| 1865 |
Dr. Mary Walker received the Congressional Medal Of Honor for her work as a physician during the Civil War. [Rescinded in 1917, reinstated in 1977.] |
| 1866 |
Dr. Ann Preston became Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was a member of the first graduating class. |
| 1870 |
Dr. Cassandra Pickett Durham earned her medical degree in Georgia, and became the first woman doctor in the state. |
| 1872 |
North Carolina Medical Society granted a woman membership. It was one of the first four state societies to do so. |
| 1874 |
Dr. Anna Angell was the first woman to be a resident at New York City Hospital, Mt. Sinai, after graduating from the New York Infirmary. |
| 1893 |
Johns Hopkins University Medical School opened. A $500,000 donation raised by a group of women, ensured that Hopkins Medical School would accept women students on the same terms as the men. |
| 1893 |
Woman's Medical Journal founded, devoted to raising professional consciousness. |
| 1902 |
Dr. Mary Ryerson Sutin, was the first woman city and county health official in Madera, CA and also the first in the United States. |
| 1915 |
American Medical Association accepts its first woman member. |
| 1915 |
The American Medical Women's Association founded. |
| 2004 |
155th anniversary of women in medicine. |
