Timeline of women's suffrage liberty between 1718 and 1772. The Australian Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so. In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the second country in the world to implement both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female
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