#OnThisDay in #history - in 1846, Sophie Menter was born in #Germany - the daughter of two musicians, young Sophie was trained in #piano and played with orchestras by the time she was 15. Sophie was admired as a virtuoso during her lifetime and was very popular, playing concerts all over. She become a member of #England 's Royal Philharmonic Society and a professor at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, but left as she preferred performing to teaching. #music #OTD#histodons#musician@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1609, Judith Leijster was baptized in the #Netherlands - the daughter of a brewer, she likely started art lessons to help pay for her family's needs. By 1629, she'd painted her first known/signed work and by 1633 she was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke (possibly the first woman member!). Well-respected by her contemporaries, she saw success in her lifetime, but she was forgotten, her works attributed to someone else, until 1893. #OTD#histodons@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1740 Jeanne Baret was born in #France - she was the first known woman to circumnavigate the globe. Jeanne accompanied her partner, Philibert Commerson, on a sea voyage in 1766 to Tahiti, and acted as his valet and assistant. To do so, she dressed as a man, assumed the name "Jean", and claimed she was a eunuch. After Commerson's death, she ran a tavern in Mauritius and eventually returned to France, which finished her trip around the Earth. #OTD@histodons#histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1603 Anna of Denmark became perhaps the most coronated British consort in history by celebrating her second coronation. Her first was a solo coronation as Queen of Scots in 1590 (as her husband James; was in 1567). Her second was as Queen of #England and #Ireland - her husband inheriting the throne from the last Tudor, Elizabeth I. Kept somewhat lowkey due to plague, she had her ceremonial Entry in 1604. #histodons#OTD#Scotland#Britain @royalhistory@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1954, Mary Eliza Terrell (nee Church) died in Maryland, #USA .
Born in 1863 in Tennessee, her parents were both freed but recently enslaved people.
She was one of the first Black American women to earn a bachelor's degree, later becoming a teacher.
In 1892, she helped found the Colored Women's League in DC, and joined the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights (she was also a founding member of the NAACP). #OTD#histodons#civilrights#activist@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - the French trial of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, began in 1917. Born in the Netherlands, a neutral country in #WWI , Margaretha spent her adult life traveling and after her marriage broke up, she returned to Europe from Indonesia. By 1903, she began performing and was popular. Banking on her networks, the French wanted to use her to spy on the Germans during the War, but ended up executing her as a traitor instead. #histodons@histodons#OTD
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1598, The Merchant of Venice by William #Shakespeare is entered into the Stationer's Register. While the play had been written and performed before this, paying for it to be put on the Register allowed for them to claim printing rights on the work.
Those rights were later transferred to Thomas Heyes, who printed the play in the First Quarto in 1600, providing some textual basis for the 1623 First Folio collection. https://stationersregister.online/ #OTD#histodons@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 710, Dowager Empress Wei of Tang Dynasty #China was beheaded by a rival court faction. Wei had been a significant power behindher husband, Zhongzong's, throne, and after Zhongsong's death, attempted to assume regency powers on behalf of husband's young son, Emperor Shang. Then she attempted to take power for herself, like her mother-in-law Wu Zetian did. She was not as successful as Zetian, or for as long, and was overthrown. #histodons@histodons#OTD@royalhistory
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1591 Anne Hutchinson (nee Marbury) was baptized in #England - Anne's spiritual convictions led to her trial, conviction, & expulsion from Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Antinomian Controversy.
A follower of John Cotton, Anne believed in 'absolute grace', a grace not brought of works (but of faith alone), and was eloquently vocal of her support of his interpretation. She reached women through her midwifery and weekly Bible study meetings. #OTD#histodons@histodons
#OnThisDay - in Seneca Falls in 1848 a group of around 250 women gathered for 2 days to debate, orate, & create their Declaration of Sentiments which called for women's property rights and equal suffrage (men were allowed to attend, but they were not invited to speak on the first day).
The Seneca Falls Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, was the first known convention in #history to be dedicated solely to the subject of women's rights. #histodons#OTD@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1724, Maria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa was born in #Germany - fascinated and talented at #music#performance and #composition from an early age, she was made a member of Accademia dell’Arcadia of Rome in 1747. Maria published her operas anonymously under the name EPTA. Through marriage she was Electress of #Saxony and was regent for her son from 1763-1768. She died in Dresden, aged 55. #OTD#histodons@royalhistory@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1918, Anna Demidova was killed by the Bolsheviks with the Romanov family. Anna was the daughter of a merchant & had gone to a school intended to educate her to be a maid-in-waiting for the royals. She earned a teaching certificate from there as well.
Anna went into exile with the Romanovs, & was executed alongside them, surviving the first round of bullets thanks gems sewn into a pillow. When found alive, she was stabbed to death. #OTD#histodons#Russia@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1862, Ida B. Wells was born into #slavery in Mississippi. Later, she enrolled in Shaw College (now Rust College), where her father was a trustee. She moved to Tennessee where she taught, attended uni, & fought segregationist policies. After a friend was lynched, she began to investigate lynchings and publishing her findings in pamphlets such as Southern Horrors and The Red Record. She was politically active in Chicago & left a legacy. #OTD#histodons@histodons#USA
#OnThisDay in #history - Germaine de Staël died in 1817 at age 51. A native of #France Germaine was the daughter of Jacques Necker. A budding intellectual from an early age, Germaine sat in on salons run by her mother and refused to marry someone who wasn't intellectually stimulating to her.
As an adult, she ran her own salons and published political treatises (seen as proton-feminist) and novels (which caused Napoleon to exile her from Paris). #histodons#OTD@histodons#writer#author