page_title: Timeline of nursing history
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of nursing history / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: Florence Nightingale. This painting was made based on the photography Image:Florence Nightingale 1920 reproduction.jpg
context_page_description: 1–500 AD – Nursing care palliative needs of persons and families. Religious organizations were the care providers.
  55 CE – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess.
  300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing.
  c. 390 CE – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola.
  c. 620 CE – Rufaidah bint Sa'ad became the first Muslim nurse.
caption: Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
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