May 10, 1872, New York City: Equal Rights Party nominates Victoria C. Woodhull as their candidate for US President. 1880s 1881 : Female taxpayers allowed to vote in local elections (rescinded in 1895). (self-governing British Crown dependency, with its own parliament and legal system) (limited at first to women "freeholders" and then, a few years later, extended to include women "householders"). Universal suffrage / the franchise for all resident men and women was introduced in 1919. All men and women (with a very few exceptions such as clergy) could also stand for election from 1919. 1884 —Canadian province: limited to widows and spinsters to vote in municipal elections; later extended to other provinces. 1888 : Proposed Constitutional Amendment to extend suffrage and the right to hold office to women (limited to spinsters and widows who owned property). 1889 The municipality of Franceville in the New Hebrides (universal suffrage within its short existence. Loses self-rule within months) 1890s 1893 : first self-governing colony in the world in which all women are given the right to vote in parliamentary elections. However, women were barred from standing for election until 1919. (British protectorate) universal suffrage. (US state) (first state in the union to enfranchise women by popular vote) 1894 : universal suffrage, extending the franchise from property-owning women (granted in 1861) to all women, the first colony in Australia to do so. : Local Government Act 1894 confirms single women's right to vote in local elections and extends this franchise to some married women. By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England. 1895 : South Australian women became the first in the world to stand for election. This right had been granted the previous year in an act of the South Australian Parliament. 1896 (US state): reestablishes women's suffrage upon gaining statehood. (US state) 1898 : Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund (Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Union) founded in Copenhagen 1899 : the Australian colony of Western Australia 20th century 1900s 1901 (Australian state): were allowed to vote in Australia's first federal election (Australian state): were allowed to vote in Australia's first federal election 1902 : The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 gave women the right to vote at federal elections on the same terms as men. Women in South Australia and Western Australia had equal voting rights prior to Federation on 1 January 1901, and were guaranteed the right to