| 1587 | Virginia Dare is the first person born in America to English parents. |
| 1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women is published. |
| 1843 | Sojourner Truth lectured about suffrage and abolition. |
| 1848 | The first "Woman’s Rights Convention" was held in Seneca Falls, New York. |
| 1854 | Susan B. Anthony began her crusade for women’s rights. |
| 1874 | Women’s Christian Temperance Union founded to fight alcohol abuse in the United States. |
| 1879 | Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman lawyer to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1881 | American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton. |
| 1890 | Louise Blanchard Bethune becomes the first woman elected to full membership in the American Institute of Architects. |
| 1896 | The first women’s intercollegiate basketball game in the United States is held, with Stanford University defeating the University of California at Berkeley. |
| 1914 | The Amateur Athletic Union in the United States allows women to register for swimming events for the first time. |
| 1920 | With the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. women get the vote. |
| 1921 | Lila Acheson Wallace is cofounder of the Reader's Digest and Edith Wharton wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. |