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Besant, Annie
Social reformer
| Country: | Britain |
| Date of Birth: | 1847 Oct 01 |
| Date of Death: | 1933 Sep 20 |
| Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna | who is a | associate | ||
| associate | of | Bradlaugh, Charles | ||
| Fruits of Philosophy | and is a | republisher | ||
| associate | of | Holyoake, George Jacob | ||
| adopted mother | of | Krishnamurti, Jiddu | who is a | adopted son |
| Leadbeater, Charles Webster | who is a | associate | ||
| co-editor | of | National Reformer |
| 1933 | Sep | 20 | Besant, Annie dies in India at age 86. |
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| 1917 | ––– | Besant, Annie is elected president of the Indian National Congress. |
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| 1916 | ––– | Besant, Annie establishes the Indian Home Rule League. |
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| 1911 | ––– | Besant, Annie takes Krishnamurti, Jiddu and his brother Nityananda to England to be privately educated. |
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| 1910 | ––– | Besant, Annie adopts Krishnamurti, Jiddu and his younger brother Nityananda. |
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| 1907 | ––– | Besant, Annie becomes president of the Theosophical Society . |
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| 1894 | Apr | –– | Besant, Annie meets fellow theosophist Leadbeater, Charles Webster in London, England. |
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| 1893 | ––– | Besant, Annie moves to India, location of the Theosophical Society ’s international headquarters, and is joined there by her children. |
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| 1890 | ––– | Besant, Annie makes her first trip to the United States to revive the Theosophical Society after Richard Hodgson of the American Society for Psychical Research accused Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna of fraud. |
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| 1889 | ––– | Besant, Annie converts to Theosophy. |
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| 1888 | ––– | London matchgirls’ strike of 1888. |
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| 1887 | ––– | Besant, Annie meets Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna . |
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| 1878 | ––– | The National Secular Society’s Almanack, founded and edited by Bradlaugh, Charles and Austin Holyoake in 1870. Published yearly from London. Edited by Bradlaugh and Besant, Annie from 1878-89. |
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| 1877 | ––– | Besant, Annie and Bradlaugh, Charles republish Knowlton, Charles ' “The Fruits of Philosophy ” in England; as a test case to establish the right to publish contraceptive information, they send a copy to the police, which leads to their arrest and trial for selling obscene material. They are prosecuted and acquitted in a highly publicized trial. |
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| 1877 | ––– | Besant, Annie writes The Laws of Population, a book advocating birth control. |
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| 1874 | ––– | Bradlaugh, Charles is joined by Besant, Annie, who becomes a vice president of the Secular Society. |
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| 1867 | Dec | 21 | Besant, Annie, aged 20, marries Frank Besant, a Angilican clergyman, in Hastings, England. By 23 she has two children, Digby (16 Jan 1869) and Mabel (28 Aug 1870). |
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| 1847 | Oct | 01 | Besant, Annie, the daughter of William Wood and Emily Morris, is born at 2 Fish Street, London, England as Wood, Annie. |
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