from the replies to a tweet by @xnulz
- Louise Michel (tweet)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (tweet)
- Lozen (tweet)
- Theodora (tweet)
- Boudicca (tweet 2 3 4 5 6)
- Mae Jemison (tweet)
- Joan of Arc (tweet tweet)
- Mary Edwards Walker (tweet)
- Emma Goldman (tweet 2)
- Marie Curie (tweet 2)
- Ola (Borelli) Imhoff (tweet)
- Winnie Mandela (tweet)
- Valerie Plame (tweet)
- Julie D‘Aubigny (tweet)
- Elizabeth Báthory (tweet)
- Rosa Parks (tweet 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 …)
- Fannie Lou Hamer (tweet)
- Sojourner Truth (tweet 2)
- Ma Barker (tweet)
- Harriet Tubman (tweet)
- Malala Yousafzai (tweet 2 3 4 5)
- Queen Esther/Catherine Mountour (unspecified tweet) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Hedy Lamarr (tweet 2)
- Lyudmila Mykhailovna Pavličenko (tweet 2 3 4)
- Ida B. Wells (tweet)
- Delilah (tweet)
- Yevdokia Bershanskaya (Night Witches) (tweet 2)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (tweet 2)
- Mekatilili Wa Menza (tweet 2) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Artemisia Gentileschi (tweet)
- Grace Hopper (tweet)
- Kate Chopin (tweet)
- Sylvia Earle (tweet https://twitter.com/wes_aka/status/937371110856904704)
- Amelia Earhart (tweet)
- Franciszka Mann (tweet)
- Virginia Woolf (tweet)
- Women in war zones (tweet) note: yet missing from timeline
- Beryl Markham (tweet)
- unnamed Inuit woman
- Brites de Almeida, the Padeira of Aljubarrota (the baker-woman of Aljubarrota) (tweet)
- Gao Yaojie (tweet)
- Susan B. Anthony (tweet)
- Phoolan Devi (tweet)
- Williamina Fleming (tweet)
- Bessie Coleman (tweet)
- Kaúxuma Núpika (tweet) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Matilde Hidalgo de Procel (tweet)
- Irena Sendler (tweet)
- Alicia Kozakiewicz (tweet)
- Grace Brett note: missing dates required for timeline
- Mrs. Irvine (article)
- Pocahontas (tweet)
- Sei Shōnagon (tweet)
- Helen Keller (tweet)
- Elizabeth Blackwell (tweet)
- Jane Goodall (tweet)
- Emma Tenayuca (tweet)
- Angela Davis (tweet)
- Rosa Luxemburg (tweet)
- Frida Khalo (tweet)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (tweet)
- Abigail Adams (tweet)
- Coretta Scott King (tweet)
- Katherine Switzer (tweet)
- Golda Meir (tweet)
- Dorothea Erxleben (tweet)
- Wu Zetian/Empress Wu (tweet)
- Laskarina Bouboulina (tweet)
- Mary Read (tweet)
- Anne Bonny (tweet)
- Mai Bhago (tweet) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Harriet Tubman (tweet)
- Diamanda Galás (tweet)
- Anne Devlin (tweet) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Constance “Countess” Markievicz (tweet)
- Viola Desmond (tweet)
- Bridget “Biddy“ Mason (tweet)
- Elizabeth “Lee” Miller (tweet)
- Sophie Scholl (tweet)
- Sadie Farrell/Sadie the Goat (tweet) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Noor Inayat Khan (tweet)
- Simone Segouin (tweet)
- Jeanette Rankin (tweet)
- Nina Simone (tweet)
- Molly Pitcher (tweet)
- Maya Angelou (tweet)
- George Sand (tweet)
- Ching Shih (tweet)
- Safiyyah Khan (tweet)
- Sally Ride (tweet) (List of female astronauts)
- Mariya Oktyabrskaya (tweet)
- Penelope Stout (tweet)
- Molly Craig
- Mary Harris Jones (tweet)
- Mildred Dresselhaus (tweet)
- Émilie du Châtelet (tweet)
- Ada Lovelace (tweet)
- Cleopatra (tweet)
- Margaret Hamilton (tweet)
- Tomoe Gozen (tweet)
- Nancy Wake (tweet)
- May Edward Chinn (tweet)
- Grace O'Malley (tweet)
- Alice Ball (tweet)
- Anna Maria van Schurman (tweet)
- Valentina Tereshkova (tweet)
- Emma Tenayuca (tweet)
- Hypatia (tweet)
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuto (tweet)
- Sophie Scholl (tweet)
- Chau Smith
- Sacagawea (tweet)
- Isabelle Eberhardt (tweet)
- Molly Pitcher (tweet)
- Ruby Bridges (tweet)
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (tweet)
- Annie Oakley (tweet)
- Madam C. J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove) (tweet)
- Artemisia I of Caria (tweet)
- Artemisia II of Caria (tweet)
- Maryam Mirzakhani (tweet)
- Josefa Llanes Escoda (tweet)
- Nanny of the Maroons (Grandee Nanny of the Ashanti tribe) (tweet)
- Sunitha Krishnan (tweet)
- Emma Lilian Todd (tweet)
- Lee Hyeon-seo (tweet; TED Talk) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Evelyn Cheesman (tweet)
- Hannah Snell (tweet)
- Stella Young (tweet; TED Talk)
- Nellie Bly (tweet)
- Tomyris (tweet) note: missing dates required for timeline
- Nancy Wake (tweet; obituary)
- Robin Miller (tweet)
- Gisella Perl (tweet)
- Sacagawea (tweet)
- Ada Blackjack (tweet)
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (tweet)
- Lilian Bland (tweet)
- Laxmi Agarwal (tweet)
- Rani of Jhansi (tweet)
- Kittur Chennamma (tweet)
- Katherine Johnson (tweet)
“Here's a whole book of them…”
- The selection is necessarily biased; I did not include everything and had no clear selection criteria.
- “missing dates“ above refers to the data available at Wikidata, but may actually be documented in Wikipedia; you may help improve the data by adding the date or dates to the Wikidata entries
- I stopped keeping track of multiple mentions…
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