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1. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (69 B.C.) – She ascended the throne at the age of seventeen.

2. Joan of Arc, Heroine of France (1429) – She was granted an audience with Charles the Dauphin of France, and eventually became the captain at the battle of Orlea Orleans.

3. Queen Isabella of Spain (1942) – She financed Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World.

4. Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558 – 1603)  – She established England as a dominant sea power and defeated the Spanish Armada.

5. Anne Hutchinson, a religious dissident (1638) – She led schismatic group Massachusetts Bay Colony into wilderness established Rhode Island.

6. Catherine the Great of Russia (1775 – 1781) – She adopted an “Armed Neutrality” policy which undermined the British blockade of the colonies during the American Revolution.

7. Sacajewa (1803 - 1806) – She led the Lewis and Clark expedition.

8. Mary Lyons, American Educator (1837) – She founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the first American College exclusively for women.

9. Dorothea Diy (1843) – She reported to Massachusetts Legislature the treatment of the criminally insane resulting in a significant reform of American mental institution.

10. Harriet Tubman (1849) – She escaped from slavery and became one of the most successful “conductors” of the Underground Railroad. She helped free more than 300 slaves.

11. Florence Nightingale (1854) – She was the founder of modern

nursing and organized a unit of women nurses to serve in the Crimean War.

12. Susan B. Anthony (1869) – She was elected President of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association.

13. Carry Nation (1900) – She gained fame destroying saloons as Head of the American Temperance Movement.

14. Mary Pickford (1919) – She became the first top-level female executive of a major film studio.

15. Margareth Chase Smith (1940) – She was the first woman elected to Congress in the United States.

16. Betty Friedan (1966) – She founded the National Organization of Women (NOW).

17. Golda Mier (1969) – She was elected Prime Minister of Israel.

18. Mother Theresa (1979) – She received the Nobel Prize for her three decades of work leading the Congregation of the Missions of Charity in Calcutta, India.

19. Margaret Thatcher (1979) – She became United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister, and known as the "Iron Lady".

20. Jean Kirkpatrick (1981) – She was appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

21. Sandra Day O’Connor (1981) – She was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

22. Corazon C. Aquino (1986) – She is the first woman President of the Republic of the Philippines.

23. Benazir Bhutto (1988) – She was elected first Female Prime Minister of Pakistan.

24. Hillary Clinton (1992) – She assumed active policy role in federal government as First Lady.

25. Madeleine Albright (1996) – She was appointed U.S. Secretary of State.

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