ON THIS DAY in 1895, the Constitution (Female Suffrage) Act 1895 (SA) granted South Australian women (except for aboriginal women) the right to vote. SA was only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so following New Zealand (1893).
http://foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-44.html
ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1893, New Zealand women were the first in the world to be granted the right to vote with the enactment of the Electoral Act 1893 (57 VICT 1893 No 18).
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ON 17 MARCH 1893 the Supreme Court of NSW delivered Ex parte Ogden [1893] NSWLawRp 22; (1893) 14 LR (NSW) 86.
Married women and aliens were considered to be under a disability that prevented them from voting in municipal elections.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWLawRp/1893/22.pdf
Sydney, Australia
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ON 6 MARCH 1857, the US Supreme Court delivered Dred Scott v Sandford 60 US 393 (1857).
https://supreme.justia.com/us/60/393/case.html
The US Supreme Court ruled that slaves African ancestry were not citizens under the US Constitution.
The decision caused outrage and was a significant event leading up to the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.
Sydney, Australia
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8 JUNE 1847, the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted the Factory Act 1847, also known as the Ten Hour Bill.
Women and children could only work 63 hours per week as of 1 July 1847 and 58 hours per week, or 10 hours per week, as of 1 May 1848.
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ON 28 AUGUST 1833, the UK Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/3-4/73/contents
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ON THIS DAY in 1807 the UK Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807. Slave trade was abolished in the British Empire.
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ON 22 JUNE 1772, the English King’s Bench delivered Somerset v Stuart (1772) Lofft 1; (1772) 98 ER 499.
Even though African slavery was tolerated at the time in the colonies, the court ruled that a slave could not be taken by force and sold abroad as property as no such right existed under the law of England,
ON THIS DAY in 1689, the Bill of Rights was passed into law by the Parliament of England.
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