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- 1689: Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple and meets Esther Johnson ("Stella")
- 1700: Charles Johnson, The Gentleman-Cully
- 1709: English writer, Samuel Johnson 1784
- 1709: September: Birth of Samuel Johnson
- 1712: Charles Johnson, The Wife's Relief
- 1712: Samuel Johnson is touched by Queen Anne to be cured of scrofula
- 1715: Charles Johnson, The Country Lasses
- 1717: Samuel Johnson enters Lichfield Grammar School
- 1724: Charles Johnson, General History of the Pirates
- 1725: Samuel Johnson is at Stourbridge
- 1728: Death of Esther Johnson (Jonathan Swift's "Stella")
- 1728: Samuel Johnson matriculates at Pembroke College, Oxford
- 1729: December: Samuel Johnson leaves Oxford and returns to Lichfield
- 1731: Death of Michael Johnson, father of Samuel Johnson
- 1732: Samuel Johnson is an usher at Market Bosworth School
- 1733: Samuel Johnson lives in Birmingham; translates Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia
- 1734: Charles Johnson, The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen
- 1735: Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth Jervis Porter ("Tetty")
- 1736: Samuel Johnson teaches at Edial school and begins Irene
- 1737: Death of Nathanael Johnson, brother of Samuel Johnson
- 1737: March 2: Samuel Johnson and David Garrick set off for London from Lichfield
- 1738: Samuel Johnson begins to write for The Gentleman's Magazine
- 1738: Samuel Johnson, "London," The Life of Sarpi, The State of Affairs in Lilliput
- 1739: Samuel Johnson makes a long visit to the Midlands
- 1739: Samuel Johnson, Marmor Norfolciense, A Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, translation of Crousaz's Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man
- 1740: Samuel Johnson begins his reports of the Parliamentary debates
- 1740: Samuel Johnson, Life of Blake, Life of Drake, Life of Barretier
- 1741: Samuel Johnson, Debates in the Senate of Lilliput for The Gentleman's Magazine (through 1744)
- 1743: Samuel Johnson begins work on the Harleian library
- 1744: Samuel Johnson, Life of Mr. Richard Savage
- 1744: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Richard Savage, The Harleian Miscellany
- 1745: Samuel Johnson, Proposals for a New Edition of Shakespeare, including Observations on Macbeth
- 1746: Samuel Johnson signs the contract for his Dictionary of the English Language, agreeing to deliver it in three years
- 1747: Samuel Johnson, Plan of the English Dictionary, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield
- 1748: Samuel Johnson, Preface to The Preceptor
- 1749: Samuel Johnson, Irene, produced by David Garrick, with an epilogue by Sir William Yonge
- 1749: Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, the letter on fireworks
- 1750: Samuel Johnson begins The Rambler (through 1752)
- 1751: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cheynel
- 1752: Death of Elizabeth Johnson ("Tetty"), wife of Samuel Johnson
- 1752: Samuel Johnson concludes The Rambler
- 1753: Samuel Johnson contributes to The Adventurer (through 1754)
- 1753: Samuel Johnson takes Frank Barber into his care
- 1754: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cave
- 1755: 7 February: Samuel Johnson's famous letter to Lord Chesterfield on the patronage of the Dictionary
- 1755: Samuel Johnson receives an honorary Master of Arts from Oxford
- 1755: Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language
- 1756: April: Samuel Johnson edits The Literary Magazine
- 1756: Samuel Johnson, Preface to Rolt's Dictionary of Commerce, Life of Frederick the Great
- 1757: Samuel Johnson, review of Soame Jenyns, An Enquiry into the Origin of Evil
- 1758: Samuel Johnson begins publishing The Idler (through 1760)
- 1759: Death of Sarah Johnson, mother of Samuel Johnson
- 1759: Samuel Johnson's moral tale Rasselas
- 1759: Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Introduction to The World Displayed
- 1760: Samuel Johnson stops publishing The Idler
- 1760: Samuel Johnson, "The Bravery of English Common Soldiers"; review of Tytler's Inquiry into Mary, Queen of Scots
- 1762: July: Samuel Johnson receives an annual pension of three hundred pounds
- 1763: James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson
- 1763: Samuel Johnson, "On the Life and Writings of Collins"
- 1764: Johnson, Gibbon, Goldsmith and others found London's Literary Club
- 1764: Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, with several lines by Samuel Johnson
- 1764: Samuel Johnson founds The Club
- 1765: Samuel Johnson meets Henry and Hester Thrale
- 1765: Samuel Johnson, The Works of William Shakespeare
- 1766: Samuel Johnson and William Chambers work on the Vinerian law lectures
- 1768: Samuel Johnson helps Henry Thrale with his campaign
- 1770: Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, with several lines by Samuel Johnson
- 1770: Samuel Johnson, The False Alarm, on the Wilkes affair
- 1771: March: Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on Falkland's Islands
- 1773: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell make their tour of the Hebrides
- 1774: Samuel Johnson and the Thrales travel to North Wales
- 1774: Samuel Johnson, The Patriot, against John Wilkes (November)
- 1775: Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- 1775: Samuel Johnson and Henry and Hester Thrale travel to France
- 1775: Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (January)
- 1775: Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
- 1776: May: Samuel Johnson has dinner with John Wilkes
- 1777: Samuel Johnson begins writing The Lives of the Poets and corresponds with Dodd
- 1779: Samuel Johnson begins publishing The Lives of the Poets (Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets)
- 1781: Samuel Johnson finishes publishing The Lives of the Poets (Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets)
- 1784: 13 December: Death of Samuel Johnson
- 1785: James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
- 1791: James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- 1798: Joseph Johnson and Gilbert Wakefield are imprisoned