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Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

23 dated entries naming Samuel Johnson, drawn from 16 separate years between 1709 CE and 1816 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1709September 18 – Samuel Johnson, English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer (died 1784)source
  • 170918 September – Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (died 1784)source
  • 1712March 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.source
  • 171230 March – Queen Anne 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.source
  • 17372 March – Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London.source
  • 1738September 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).source
  • 173818 September – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).source
  • 1746June 18 – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.source
  • 174618 June – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.source
  • 1747Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language in London.source
  • 1748March 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.source
  • 1750March 20 – The first number of Samuel Johnson's The Rambler appears.source
  • 175020 March – Samuel Johnson begins publication of the periodical The Rambler.source
  • 1755April 15 – A Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson (he had begun the work nine years earlier, in 1746).source
  • 175815 April – Samuel Johnson begins publishing the series of essays The Idler (1758–1760) in the Universal Chronicle.source
  • 176316 May – James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London.source
  • 17736 August – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland where on 14 August he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides. On 12 September they are entertained at Kingsburgh, Skye, by Allan and Flora MacDonald.source
  • 1774July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.source
  • 1775Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is published.source
  • 177518 September - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband Henry on a visit to France.source
  • 1784December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer (born 1709)source
  • 1784December 13 – Dr. Samuel Johnson dies in London. (b.1709)source

19th century

  • 1816Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774source

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