Timeline

Feb 3^rd, 1821:

Bristol, England

Blackwell was born in Bristol,

England. She was the third

of eight children to Hannah

and Samuel Blackwell.

1832:

The family moved to New York

City, USA for a new start.

1847:

 She was admitted to Geneva College

in New York after being rejected

from over 29 other schools.

Geneva College, NY

1849:

She became the first woman

To graduate from an

American medical school.

1850:

She contracted purulent

ophthalmia from a patient

in La Maternite hospital

in Paris, France. She lost

sight in one eye.

1857:

Lecture room at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children

She opened the New York

Infirmary for Women and

Children with Emily Blackwell

and Marie Zakrzewska.

1861-1865:

She trained a unit of

Field doctors for the Union

Army in the Civil War.

1868:

She opened the first women’s

medical college in America

in New York called The Woman’s

Medical College of the New

York Infirmary.

Hastings, England

1875-1907:

She was the professor of

Gynecology at the London

School of Medicine for Women

which she helped establish.

May 31^st, 1910:

Blackwell died in her

home in Hastings, England

from an unknown cause

at age 89.