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EarlierFirst Public Ether Anesthesia1846 CE
LaterJohn Brown Raids Harpers Ferry1859 CE

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.

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