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| 1836 CE | Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917), Physician and the first English woman doctor, was born in Whitechapel, London, one of 12 children of Newson and Louise Dunnell. | |
| 1841 CE | When Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was five years old, her father, a strong advocate of education, became a successful merchant and was able to send his daughters to a good boarding school. | |
| 1859 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson met Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first woman doctor. As a result, Anderson wanted to become a doctor. | |
| 1860 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson enrolled as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital in London. | |
| 1865 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson qualified as the first British woman doctor. | |
| 1866 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson opened her own hospital, the St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children. This later to become the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. | |
| 1872 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson opened the New Hospital for Women, a London infirmary entirely staffed by females, for females. | |
| 1874 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson co-founded the London School of Medicine for Women. | |
| 1902 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson retired to Aldeburgh. | |
| 1908 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson returned to her hometown of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, and made history again by being elected mayor, the first woman in Britain to hold the post. | |
| 1917 CE | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson died, in Suffolk. | |
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