Numerals

1050. (1)

PPo 8.237 7 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote...from A. D. 1050 to 1600.

1067. (1)

ET10 5.160 1 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.

1136. (1)

ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate.

1217. (1)

Clbs 7.239 23 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.

1292. (1)

Clbs 7.239 20 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.

1373. (1)

Aris 10.42 9 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.

1450. (1)

ET12 5.203 12 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz (I believe in 1450);...

1453. (1)

Boks 7.205 19 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...

1470. (1)

Plu 10.294 25 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470...

1471. (1)

Boks 7.209 22 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...

1497. (1)

ET12 5.201 4 Hither [to Oxford] came Erasmus, with delight, in 1497.

1499. (1)

ET9 5.152 20 Amerigo Vespucci...who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...

1500. (3)

ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...

ET7 5.124 8 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.

ET9 5.145 11 A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the Relation of England, in 1500, says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.

1529. (1)

MAng1 12.224 9 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...

1530. (1)

MAng1 12.225 12 On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince of Orange assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.

1557. (1)

MAng1 12.226 17 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built, in 1557...

1559. (1)

Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.

1571. (1)

MoS 4.164 3 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...

1572. (2)

Plu 10.295 1 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.

Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.

1575. (1)

ET14 5.242 27 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...

1579. (1)

Plu 10.296 12 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579...

1580. (1)

ET12 5.201 4 Albericus Gentilis, in 1580, was relieved and maintained by the university [Oxford].

1583. (1)

ET12 5.201 9 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

1588. (1)

War 11.158 11 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...

1589. (1)

Plu 10.295 24 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.

1592. (1)

MoS 4.169 14 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.

1596. (1)

ET6 5.108 18 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is counted blest.

1600. (1)

PPo 8.237 7 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote...from A. D. 1050 to 1600.

1603. (1)

Plu 10.296 13 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603...

1613. (1)

ET12 5.201 12 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

1618. (1)

CPL 11.505 23 In 1618...John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...

1620. (5)

JBB 11.267 20 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620.

Shak1 11.453 13 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620.

Bost 12.189 6 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

Bost 12.191 5 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth.

Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted in 1620; in 1638 Harvard College was founded.

1622. (1)

Bost 12.190 5 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622...

1624. (1)

Bost 12.189 18 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...

1625. (1)

ET14 5.243 1 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...

1633. (1)

HDC 11.44 15 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England]...

1634. (2)

HDC 11.31 27 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634.

HDC 11.46 1 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...

1635. (3)

Farm 7.139 24 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.

HDC 11.32 6 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.

HDC 11.44 18 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.

1636. (1)

HDC 11.54 18 A military company had been organized [in Concord] in 1636.

1637. (1)

HDC 11.54 19 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637.

1638. (4)

HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...

HDC 11.54 20 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...

HDC 11.56 23 The college had been already gathered [at Concord] in 1638.

Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted in 1620; in 1638 Harvard College was founded.

1639. (3)

HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...

HDC 11.44 18 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court, as here, at Concord, in 1639.

HDC 11.54 23 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord]...were appointed.

1640. (2)

HDC 11.54 25 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.

HDC 11.55 9 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased...

1641. (1)

HDC 11.47 23 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...might introduce any business into a public meeting.

1642. (1)

CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...

1643. (3)

HDC 11.41 6 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...

HDC 11.55 4 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.

HDC 11.55 24 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...

1644. (4)

ET11 5.181 6 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...

HDC 11.46 8 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.

HDC 11.51 10 In 1644, Squaw Sachem...with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...

HDC 11.55 7 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty families.

1646. (1)

HDC 11.51 19 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...

1647. (2)

HDC 11.56 24 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

Bost 12.195 13 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

1648. (1)

EPro 11.315 19 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the English Commonwealth of 1648...

1651. (1)

HDC 11.54 1 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...

1653. (1)

HDC 11.57 8 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.

1654. (3)

HDC 11.42 2 At the same date, in 1654, the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...

HDC 11.57 13 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more than twenty years from 1654 to 1676.

HDC 11.57 14 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...

1659. (2)

HDC 11.61 7 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In 1659, his bones were laid at rest in the forest.

CPL 11.498 26 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...

1660. (1)

ET12 5.201 27 [At Oxford] on August 27, 1660, John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.

1666. (2)

ET11 5.178 22 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.

HDC 11.62 18 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...

1670. (1)

HDC 11.57 27 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind their hatchets...

1676. (5)

HDC 11.54 11 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...

HDC 11.57 14 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more than twenty years from 1654 to 1676.

HDC 11.58 23 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged, in Boston, in September, 1676.

HDC 11.61 26 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676...

HDC 11.63 7 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.

1682. (1)

ET12 5.201 13 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.

1683. (1)

ET12 5.202 3 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.

1685. (1)

HDC 11.63 10 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony; and on his return, in 1685, was a royal councillor.

1688. (1)

SwM 4.98 13 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg, born...in 1688.

1689. (2)

HDC 11.54 12 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers, and eighteen assemblies.

HDC 11.63 13 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros.

1696. (2)

Elo2 8.129 4 Lord Ashley, in 1696...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...

HDC 11.63 5 Edward Bulkeley was the pastor [in Concord], until his death, in 1696.

1699. (1)

HDC 11.64 2 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.

1701. (1)

CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the college;...

1705. (2)

HDC 11.48 10 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.

War 11.159 9 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit] to France, where he was introduced to the king.

1707. (1)

CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the college;...

1711. (1)

HDC 11.64 21 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

1712. (1)

HDC 11.65 6 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...

1716. (2)

SwM 4.99 14 In 1716, [Swedenborg] left home for four years...

SwM 4.99 23 [Swedenborg] published in 1716 his Daedalus Hyperboreus...

1718. (2)

SwM 4.99 18 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718...

Plu 10.317 4 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.

1721. (1)

SwM 4.99 21 In 1721 [Swedenborg] journeyed over Europe to examine mines and smelting works.

1734. (1)

SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...

1735. (2)

EzRy 10.384 11 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year 1735.

HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...

1738. (1)

HDC 11.66 5 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738.

1741. (1)

HDC 11.66 7 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.

1743. (1)

SwM 4.99 27 In 1743...what is called [Swedenborg's] illumination began.

1744. (1)

SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...

1751. (1)

EzRy 10.381 1 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O. S.)...

1751, Diet of, n. (1)

SwM 4.100 17 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.

1753. (1)

ET13 5.224 24 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...

1757. (1)

SwM 4.139 20 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.

1764. (1)

HDC 11.67 14 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord...

1765. (1)

HDC 11.67 23 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

1769. (1)

EWI 11.106 8 [Granville Sharpe] published his book in 1769...

1771. (1)

ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...

1772. (3)

SwM 4.101 9 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29, 1772, of apoplexy...

EzRy 10.382 13 ...[Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.

EWI 11.106 21 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...

1774. (1)

HDC 11.68 6 On the 24th January, 1774, in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the... endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...

1775. (8)

EzRy 10.382 15 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.

MMEm 10.400 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...a warm patriot in 1775, went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga...

HDC 11.72 8 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men.

HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.

HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...

HDC 11.79 1 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.

SMC 11.349 4 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.

CPL 11.501 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the British soldiers in 1775...

1776. (5)

EzRy 10.382 21 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...

HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.

HDC 11.81 20 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?

FSLC 11.204 16 In Massachusetts, in 1776, [Webster] would, beyond all question, have been a refugee.

EPro 11.315 20 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Declaration of American Independence in 1776...

1778. (1)

EzRy 10.383 1 Mr. Ripley was ordained minister of Concord November 7, 1778.

1780. (2)

EzRy 10.383 2 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...

HDC 11.81 27 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...

1781. (4)

ET11 5.178 14 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah, born August 18, 1781; Samuel...Daniel...

EWI 11.140 15 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...

CPL 11.499 2 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to 1804;...

1782. (2)

HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.

HDC 11.80 17 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...

1783. (4)

ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel, born May 11, 1783; Daniel...

HDC 11.67 27 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

EWI 11.107 21 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

1784. (2)

ET11 5.180 22 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...

EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784.

1786. (2)

ET11 5.183 3 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...

HDC 11.81 3 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...

1787. (1)

HDC 11.81 13 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.

1788. (2)

HDC 11.82 4 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States...

EWI 11.109 4 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.

1789. (5)

ET10 5.155 22 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.

ET18 5.303 16 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect...like that which intoxicated France in 1789.

CbW 6.254 14 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the fanaticism of the French regicides of 1789.

EWI 11.127 22 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

Bost 12.202 14 Bonaparte sighed for his republicans of 1789.

1791. (3)

EWI 11.109 6 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce...

EWI 11.109 22 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.

EWI 11.141 13 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...

1793. (2)

Suc 7.286 4 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.

EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of Poland, since 1793...

1794. (1)

ET7 5.123 2 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...

1795. (1)

HDC 11.48 12 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...

1796. (1)

NMW 4.232 13 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.

1797. (1)

ET7 5.122 27 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...

1799. (1)

Let 12.399 24 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were somewhat mortified to find that it was written in 1799.

1800. (3)

Wth 6.109 18 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

Wth 6.110 26 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.

JBS 11.277 17 John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.

1801. (1)

ET4 5.62 1 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...

1804. (2)

NMW 4.228 4 Fontanes, in 1804, expressed Napoleon's own sense, when... he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.

CPL 11.499 2 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to 1804;...

1805. (2)

Mrs1 3.129 1 In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.

Mrs1 3.142 19 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox] on the occasion of his visit to Paris, in 1805, Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.

1806. (3)

NMW 4.250 9 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.

Elo2 8.123 2 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...

SlHr 10.439 16 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University, when vacant in 1806.

1807. (3)

ET4 5.62 3 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...

EWI 11.109 25 ...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade was abolished.

FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.

1809. (2)

ET10 5.154 20 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.

Elo2 8.123 16 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams] was appointed Minister to Russia...

1810. (1)

ET6 5.109 17 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...

1812. (3)

Wth 6.109 18 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

Boks 7.209 17 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.

JBB 11.268 2 [John Brown's] father...became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...

1814. (2)

NMW 4.243 2 In 1814...Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen... my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.

NMW 4.258 9 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.

1815. (2)

ET10 5.155 22 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.

Scot 11.463 17 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815...

1817. (1)

Thor 10.451 8 [Thoreau] was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817.

1820. (4)

GoW 4.276 22 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and be well initiated in the life of Vienna and of Heidelberg in 1820...

ET15 5.263 24 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.

LLNE 10.325 19 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.

LLNE 10.330 15 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820...

1821. (1)

EWI 11.110 9 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.

1822. (1)

ET11 5.183 5 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors; and in 1822, by 32,000.

1823. (1)

Milt1 12.247 3 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.

1825. (3)

OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...

OA 7.332 9 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.

FSLN 11.239 21 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...

1829. (1)

ET10 5.158 25 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these interruptions [of labor]...

1830. (5)

MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830...

ET10 5.158 25 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these interruptions [of labor]...

ET10 5.159 10 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...

MMEm 10.420 9 HDC 11.82 14 [Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was 2020 souls.

1832. (1)

ET11 5.182 24 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.

1833. (6)

MoS 4.162 25 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...

ET1 5.3 1 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...

ET1 5.5 9 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.

MMEm 10.404 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.

EWI 11.112 1 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.

CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...

1834. (3)

EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...

EWI 11.112 23 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...

EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...

1834, n. (1)

EWI 11.117 3 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months, from 1st August, 1834, no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...

1835. (3)

LVB 11.90 27 The newspapers now inform us that, in December, 1835, a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...

EWI 11.116 27 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...

Shak1 11.452 6 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years,-the vintage of 1847, is it? or 1835?...

1837. (2)

Thor 10.451 9 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837...

EWI 11.115 9 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year 1837... describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.

1838. (5)

EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica...early in 1838, resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.

EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.

EWI 11.120 6 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.

EWI 11.120 13 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

Scot 11.462 9 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory. Lecture, Being and Seeming, 1838.

1840. (3)

LLNE 10.340 11 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...

CSC 10.373 1 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

EWI 11.120 27 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...

1841. (2)

LLNE 10.359 16 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841...

EzRy 10.383 7 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784. He died September 21, 1841.

1842. (2)

Tran 1.329 13 What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.

LLNE 10.363 9 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life;...

1843. (1)

ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture...

1844. (1)

SlHr 10.437 21 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina as the Commissioner of Massachusetts in 1844...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...

1845. (2)

LLNE 10.346 19 Robert Owen of Lanark came hither from England in 1845...

Thor 10.457 25 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...

1847. (7)

ET2 5.25 5 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union...

ET2 5.26 10 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.

ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.

ET15 5.269 16 On the days when I arrived in London in 1847, I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...

ET19 5.309 2 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...

Thor 10.458 7 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.

Shak1 11.452 6 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years,-the vintage of 1847, is it? or 1835?...

1848. (17)

ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...

ET4 5.64 15 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.

ET7 5.121 13 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848.

ET7 5.122 16 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...

ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...

ET10 5.160 17 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.

ET11 5.184 1 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...

ET12 5.199 14 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford... and went thither on the last day of March, 1848.

ET12 5.203 7 I saw the whole [Thomas Lawrence art collection] collection in April, 1848.

ET12 5.210 11 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848 [at Oxford]...

ET13 5.218 15 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...

ET15 5.264 7 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848...

ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...

ET17 5.294 8 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau...

Grts 8.306 6 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...

Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.

Carl 10.496 21 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...

1849. (2)

CbW 6.255 18 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.

MoL 10.243 2 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...

1850. (4)

FSLC 11.192 26 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.

FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.

FSLC 11.203 16 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.

FSLN 11.233 24 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.

1852. (1)

ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain, amounting in 1852 to more than a thousand a day.

1854. (3)

ET10 5.160 15 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000 in 1854.

FSLN 11.218 11 ...who are the readers and thinkers of 1854?

FSLN 11.242 9 ...[scholars and literary men] are lukewarm lovers of the liberty of America in 1854.

1855. (2)

ET11 5.187 2 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a baby?

GSt 10.502 3 As early as 1855 the Emigrant Aid Society was formed;...

1856. (2)

PPo 8.237 2 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna in 1856, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.

GSt 10.502 4 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee...

1856-57. (1)

GSt 10.502 19 For the relief of Kansas, in 1856-57, [George Stearns's] own contributions were the largest and the first.

1857. (1)

GSt 10.502 9 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...

1858. (1)

Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...

1859. (1)

EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition of Italy, until 1859...

1860. (1)

GSt 10.504 6 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, in January, 1860...is a chapter well worth reading...

1861. (6)

OA 7.315 2 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.

SMC 11.349 6 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.

SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.

SMC 11.365 22 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...

SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in Captain Prescott's company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...

SMC 11.366 26 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...

1862. (4)

GSt 10.503 8 In 1862...[George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...

SMC 11.365 25 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.

SMC 11.366 15 In August, 1862, on the new requisition for troops...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...

SMC 11.367 19 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.

1863. (2)

GSt 10.503 12 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...

SMC 11.368 14 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...

1864. (1)

SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...

1865. (1)

SMC 11.373 23 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...

1899. (1)

ShP 4.195 15 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the foundation laid by his predecessors, and 1899 were entirely his own.

200, No., Broadway, n. (1)

LLNE 10.353 10 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that of his particular Committee and General Office, No. 200 Broadway?

2000 Tremont Street, No., (1)

Clbs 7.244 18 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.

2373. (1)

ShP 4.195 13 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the foundation laid by his predecessors...

361. (1)

ET9 5.152 8 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison;...

406. (1)

ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].

427 A.C. (1)

PPh 4.43 23 [Plato] was born 427A.C....

50. (1)

Plu 10.293 9 It is agreed that he was born about the year 50 of the Christian era.

600. (1)

ET4 5.66 17 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...

6043. (1)

ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...

626. (1)

Imtl 8.323 1 In the year 626 of our era, when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...

845. (1)

Pray 12.351 20 Wacic the Caliph, who died A. D. 845, ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

896. (1)

ET12 5.203 10 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato, of the date of A.D. 896...

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