list of his
travels and visits, iii. 450-3; and for his residences, iii. 405, n. 6.)
  1709 Birth, i. 34.
  1712 ’Touched by Queen Anne, i. 43.
  1716 (about) Enters Lichfield School, i. 43.
  1725 Enters Stourbridge School, i. 49.
  1726 Returns home, i. 50.
  1728 Enters Pembroke College, i. 58. 
        Translates Pope’s Messiah, i. 61.
  1729 Returns home, i. 78, n. 2.
  1731 Death of his father, i. 80.
  1732 Usher at Market Bosworth, i. 84.
  1733 At Birmingham, i. 85, 86, n. 1.
  1734 Returns to Lichfield, i. 89. 
        Publishes proposals for printing Politian, i. 90. 
        Returns to Birmingham, i. 90. 
        Offers to write for the Gent.  Mag. i. 91.
  1735 Publishes Lobo’s Abyssinia, i. 87. 
        Marries Mrs. Porter and opens a school at Edial, i. 95, n. 2, 96.
  1737 Visits London with Garrick, i. 101. 
        Returns to Lichfield and finishes Irene, i. 107. 
        Removes to London, i. 110.
  1738 Becomes a writer in the Gent.  Mag. i. 113.
        London, i. 118. 
        Begins to translate Father Paul Sarpi’s History, i. 135.
        Life of Father Paul Sarpi, i. 139.
  1739 Seeks the Mastership of Appleby School and the degree of
Master of Arts, i. 132-3.
        Life of Boorhaave, i. 140.
        Marmor Norfolciense, i. 141.
  1740 Lives of Blake, Drake, and Barretier, i. 147. 
        Begins to write the Debates, i. 150.
  1741 Debates, i. 150.
  1742 Debates, i. 150.
        Lives of Barman and Sydenham, i. 153.
        Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153.
  1743 Finishes the Debates, i. 150.
  1744 Life of Savage, i. 161.
  1745 Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth, i. 175. 
        Sketching outlines of his Dictionary, i. 176, 182, n. 3.
  1746 Gets to know Levett, i. 243.
  1747 Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, i. 181.
        Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language, i. 182.
  1748 Writing the Dictionary.
        Life of Roscommon, i. 192.
        The Vision of Theodore the Hermit, i. 192.
  1749 Writing the Dictionary.
        Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 192.
        Irene acted, i. 196. 
        Forms the Ivy Lane Club, i. 190, n. 5. 
        Living in Gough Square, iii. 405, n. 6.
  1750 Writing the Dictionary. 
        Begins the Rambler, i. 201.
        Prologue for the benefit of Milton’s Grand-daughter, i. 227.
  1751 Writing the Dictionary_.
        The Rambler. 
        Lauder’s fraud exposed, i. 228.
        Life of Cheynel, i. 228.
  1752 Writing the Dictionary. 
        Ends The Rambler, i. 203.