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Events on Tuesday 19 September 1893 1
1893New Zealand grants women the voteElectoral Act 1893 receives royal assentNew Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The Electoral Act 1893 followed years of campaigning led by Kate Sheppard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Women voted for the first time in the general election that November.