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| January 19, 1870 | Woodhull, Claflin & Co., Brokers, open for business |
| April 2, 1870 | Woodhull declares herself a candidate for the upcoming presidential election in the New York Herald |
| May 14, 1870 | First issue of Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly |
| January 11, 1871 | Woodhull presents her “new departure” Memorial to the House Judiciary Committee (Majority Report rejects, January 15, 1871) |
| May 11, 1871 | Woodhull speaks before the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) Meeting in New York |
| May 15, 1871 | Roxanna Claflin brings charges against Colonel Blood for alienating the affections of her daughters Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin, and the family appears in Essex Police Court |
| July 1871 | Section Twelve of International Workingmen’s Association (IWA) forms with Woodhull as leader |
| August 11, 1871 | Claflin nominated for Congress in the Eighth Congressional district in New York |
| September 1871 | Theodore Tilton publishes Biography of Victoria C. Woodhull in the Golden Age |
| September 12, 1871 | Woodhull elected president of the American Association of Spiritualists (AAS) |
| November 7, 1871 | Woodhull and Claflin attempt to vote |
| November 20, 1871 | Woodhull delivers her free love lecture, “The Principles of Social Freedom,” at New York’s Steinway Hall |
| December 17, 1871 | French and Anglo-American sections of the IWA parade in honor of the martyred French communards |
| December 30, 1871 | Marx’s Communist Manifesto published in English for the first time in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly |
| February 17, 1872 | Thomas Nast publishes the Mrs. Satan cartoon in Harper’s Weekly |
| February 21, 1872 | Woodhull delivers “Impending Revolution” speech before IWA sections and others at New York’s Academy of Music |
| March 12, 1872 | Karl Marx and IWA General Council temporarily suspend Section Twelve, pending confirmation at the International Congress, the Hague, September 1872 |
| May 11, 1872 | Equal Rights Party convention nominates Woodhull and Frederick Douglass for president and vice president |
| May 28, 1872 | IWA General Council formally announces break-up of Spring Street Council |
| June 3, 1872 | Frederick Douglass’s home in Rochester destroyed by fire |
| June 13, 1872 | Claflin elected colonel of African-American militia, the Eighty-Fifth Regiment of New York |
| June 22, 1872 | Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly temporarily suspends publication until November 2, 1872 issue |
| July–August 1872 | Woodhull and Claflin evicted and homeless |
| September 2–9, 1872 | The Hague Congress of the IWA formally suspends Section Twelve |
| September 10, 1872 | Woodhull verbally exposes Beecher before AAS delegates in Boston, who reelect her for second term as president |
| November 2, 1872 | Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly publishes Beecher and Challis exposures |
| November 3, 1872 | Woodhull and Claflin arrested by federal marshals under 1872 postal law |
| March 3, 1873 | Congress approves new federal obscenity legislation, known as the “Comstock Law” |
| June 27, 1873 | Woodhull and Claflin found not guilty in federal obscenity trial under 1872 code |
| September 16, 1873 | AAS (now Universal Association of Spiritualists, UAS) in Chicago, reelects Woodhull for third term as president |
| October 1873–February 1874 | Woodhull lectures in the west |
| March 13, 1874 | Woodhull and Claflin found not guilty in Challis libel suit |
| May–June 1874 | Woodhull lectures in far west and California |
| August 22, 1874 | Plymouth Church Committee investigation exonerates Beecher of all charges of impropriety |
| August 24, 1874 | Theodore Tilton files charges against Beecher for alienation of his wife’s affections |
| September 1874 | UAS reelects Woodhull for fourth term as president |
| September 1874–June 1875 | Woodhull lectures in the west, popularizing the Beecher-Tilton scandal |
| January 11, 1875 | Tilton v. Beecher civil trial begins |
| June 2, 1875 | Tilton v. Beecher trial ends in a hung jury |
| September 1875 | UAS reelects Woodhull for fifth term as president |
| September 1875–June 1876 | Woodhull lectures in west, south, and northeast |
| June 10, 1876 | Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly ceases publication |
| September 1876 | Woodhull resigns from UAS |
| October 8, 1876 | Woodhull divorces second husband Colonel James Blood |
| November 1876–February 1877 | Tilden/Hayes election. Hayes agrees to “southern compromise”; federal troops withdraw from south |
| August 1877 | Woodhull and Claflin depart for England |
