Timeline of Women's Suffrage - 18th Century

18th Century

  • 1718
    • Sweden Female taxpaying members of city guilds are allowed to vote in local elections (rescinded in 1758) and national elections (rescinded in the new constitution of 1771).
  • 1755
    • Corsica (rescinded upon annexation by France in 1769)
  • 1756–1778
    • Province of Massachusetts Bay, Lydia Taft, Uxbridge, Massachusetts town meeting
  • 1776
    • New Jersey (rescinded in 1807)

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