Switzerland only gave women the vote at federal level in February 1971, after a referendum in which only men could take part. But the half-canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden still barred women from voting on cantonal matters. It took a ruling by the Federal Supreme Court, in November 1990, to force it to comply. New Zealand had been the first country to grant women the vote, back in 1893.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.