jan 1, 1848 - First Women's Rights Convention - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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On July 19th and 20th 1848, 300 men and women assembled in Seneca Falls, New York, for the nation's first women's rights convention, at which the Declaration of Sentiments, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and containing twelve resolutions demanding legal and cultural reform, was discussed and ultimately signed by 68 women and 32 men. Frederick Douglass, whose attendance and support helped pass the resolutions put forward, declared in the North Star (an anti-slavery newspaper published by Douglass) that the document was the "grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women."

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