What was the first year women were able to vote?

Question

Women's suffrage.

Answer 1

The first country in the world to grant women in general (rather than a specific woman as referred to previously) was New Zealand in 1893.  

Answer 2

We can vote?

We can vote! We can vote! No one told me.

Answer 3

i think in 1756

Answer 4

In the year 1920!

Answer 5

But we do know the name of the first woman to vote under the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.*

On August 31, 1920, five days after the 19th amendment was signed into law, Hannibal, Missouri, held a special election to fill the seat of an alderman who had resigned.

At 7 a.m., despite pouring rain, Mrs. Marie Ruoff Byrum, wife of Morris Byrum and daughter-in-law of Democratic committeeman Lacy Byrum, cast her ballot in the first ward. She thus became the first woman to vote in the state of Missouri and the first woman to vote in the United States under the 19th, or Suffrage, Amendment.

At 7:01 a.m. in the second ward of Hannibal, Mrs. Walker Harrison cast the second known vote by a woman under the 19th amendment.

Sources include:

Ron Brown, WGEM News, based on a news story in the Hannibal Courier-Post, 8/31/20, and a reference in the Missouri Historical Review Volume 29, 1934-35, page 299.

* As with many facts of women's history, it's possible that documentation will later be found about another woman who voted somewhat earlier, but for now, this documentation seems quite solid.

Answer 6

In 1756, Lydia Chapin Taft, also known as Lydia Taft, became the first legal woman voter in America.