Right of foreigners to vote of other supranational groupings of countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty imposed reciprocity inside the European Union concerning voting rights in local elections; this already existed for the European elections. In several European states, the public debate on the right of foreigners to vote was therefore renewed, as some foreign residents had the right to vote (European foreign residents) while others, non-Europeans, did not. As a result of this debate, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia and Belgium extended the right to vote, in different manners, to all foreign residents (which was already the case in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands). The European Parliament,
Timeline of women in the United States Women held in 1837. 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. 1845: Lowell Female Labor Reform Association opened in 1845 as the first major labor union. 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York. 1855: :New York Women's Hospital opened in 1855 as the first hospital solely devoted to ailments affiliated with women. 1869: Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote. 1870: Louisa