{"slug": "samuel-johnson", "label": "Samuel Johnson", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183266", "qid": "Q183266", "description": "English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1709, 1784], "span_label": ["1709 CE", "1784 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "anne-queen-of-great-britain", "label": "Anne, Queen of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "city-of-london", "label": "City of London", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 18", "text": "September 18 – Samuel Johnson, English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer (d. 1784)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#July–September", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Births › July–September"}}, {"year": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain administers the Royal touch (a ritual with the intent to cure illness) for the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964331#January–March", "title": "1712", "revid": 1367964331, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1738, "year_label": "1738 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 18", "text": "September 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363165384#July–September", "title": "1738", "revid": 1363165384, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360271173#April–June", "title": "1746", "revid": 1360271173, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1747, "year_label": "1747 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372981647#Date_unknown", "title": "1747", "revid": 1372981647, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1748, "year_label": "1748 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – A fire in the City of London starts at Change Alley in Cornhill and continues for two days. Dr. Samuel Johnson later writes, \"The conflagration of a city, with all its turmoil and concominant distress, is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can afford to human eyes\". Another history notes more than a century later that \"the fire led to a great increase in the practice of fire insurance\", after the blaze causes more than £1,000,000 worth of damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361284371#January–March", "title": "1748", "revid": 1361284371, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – The first number of Samuel Johnson's The Rambler appears.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349828876#January–March", "title": "1750", "revid": 1349828876, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 15", "text": "April 15 – A Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson (he had begun the work nine years earlier, in 1746).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#April–June", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer (b. 1709)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#Deaths", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Deaths"}}]}