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| 1854 |
| | Florence Nightingale, responding to reports of horrors in the Crimea, sets sail with a party of twenty-eight nurses | |
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| 1860 |
| | Florence Nightingale opens a training school for nurses in St Thomas's Hospital, establishing nursing as a profession | |
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| 1862 November |
| | Under the title Romola, George Eliot's story of Savonarola in Florence begins publication (completed in August 1863) | |
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| 1898 |
| | The National Consumers' League, headed by Florence Kelley, fights for improved conditions in the US factories making consumer goods | |
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| 1913 |
| | Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence | |
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| 1928 |
| | D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence | |
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| 1944 August |
| | The Allied advance in Italy comes to a halt at the Gothic Line of German defences, north of Florence | |
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