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- Stelarc performance piece "City Suspension", with a body suspended over the city of Copenhagen (en)
- Ohio State University female rugby players pose bare-chested for a photo at the Lincoln Memorial and are punished harshly by the University. (en)
- The New Gymnosophy, the philosophy of nudity as applied in modern life, first edition published in the US by Dr. Maurice Parmelee, Professor of Sociology, City College of New York, who would later become the first president of the American Gymnosophical Association (en)
- Freedomites Doukhobors engage in nude protests. In May 1903 they protest nude and are persecuted. In 1932 nearly 900 nude protesters are sentenced by the government of British Columbia to three years imprisonment on Piers Island (en)
- First year of the clothing-optional Burning Man festival at Baker Beach. Larry Harvey and Jerry James construct a wooden figure and burn it in celebration of the summer solstice. Participants: 20 (en)
- The American League for Physical Culture is founded (en)
- The Burning Man festival moves to Black Rock Desert with 4,000 participants. The camp becomes the most populous settlement in Pershing County and is known as Black Rock City (en)
- Naked anti-nuclear weapons protesters march down Van Ness Avenue (en)
- Annual "April Fool's Naked Run" draws approximately 30 participants (en)
- Beachfront USA is established as a beach nudism organizing and advocacy forum (en)
- Paul Zimmerman establishes the first naturist resort near Hamburg (en)
- Political protest group FEMEN is started by Anna Hutsol (en)
- Henning von Berg photographs a group of naked women in front of major tourist locations, including the Commonwealth Bank, Hyde Park, Queen Victoria's statue, the National Treasure Bank, a leading TV broadcast studio, the iconic Opera House, and the Harbour Bridge (en)
- Fourteen women go bare-chested outside the Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls to protest the inequality of dress between genders (en)
- United States Supreme Court rules in Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield that naturist magazines are acceptable under Comstock laws, which define and regulate social morals. (en)
- Earliest known naturist club founded by Charles Edward Gordon Crawford, District and Sessions Judge for the Bombay Civil Service (en)
- Gerald Gardner, founder of Wicca, buys Fiveacres Country Club, and establishes the Bricket Wood coven in its grounds. This marks the beginning of "Skyclad" ritual nudity within Wicca. (en)
- Thousands enjoy the Nambassa festivals while wearing little or no clothing (en)
- About 20 topfree women protest (en)
- X-plicit Players go nude or topfree from Smokey Joe's Cafe on Shattuck Avenue to Cafe Milano on Telegraph Avenue to support New York topfree victory (en)
- First annual Nude & Breast Freedom Parade (en)
- First naturist clubs are established (en)
- Sky Farm, the first permanent nudist community in the United States, is established (en)
- The diary of Rev. Robert Francis Kilvert notes the transition to the mandatory use of swimming-costumes after bathing at Seaton. He was brought "a pair of very short red and white striped drawers to cover my nakedness", and being so "unaccustomed to such things and customs" that he had "set at nought the conventionalities of the place" (en)
- Evangeline Godron swims bare-chested in the Wascana pool (en)
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono release experimental album Two Virgins with a nude cover. (en)
- Male bare-chestedness is legalized (en)
- Nude swimming is common on beaches (en)
- Streaking becomes popular on college campuses (en)
- The English Gymnosophist Society founded (en)
- The Naturist Society is formed (en)
- The World Naked Bike Ride begins. (en)
- The first National Nude Beach Day is designated. (en)
- The first naked crossing of the European Alps. (en)
- Michigan Supreme Court rules that people have a right to practice nudism within private resorts (en)
- First protest by The Freedom to be Yourself at the Royal Courts of Justice (en)
- Indecent Publications Tribunal finds that publishing nude photos is not unlawful (en)
- Introduction of the swimming-costume, because regular clothing was cumbersome and endangered the swimmer. (en)
- International Naturist Federation formed at the CHM Montalivet (en)
- Sociologist Heinrich Pudor publishes The Cult of the Nude and nude public bathing is seen as the start of the nudist movement (en)
- First legal nude beach is created when the section of Maslin Beach south of Adelaide is proclaimed legal for both clothed and naked bathing (en)
- Paul Bindrim conducts the first nude psychotherapy group (en)
- Though full-body swimming attire is mandatory, men begin to appear bare-chested on crowded public beaches despite the threat of arrest (en)
- High Court of New Zealand quashes an "offensive behaviour" conviction for sunbathing nude on a public beach in the presence of children on the grounds that, as nudity is "not uncommon" on the beach in question, a reasonable person would not be moved to "anger, disgust, or outrage" by the behaviour. (en)
- Societe Internationale de Gymnosophie founded by Kenne D'Mongeot (en)
- Vincent Bethell starts writing letters to the Home Office and his Member of Parliament questioning the law regarding public nakedness (en)
- Héliopolis, Europe's first town dedicated to naturism, founded by Doctors Gaston and André Durville (en)
- First nude rugby match, which becomes a tradition held each year until 2014, after which it becomes sporadic. (en)
- Nude & Natural magazine is established by The Naturist Society founder Lee Baxandall . (en)
- Arkansas passes law to make it illegal to "advocate, demonstrate, or promote nudism." The law applies to both public spaces and private property (en)
- Stelarc performance piece, "Seaside Suspension: Event for Wind & Waves", shows a body suspended over water at Jōgashima, Miura (en)
- Photographer Henning von Berg organizes the world's first and only male nude photo shoot inside a parliament building as a social-political statement. The group photo series Naked Berlin - The Liberal Capital features six naked men inside the historical Reichstag building and at nine other famous landmarks in Berlin (en)
- Fiveacres Country Club, the oldest naturist club still on its original site, founded (en)
- Photographer "Harvey" photographs nudes in public urban environments. (en)
- National Nude Day is created when Marc Ellis on the New Zealand TV show SportsCafe challenges viewers to streak in front of then Prime Minister Helen Clark. It becomes a semi-regular annual event on the show. Later rebranded "World Nude Day" or "International Nude Day", the event outlives the end of SportsCafe in 2005 by at least four years. (en)
- San Francisco bans and criminalizes public nudity without a police-issued parade permit; however, female toplessness is still allowed throughout the city. (en)
- Peter Cleall addresses the Brighton Solidarity Network while naked. (en)
- The University of Michigan's Naked Mile is first organized—a run by streakers marking the last day of classes in winter. It is started by a handful of students and eventually grows to a thousand participants annually. The event is cancelled in 2003 after concerted action by police and the University of Michigan administration. (en)
- Nazi edict bans many nudist organizations, but nudists reorganize as sports groups and are accepted (en)
- Gwen Jacob goes topless in Guelph, Ontario, Canada on a hot day. She was eventually acquitted of public indecency in 1996 by the Ontario Court of Appeal on the basis that the act of being topless is not in itself a sexual act or indecent. (en)
- American Gymnosophical Association is formed by Dr. Maurice Parmelee as an outgrowth of the American League for Physical Culture at the Rock Lodge Club (en)
- Four go topfree for protest at the Canadian Parliament (en)
- A nude beach picnic and photo shoot is organized during Memorial Day weekend in front of the World Trade Center at "a temporarily barren, enormous construction sandfill directly on the Hudson River near Wall Street" (en)
- The Down With Shame movement holds nude marches and "Evenings of the Denuded Body" intended to dispel earlier bourgeois morality (en)
- Writer and performance artist David Robert Lewis disrobes in front of the South African National Gallery in a naked art ritual and public nudity event entitled Decontamination. (en)
- European missionaries try to stop nude surfing and force indigenous women to cover themselves by wearing the Mother Hubbard dress. The imposed dress code, however, is often ignored; a British engraving shows a set of waves ridden by nearly a dozen Hawaiian surfers, male and female, all of them naked (en)
- Andrew Martinez attends a class - Russian history - without clothes (en)
- Painted naked cyclists at the Fremont Summer Solstice Parade (en)
- Robert Opel appears naked in Los Angeles City Council Chamber. (en)
- Stelarc performance piece, "Street Suspension", with a body suspended over the Mo David gallery (en)
- Three hundred individuals participate in a massive naked "wade-in" at a Danish beach. As a result, the vast majority of beaches become clothing optional (en)
- Photographer Spencer Tunick starts documenting the live nude figure in public. (en)
- The Down to Earth Co-operative Society holds the first ConFest with the aim of "transforming society" (en)
- Fashion designer Rudi Gernreich produces the topless swimsuit or Monokini (en)
- New Zealand Sunbathing Association established, later renamed the New Zealand Naturist Federation. (en)
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- dbr:Berkeley,_California
- dbr:Denmark
- dbr:Vermont
- dbr:Cotter_River
- dbr:Liberty_Corner,_New_Jersey
- dbr:Stockholm,_New_Jersey
- dbr:Australian_Capital_Territory
- dbr:Ottawa
- dbr:Polynesia
- dbr:Nazi_Germany
- dbr:Seattle
- dbr:Brattleboro
- United Kingdom (en)
- Portland, Oregon. (en)
- United States. (en)
- United Kingdom. (en)
- Australia. (en)
- Canada. (en)
- Japan. (en)
- Berkeley, California. (en)
- Los Angeles, California. (en)
- New York City. (en)
- New Zealand. (en)
- San Francisco. (en)
- London. (en)
- Dunedin, New Zealand. (en)
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. (en)
- France. (en)
- Long Island, New York. (en)
- Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England. (en)
- California, United States. (en)
- Denmark. (en)
- Germany. (en)
- Hertfordshire, England. (en)
- Nevada, United States. (en)
- New York state, United States. (en)
- San Francisco, California. (en)
- Sydney, Australia. (en)
- Thana, India. (en)
- Ukraine. (en)
- University of California, Berkeley. (en)
- Victorian England. (en)
- former Soviet Union. (en)
- Île du Levant, France. (en)
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