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Starnes, D. W. T. & Noyes, G. E. (1991). The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson. 1604-1755. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press
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Events:
149 events from this source recorded
1440
"Promptorium Parvulorum" published
1460
"Medulla Grammatice"
1483
"Catholicon Anglicum" published
1500
Wynken de Worde's 'Ortus Vocabulorum'
1525
Rastell's "Termes de la Ley"
1530
Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse'
1538
Elyot's "Dictionary"
1542
2nd edition of Elyot's "Dictionary"
1545
3rd edition of Elyot's "Dictionary"
1548
4th edition of Elyot's "Dictionary"
1552
Huloet's "Abcdedarium Anglo-Latinum"
1552
5th edition of Elyot's "Dictionary"
1553
Withals' 'A Shorte Dictionarie for Yonge Begynners'
1553
Stephanus' "Dictionarium"
1559
6th edition of Elyot's "Dictionary"
1565
Cooper's 'Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britanicae'
1573
Holyband's "The French Schoolmaster" published
1573
Baret's 'Triple Dictionarie'
1578
Florio's "First Fruits" published
1582
Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published
1586
Bullokar's 'Pamphlet for Grammar' published
1587
Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae"
1589
Rider's "Bibliotheca Scholastica"
1591
Stepney's 'The Spanish Schoolemaister'
1593
Holyband's "Dictionary French and English" published
1594
Greave's 'Grammatica anglicana' published
1596
Edmund Coote publishes 'The English Schoolemaister'
1598
John Florio's "A Worlde of Wordes"
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1606
1st of Holyoke's revisions of Rider's "Bibliotheca"
1607
Cowell's "The Interpreter"
1611
Cotgraves' 'Dictionary of the French and English Tongues'
1612
2nd of Holyoke's revisions of Rider's "Bibliotheca"
1613
3rd edition of Cawdrey's "Table"
1616
Bullokar publishes 'English Expositor'
1617
4th edition of Cawdrey's "Table"
1617
3rd of Holyoke's revisions of Rider's "Bibliotheca"
1617
Minsheu's "Guide into Tongues"
1623
Cockeram publishes 'English Dictionarie'
1641
Bullokar dies
1641
3rd edition of Bullokar's "Expositor"
1642
7th edition of Cockeram's "Dictionarie"
1654
Blount's "Academie of Eloquence"
1656
Further edition of Bullokar's "Expositor"
1656
Blount publishes 'Glossographia'
1658
11th edition of Cockeram's "Dictionarie"
1658
Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words'
1661
2nd edition of Blount's "Glossographia"
1661
Morgan's "Sphere of Gentry"
1662
2nd edition of Phillip's "New World"
1663
Revised version of Bullokar's "Expositor"
1663
Coles working as a teacher in London
1667
Blount edits Rastell's "Termes de la Ley"
1669
"Science Herolque"
1670
12th edition of Cockeram's "Dictionarie"
1670
Blount's "A Law Dictionary"
1670
3rd edition of Blount's "Glossographia"
1670
"Les Arts de l'Homme d'Epee"
1670
Ray's "Collection of English Proverbs"
1671
3rd edition of Phillip's "New World"
1671
Skinner's "Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae"
1673
Blount's attack on Phillips' plagiarism
1673
Head's "The Canting Academy"
1674
4th edition of Blount's "Glossographia"
1674
Coles' treatise on shorthand
1674
Ray's 'Collection of English words' published
1674
Worlidge's "Systema Agriculturae"
1676
Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary'
1677
Coles an usher at Merchant Taylors'
1677
Coles' Latin dictionary
1678
4th edition of Phillip's "New World"
1678
Coles master of school in Galway
1679
Blount's "Fragmenta Antiquitatis"
1680
Death of Coles
1681
5th edition of Blount's "Glossographia"
1689
"Gazophylacium Anglicanum" published
1696
Death of Phillips
1696
5th edition of Phillip's "New World"
1697
"Merchants Magazine" published
1700
6th edition of Phillip's "New World"
1701
Kennett's revision of Cowell's "Interpreter"
1701
Morery's "Dictionary"
1702
Kersey's 'New Dictionary'
1704
Cocker's "English Dictionary"
1704
Harris' "Lexicon Technicum"
1704
"Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum and Botanicum"
1705
"The Gentleman's Dictionary"
1706
Kersey's revision of Phillips' "New World"
1707
Final revision of Bullokar's "Expositor"
1707
"Glossographia Anglicana Nova"
1708
Kersey's 'Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum'
1708
Dyche's "Vocabularium Latiale"
1709
Dyche's "A Guide to the English Tongue"
1709
Dyche's "Guide to the English Tongue"
1713
Revised version of Kersey's "New English Dictionary"
1713
3rd edition of Dyke's "Proverbs"
1714
Rowe's edition of Shakespeare's work
1715
2nd edition of Cocker's "English Dictionary"
1715
2nd edition of "Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum"
1715
Hughes' volumes of Spenser's works
1716
Dyche's "The Youth's Guide to the Latin Tongue"
1719
2nd edition of "Glossographia Anglicana Nova"
1720
Reprint of Kersey's revision of Phillips' "New World"
1720
2nd printing of Kersey's "New World"
1720
Calmet's "Dictionary of the Holy Bible"
1720
Cox's "Magna Britannia et Hibernia"
1721
3rd edition of "Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum"
1721
Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published
1721
Urry's edition of Chaucer's work
1723
Dyche's "A Dictionary"
1723
2nd edition of "Dictionarium Sacrum"
1723
Dyche's "Dictionary"
1724
3rd edition of Cocker's "English Dictionary"
1724
2nd edition of Bailey's "Universal English Dictionary"
1724
Guillim's "Display of Heraldry"
1725
Pope's edition of Shakespeare's work
1725
Coats' "New Dictionary of Heraldry"
1725
"New Canting Dictionary"
1726
3rd edition of "Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum and Botanicum"
1726
3rd edition of Bailey's "Universal English Dictionary"
1727
2nd volume of Bailey's dictionary
1728
Chambers' "Cyclopaedia"
1730
Bailey's 'Dictionarium Britannicum'
1731
11th, and final, edition of expanded "Expositor"
1731
3rd edition of Dyche's "Dictionary"
1735
Dyche & Pardon's "General English Dictionary"
1736
2nd edition of "Dictionarium Britannicum"
1736
"Dictionarium Domesticum"
1736
2nd edition of Bailey's "Dictionarium Britannicum"
1737
3rd edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal"
1742
Death of Bailey
1744
1st revision of Dyche & Pardon's "General English Dictionary"
1756
4th edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal"
1756
7th edition of Dyche's "Dictionary"
1757
Buchanan's "Linguae Britannicae"
1759
Alternative 4th edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal"
1760
5th edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal"
1766
Buchanan's "Elegant and Uniform Pronunciation"
1774
48th edition of Dyche's "Guide to the English Tongue"
1775
Penultimate edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal"
1776
Final edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal"
1782
24th edition of Bailey's "Universal English Dictionary"
1794
17th edition of Dyche & Pardon's "General English Dictionary"
1802
30th edition of Bailey's "Universal Etymological English Dictionary"
1806
Reprint of Dyche's "Vocabularium Latiale"
1830
Last reprint of Dyche's "Guide to the English Tongue"
1855
Way's letter to "Notes and Queries"
1855
Reply to Way's letter in "Notes and Queries"
1884
Wheatley's "Who was Cocker?"