Frances Elizabeth Hoggan
- 1858: Attends school in Paris.
- 1861: Attends school in Dusseldorf.
- 1866: Frances returned to Britain. She started her medical career.
- 1867: Frances passes her preliminary examinations, the Council of the Apothacaries’ Society decided to exclude from its licensure those who had received private medical school education.
- 1867: October – Frances started a medical course at Zurich University.
- 1870: She is the second woman to graduate in medicine from Zurich University, and the first woman from Britain to gain a European Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree.
- 1871: She established the National Health Society with Elizabeth Blackwell to promote sanitation education.
- 1877: Despite being a practising physician for seven years, it was not until 1877 that Frances Hoggan’s name was included on the Medical Register.
- She received her licence from the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland, which was the first examining body to open its licentiate examination to women.
- 1875: Frances was elected to the British Medical Association.
- 1878: The British Medical Association refuses to admit any more women; Hoggan's membership was reversed.
- 1881–85: Frances was also involved in the campaign for medical women in India and argued for priority to be given to opening medical schools for Indian women.
- 1882: She published her recommendations in Education for Girls in Wales.
‘Hoggan never forgot her Welsh background and become heavily involved during the 1880s in debates concerning
intermediate and higher education in Wales, and particularly on the establishment of a system of secondary schools for girls in Wales.’ – ‘Dr Frances Hoggan’, The Learned Society of Wales – https://www.learnedsociety.wales/medals/hoggan-medal/frances_hoggan/