Timeline of women's suffrage
Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women and men from certain classes or races were still unable to vote. Some countries granted suffrage to both sexes at the same time. This timeline lists years when women's suffrage was enacted. Some countries are listed more than once, as the right was extended to more women according to age, land ownership, etc. In many cases, the first voting took place  in a subsequent year. Some women in the Isle of Man (geographically part of the British Isles but not part of the United Kingdom) gained the right to vote in 1881. New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893. However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully); see 1919 in New Zealand. The colony of South Australia allowed women to both vote and stand for election in 1894. In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was  granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1772. But it was not until the year 1919 that equality was achieved, where women's votes were valued the same as men's. The Australian "Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902" enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so, although some states excluded indigenous Australians. In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which later became the Republic of Finland, was the first country in  the world to give all women and all men both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year. In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), in 1991; AI is the smallest Swiss canton with 14,100 inhabitants in 1990. Women in Switzerland obtained the right to vote at federal level in 1971, and at local  cantonal level between 1959 and 1972, except for Appenzell in 1989/1990, see Women's suffrage in Switzerland. In Saudi Arabia women were first allowed to vote in December 2015 in the municipal elections. For other women's rights, see timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting). 17th century. 1689 18th century. 1718 1734 1755 1776 19th century. 1830s. 1838 1840s. 1840 1848 1850s. 1853 1856 1860s. 1861 1862 1863 1864 1869 1870s. 1870 1880s. 1881 1884 1888 1889 1890s. 1893 1894 1895 1896 1898 1899 20th century. 1900s. 1901 1902 1903 1905 1906 1908 1910s. 1910 1911 1912  1913 1914 1915 1916 1920s. 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930s. 1930 1931 1932 1934 1935 1937 1938 1939 1940s. 1940 1941 1942 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950s. 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960s. 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1970s. 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1980s. 1984 1985 1986 1989 1990s. 1991 1996 1997 1999 21st century. 2000s. 2001 2003 2005 2006 2010s. 2015 2020s. 2021 Note: in some countries both men and women have limited suffrage. For example, in  Brunei, which is a sultanate, there are no national elections, and voting exists only on local issues. In the United Arab Emirates the rulers of the seven emirates each select a proportion of voters for the Federal National Council (FNC) that together account for about 12% of Emirati citizens.