Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
9 dated entries naming Samuel Johnson, drawn from 9 separate years between 1709 CE and 1784 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 (d. 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
- 1738September 18 – 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
- 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
- 1755April 15 – A Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson (he had begun the work nine years earlier, in 1746).source
- 1784December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer (b. 1709)source