English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960)

Sylvia Pankhurst

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and conferred in Moscow with Lenin.

Born

1882

May 5

Died

1960

Era

1880s

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Sylvia, in brief

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1882 Born
1960 Died

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553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
1192 Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem marries Henry II, Count of Champagne.
1215 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

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The world in 1960

When Sylvia departed

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Adam Hughes 1967– American author and illustrator Archibald Wavell 1883–1950 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883) Gabriel 1530–1574 comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530) Georgios Papadopoulos 1919–1999 Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919) Hiroshi Hase 1961– Japanese wrestler and politician Juan Manuel 1282–1348 Spanish prince (born 1282) Karl Marx 1818–1883 German philosopher and theorist (born 1818) Robert Craufurd 1764–1812 Scottish general and politician (born 1764) Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855 Danish philosopher and author (died 1855)

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Also born in 1882

Dora Marsden 1882–1960 English author and activist (born 1882) Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (born 1882) Getúlio Vargas 1882–1954 Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (died 1954) Henry Burr 1882– Canadian singer, radio performer, and producer (died 1941) Henry J. Kaiser 1882–1967 American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (born 1882) Inayat Khan 1882–1927 Indian mystic and educator (born 1882) James Joyce 1882–1941 Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1941) James Somerville 1882–1949 English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949) John Barrymore 1882–1942 American actor (died 1942)

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