Oh easy. The medieval world has an understandable reputation for brutality. In 2002, during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague, the chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, accused the Butcher of the Balkans of 'medieval savagery'. A common perception of the Middle Ages is that society was brutalized by constant violence and even partly desensitized against death by the persistent presence of the Four
Voters in the United States territory of Wyoming were the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869. This happened on December 10th and is one of the first laws of its kind implemented in the world, with only the exception of a few countries.
