Johnson's dictionary of the English language in miniature : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in England and Wales.

  • Samuel Johnson
Date:
1822
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Credit: Johnson's dictionary of the English language in miniature : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4i>9 WJncbcomb, Gloucestcndiire, baturday. WbicMsea, Sussex, Saturday ...07 WINCHESTER, Hants, Wed. Sat... Windsor, Berkshire, Saturday Wl lay Winster, Derbyshire, Saturday..... . Wirk-.a .itn, Deioyshire, I .u • iy... -Wisbich, C'ambii igesture, Saturday W is ton, Pembrokeshire, Saturday 2.js Witham, Essex, Tuesday* 3* Wit bey, Oxfordshire, Thursday (V VViveUcomb, Somersetshire, Tuesday. .136 Woking, Surry, Tuesday 28 Wooburn, Bedfordshire, Friday 1 Wooburn, Bucks, Friday ...2^ Woodbridge, Suffolk, Wednesday 7V Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Tues lay 63 Wool pit, Suffolk, Thursday 04 WooSer, Northumberland, Thursday. •• .317 Wolverhampton,Staffordshire, Wed. ...i?4 Woolwich, Kent, Friday 10 WORCESTER,Worcestersh. W. F. S.. ill Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Wed mo Worsted, Norfolk, Saturday l«l Wotton, Gloucestershire, Friday 108 Wot tan, Basset, W iltshire, Thursday 89 Wrexham, Denbighshire, Mon. Thuts...l86 Wiinton, Somersetshire, Tuesday 149 Wrotham, Kent, Tuesday .....?$ iVycomb High, Bucks, Friday 99 Wye, Kent, Thursday 56 Wyndham, Norfolk, Friday.. 100 Yarmouth, Hants, Friday 940 Yarmouth, Norfolk, Saturday 100 ! Varum, Yorkshire,Thursday 120 Yaxley, Huntingdonshire, Tuesday 77 iVeovil, Somersetshire, Friday 143 I YORK, Yorkshire, Thursday, Saturday. .1 A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF REMARKABLE EVENTS, DISCOVERIES, AND INVENTIONS; Also, The AIR A, COUNTRY, and WRITINGS, of LEARNED MEN. [The whole comprehendim», in ono view, the Analysis or Outlines ol‘ General History from the Creation to the present Time.] Before Christ. *'I‘,HE creation of the world, and Adam and F.ve 4004 -1- The old world destroyed by a deluge, which continued 377 days 234 § The Tower of Babel is l#ui!t about 2447 by Noah’s posterity, upon which God miracu- lously confounds their language, ami disperses them into different nations About tiie same time Noah is supposed to have parted from his rebellious offspring, to have proceeded eastward, and to have founded the Chinese monarchy The celestial observations are begun at Baby lon • *2433 Misraim, the son of Ham, founds the kingdom of Egypt 2lb8 Ninus, the son of Belus, found the kingdom of Assyria, which lasted above 1000 years, and out of its ruins were founded the Assyrians of Babylon, those of Nine- veh, and the kingdom of the Medes 20vo The covenant of God made with Abram, when he leaves Hanoi to go into Canaan.. 19*1 Sodom and Gomorrah are destroy ed for their sins by fire from heaven 1*97 Me.nnon, the Egyptian, Invents the letters lb** Prometheus first struck fire from dints IT'S Joseph dies i:i Egypt, which concludes the hook of Genesis l&k* Cecrops brings a colony from Egypt, and begins the kingdom of Athens l3oT» Scmnander conics from Crete into Phrygia, and begins the kingdom of Troy md Cadmus carried the Phoenician letters into Greece, and built the citadel of Thebes. .1491 . Moses performs a numbei of miracles in Egypt, and departs from that kingdom, toge- ther with Goo,000 Israelites, besides children The first ship that appeared in Greece was brought from Egypt by Danaus, who arriv- ed at Rhodes, and brought with him his fifty daughters 145