Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Her Movement's Timeline

• Nov. 12, 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born
• 1826: Her brother dies. To help her grieving father, she tries to become a replacement for her brother, and so she began to do everything he had done, including getting a good education
• 1830: She graduates from Jamestown Academy
• 1833: She graduates from Troy Female Seminary
• 1840: Elizabeth Cady marries Henry Brewster Stanton against her father's wishes
• 1847: The Stanton's move from Boston to Seneca Falls. Feeling a lack of an intellectual community, she resolves to change women's role in society
• 1848: She leads the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, though only 4 other women were present. From this meeting, Stanton wrote and presented their Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, which demanded equality in the social and political arena for all women, which included the right to vote
• 1851: Elizabeth Cady Stanton meets Susan B. Anthony
• 1854: Elizabeth and Susan lead the Women's State Temperance Society
• 1854: The above pair begin their women's rights campaign by trying to expand New York's Married Women's Property Law of 1848
• 1859: Elizabeth's last child, her seventh, is born
• 1860: After Elizabeth's speech to the New York legislature, the New York Married Women's Property Law of 1848 gives them more rights, becoming the Married Women's Property Law of 1860.
• 1866: Elizabeth and Susan help establish American Equal Rights Association, which was to get voting rights for African Americans and women.
• 1868-1870: Elizabeth and Susan publish The Revolution, a women's rights paper, with Elizabeth as the main writer and editor, and Susan as publisher and business manager. Though the paper was a financial failure, it was a political success, giving them a place to voice their opinions
• 1875: The pair abandon hope in suffrage from the New Departure when the Supreme Court declared that voting is not a guaranteed privilege in the case Minor v. Happersett. They chose to focus the National Women's Suffrage Association on a campaign to get women's suffrage
• 1878: Elizabeth writes and submits the NWSA's proposed amendment. Submitted to the U.S. Senate, it would be brought up at evey Congress session for the next 40 years
• Around 1880-1885: The pair work together to make the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, which is the story of their movement for women's suffrage
• 1882 and 1886: Elizabeth travels to Europe, both to visit family and to see if the idea of an international suffrage movement could be possible. She and Susan B. Anthony then organized an international conference of women for the year 1888, as a 40th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention
• 1888: The Conference is held. While it was the first and largest international conference of women, and it united the women in their cause, it did not further the women's suffrage movement, to the pair's disappointment
• 1890: NWSA and AWSA (American Women's Suffrage Association) merge to form the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA), so that the forces for women's suffrage were not divided, and voting could eventually be achieved
• 1892: Elizabeth retires NAWSA presidency. At this event, she gave her famous
• 1890-1900: NAWSA concentrates on gaining suffrage votes one state at a time
• 1895: Elizabeth publishes the first volume of the Women's Bible, which corrects demeaning biblical passages. Although it becomes an immediate best-seller, her collegues at NAWSA were not impressed. The new conservative leadership rejects her book and votes to censure her
• 1902: Two weeks before 87th her birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies of heart failure

• 1920: Fourteen years after Susan B. Anthony's death, the 19th amendment allowed women to vote, as of August 26. Over eight million American women voted for the first time. While women could vote, this advancement did little to change women's lives. In the last half of the twentieth century, Elizabeth's ideas of equality were recognized, and women's lives finally changed for the better