Man. ii. 45. 
        Visits Oxford, iii. 452.
  1769 Appointed Professor in Ancient Literature to the Royal Academy,
ii. 67. 
        Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 67; iii. 452. 
        Visits Brighton, ii. 68. 
        Appears as a witness at Baretti’s trial, ii. 96.
  1770 The False Alarm, ii. 111. 
        Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 452.
  1771 Falkland’s Islands, ii. 134. 
        Revises the Dictionary, ii. 143, n. 3. 
        Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 141.
  1772 Revises the Dictionary, ii. 143, n. 3. 
        Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 452.
  1773 Publishes the fourth edition of the Dictionary, ii. 203. 
        Attempts to learn the Low Dutch language, ii. 263. 
        Tour of Scotland, ii. 266; v. 1. 
        Visits Oxford, ii. 268. 
        Begins his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 268.
  1774 Death of Goldsmith, ii. 279, n. 2. 
        Tour to North Wales, ii. 285; v. 427. 
        Visits Burke at Beaconsfield, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460.
        The Patriot, ii. 286. 
        Finishes his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 288.
  1775 Publishes his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 300.
        Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 312. 
        Becomes an LL.D. of Oxford, ii. 331. 
        Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 381; iii. 452. 
        Tour to France, ii. 384.
  1776 Visits Oxford, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Boswell, ii. 438. 
        Projected tour to Italy abandoned, iii. 6. 
        Visits Bath, iii. 44. 
        First dinner with Wilkes, iii. 64. 
        Visits Brighton, iii. 92.
  1777 Engages to write The Lives of the Poets, iii. 109. 
        Exerts himself in behalf of Dr. Dodd, iii. 139. 
        Meets Boswell at Ashbourne, iii. 135.
  1778 Writing The Lives of the Poets, iii. 360. 
        Visits Warley Camp, iii. 360.
  1779 Publishes the first four volumes of the Lives, iii. 370. 
        Writing the last six volumes, ib. 
        Death of Garrick, iii. 371. 
        Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 395.
  1780 Writing the last six volumes of the Lives, iii. 418. 
        Death of Beauclerk, iii. 420. 
        Visits Brighton, iii. 453.
  1781 Publishes the last six volumes of the Lives, iv. 34. 
        Death of Thrale. iv. 84. 
        Second dinner with Wilkes, iv. 101. 
        Visits Southill, iv. 118. 
        Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne, iv. 135.
  1782 Death of Levett, iv. 137. 
        Visits Oxford, iv. 151. 
        Takes leave of Streatham, iv. 158. 
        Visits Brighton, iv. 159.
  1783 Has a stroke of the palsy, iv. 227. 
        Visits Rochester, iv. 233. 
        Visits