{"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": 23, "years": 16, "span": [1709, 1816], "span_label": ["1709 CE", "1816 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 5}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "anne-queen-of-great-britain", "label": "Anne, Queen of Great Britain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hebrides", "label": "Hebrides", "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": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 18", "text": "18 September – Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (died 1784)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331109158#Births", "title": "1709 in Great Britain", "revid": 1331109158, "section": "Births"}}, {"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": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 30", "text": "30 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276007861#Events", "title": "1712 in Great Britain", "revid": 1276007861, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 2", "text": "2 March – Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835406#Events", "title": "1737 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835406, "section": "Events"}}, {"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": 1738, "year_label": "1738 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 18", "text": "18 September – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1237000775#Events", "title": "1738 in Great Britain", "revid": 1237000775, "section": "Events"}}, {"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": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 18", "text": "18 June – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835338#Events", "title": "1746 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835338, "section": "Events"}}, {"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": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 20", "text": "20 March – Samuel Johnson begins publication of the periodical The Rambler.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835160#Events", "title": "1750 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835160, "section": "Events"}}, {"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": 1758, "year_label": "1758 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 15", "text": "15 April – Samuel Johnson begins publishing the series of essays The Idler (1758–1760) in the Universal Chronicle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367633778#January_to_April", "title": "1758 in Great Britain", "revid": 1367633778, "section": "Events › January to April"}}, {"year": 1763, "year_label": "1763 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 16", "text": "16 May – James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835109#Events", "title": "1763 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835109, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1773, "year_label": "1773 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 6", "text": "6 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254179#Events", "title": "1773 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254179, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1774, "year_label": "1774 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July", "text": "July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360212704#Events", "title": "1774 in Wales", "revid": 1360212704, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is published.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738788#Events", "title": "1775 in Scotland", "revid": 1353738788, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "September 18", "text": "18 September - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband Henry on a visit to France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360213652#Events", "title": "1775 in Wales", "revid": 1360213652, "section": "Events"}}, {"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"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – Dr. Samuel Johnson dies in London. (b.1709)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360224448#Deaths", "title": "1784 in Canada", "revid": 1360224448, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360312413#English_language", "title": "1816 in Wales", "revid": 1360312413, "section": "Arts and literature › New books › English language"}}]}