First Country In The World To Grant Suffrage To Women, Celebrates Its 175th Anniversary Adamstown/Pitcairn Islands | 28.11.2013 | International When you’re small, as is the tiny, isolated Pacific isle called Pitcairn, its sweet to be “first.” That’s the distinction the women Pitcairn will celebrate on Friday, November 29, 2013, - the distinction of being the first “country” in the world to grant suffrage to women. In their own way, the men of this little South Pacific isle will be celebrating it too. It was in 1838, while calling at Pitcairn Island, that Captain Russell Elliott of the British warship H.M.S. Fly, answered pleas of the
