This timeline includes dates related the National Historic Landmark in Rochester, NY, where Susan B. Anthony lived and worked.
Lucy Read marries Daniel Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts.
Susan B. Anthony (SBA) born in Adams, Massachusetts.
Daniel Anthony moves the family forty miles to Battenville, NY, where he manages mills for Judge John McLean.
With her sister Guelma, SBA attends Deborah Moulson Female Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.
The Depression of 1838 causes Daniel Anthony to declare bankruptcy, forcing the loss of their home in Battenville and the removal of Susan and Guelma from school.
Guelma marries Aaron McLean, grandson of Judge McLean.
SBA begins her teaching career in New Rochelle, NY.
The Anthony family moves to a farm near Rochester, NY.
Hannah marries Eugene Mosher.
SBA becomes the headmistress of the female department at Canajoharie Academy, earning a yearly salary of $110.
First Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, NY.
SBA joins the Daughters of Temperance.
SBA leaves teaching and returns to the Rochester farm.
SBA meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton (ECS), with whom she will work closely on the women's movement for the next 50 years.
SBA attends a state convention of the Sons of Temperance, where the male members prevent her from speaking.
SBA wears the Bloomer Costume.
SBA attends her first Women's Rights Convention, in Syracuse, NY.
SBA leads a petition campaign in NYS to secure the rights of married women to own property and have equal guardianship of their children.
SBA becomes an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York State.
At a New York State Teachers' Convention in Binghamton, SBA calls for education for women and Blacks.
The present-day Susan B. Anthony House is constructed by Husted Wanzer, with original address of 7 Madison Street.
SBA helps a married woman and her child escape an abusive husband.
SBA conducts an anti-slavery campaign from Buffalo to Albany with the motto, "No Compromise with Slaveholders."
Daniel Anthony dies on November 25, 1862.
SBA works with ECS to found the Woman’s National Loyal League and to publish "An Appeal to the Women of the Republic"
Lucy Anthony purchases the house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester.
The American Equal Rights Association is organized to work for "Universal Suffrage."
SBA leads the campaign to change the New York State Constitution to give women the vote.
SBA canvasses Kansas in support of a referendum that would enfranchise all black males and all women.
SBA attends the National Labor Union Convention as delegate of the Working Women's Association.
With ECS, SBA begins publication in New York City of the newspaper "The Revolution."
With ECS, SBA founds the National Woman Suffrage Association.
"The Revolution" newspaper fails; SBA goes on a lecture tour to pay off debts.
Having convinced the election commissioners that they are entitled to vote based on U.S. Constitution, fifteen women in Rochester, NY register and vote in the federal election of 1872.
A U.S. Marshall knocks on the door the Anthony house with a warrant for the arrest of Susan B. Her crime: voting!
SBA's trial is held in the Canandaigua, NY courthouse; she is found guilty and fined $100. She refuses to pay.
Guelma Anthony McClean dies.
SBA pays off the last of the $10,000 of debt caused by "The Revolution" newspaper.
SBA presents the Declaration of the Rights of Woman at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Hannah Anthony Mosher dies.
Lucy Read Anthony dies.
With ECS and Matilda Joslyn Gage, SBA publishes Vol. 1 of HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE; Vol. 2 is published in 1882, and Vol. 3 in 1886.
SBA leads the International Council of Women meeting in Washington DC.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed from the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
In 1891, SBA decides to make 17 Madison St. a home of her own.
SBA is elected president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
THE LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY is published.
SBA pledges the value of her life insurance policy to meet the University of Rochester's financial demands for the admission of women.
SBA delivers the keynote address to the New York State Nurses Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies shortly before her 87th birthday, ending the partnership that had lasted for over half a century and accomplished so much.
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