Timeline of women's suffrage in Wisconsin

In the 1850s, a German language women's rights newspaper was founded in Milwaukee and many suffragists spoke throughout the state.

In 1886, voters approve the school-related suffrage bill in a referendum.

Women collect petitions and continue to lobby the state legislature.

In 1911 Wisconsin legislature passes a bill for women's suffrage that will go out to the voters in 1912.

Women's suffrage efforts continue, including sponsoring a suffrage school and with the inclusion of a National Woman's Party (NWP) chapter formed in 1915.