women, allowing them to own and control their own property, whether acquired before or after marriage, and sue and be sued in their own name. 1886: The Contagious Disease Acts were repealed. 1889: Women's Franchise League established. 1893: The Married Women's Property Act 1893 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights granted to married women. It completed the Married Women's Property Act 1882 by granting married women the same property rights equal to unmarried women. 1894: Local Government Act; women who owned property could vote in local elections, become Poor Law Guardians, serve on School Boards 1894: The publication of C.C. Stopes's British Freewomen, staple reading for the suffrage movement for decades. 1897: National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies NUWSS formed (led by Millicent Fawcett). 1900–WW1 1903: Women's Social and Political Union WSPU was formed (under tight control of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters) 1904: WPSU Militancy begins. 1905, 1908, 1913: Three phases of WSPU militancy (Civil Disobedience; Destruction of Public Property; Arson/Bombings). 1906: The Daily Mail first coined the term "suffragettes" as a form of ridicule, but the term was quickly embraced in Britain by women who used militant tactics in the cause of women's suffrage. February 1907: NUWSS "Mud March" – largest open air demonstration ever held (at that point) – over 3000 women took part. In this year, women were admitted to the register to vote in and stand for election to principal local authorities. 1907: The Matrimonial Causes Act 1907 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated previous legislation relating to maintenance payments to separated and divorced women. It was designed in response to one cause of poverty amongst mothers and their children, marriage break-up. Support for the "endowment of motherhood" was also increased. 1907: The Artists' Suffrage League founded. 1907: The Women's Freedom League founded. 1909: The Women's Tax Resistance League founded. September 1909: Force feeding introduced to WSPU hunger strikers in English prisons February 1910: Cross-Party Conciliation Committee (54 MPs). Conciliation Bill (that would enfranchise women) passed its 2nd reading by a majority of 109 but Prime Minister Asquith refused to give it more parliamentary time November 1910: Asquith changes Bill to enfranchise more men instead of women October 1912: George Lansbury, Labour MP, resigned his seat in support of women's suffrage February 1913: David Lloyd George's