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Historical Timeline including National and Local Events
- 1848 First Women's Right Convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY
- 1848 New York Central College is Founded in McGrawville, NY
- 1850 First National Women's Right Convention held in Worcester, MA
- 1866 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association
- 1868 Stanton, Anthony, and Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution.
- 1868 Cortland Normal School is founded
- 1869 New York State Women's Suffrage Association
- 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
- 1869 Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe and other more conservative activists form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
- 1874 Women's Christian Temperance Union is founded
- 1879 Susan B. Anthony visits Cortland, NY
- 1885 Lille Deveraux visits Cortland, NY
- 1889 Abraham Lincoln DeMond was the first African-American graduate from the Cortland Normal School
- 1890 Cortland Wheel Club was formed
- 1890 Wyoming is admitted to the Union with a state constitution granting woman suffrage
- 1893 Colorado recognizes Women's Suffrage
- 1894 Women's Bible is published by Susan B. Anthony
- 1894 Susan B. Anthony and Harriet May Mills visit Cortland, NY
- 1896 Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Frances E.W. Harper among others found the the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
- 1896 Utah and Idaho recognize Women's Suffrage
- 1909 Political Equity Club is founded
- 1910 Parade for Women's Rights occurs in NYC
- 1910-1914 Women's Suffrage is recognized in the following states; Washington State, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Nevada, and Montana.
- 1915 New York State Suffrage Party is founded
- 1916 Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- 1917 New York passes referendum on Women's Suffrage
- 1918 Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma recognize Women's Suffrage
- 1919 US Senate passes the 19th Amendment of the Constitution
- 1920 The 19th Amendment is ratified
- 1920 National League of Women Voters is founded
- 1937 Helen Timko becomes the first women Student Council President at Cortland
- 1942 Susan West is the first elected women to the Cortland County Board of Supervisors
- 1950's Margaret Dexter is elected as the first women to serve as Cortland's City Council Alderman
- 1953 The League of Women Voters Cortland Chapter is founded
