrage.

Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona adopt woman suffrage.

Nevada and Montana adopt woman suffrage.

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts continue to reject woman suffrage.

Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

New York adopts woman suffrage.

Arkansas allows women to vote in primary elections.

Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma adopt woman suffrage.

The 19th Amendment is ratified by Congress, allowing women to vote.