Events for the tag:
| 1440 | "Promptorium Parvulorum" published |
| 1460 | "Medulla Grammatice" |
| 1483 | "Catholicon Anglicum" published |
| 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" |
| 1547 | Salesbury's "Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe" |
| 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" |
| 1573 | Baret's 'Triple Dictionarie' |
| 1580 | Baret's quadrilingual dictionary |
| 1587 | Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae" |
| 1589 | Rider's "Bibliotheca Scholastica" |
| 1593 | Holyband's "Dictionary French and English" published |
| 1604 | Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall' |
| 1607 | Cowell's "The Interpreter" |
| 1609 | 2nd edition of Cawdrey's "Table" |
| 1613 | 3rd edition of Cawdrey's "Table" |
| 1617 | 4th edition of Cawdrey's "Table" |
| 1617 | Minsheu's "Guide into Tongues" |
| 1623 | Cockeram publishes 'English Dictionarie' |
| 1626 | Smith's seaman's "Accidence" |
| 1633 | Holyoke's 'Dictionarium Etymologicum' |
| 1641 | 3rd edition of Bullokar's "Expositor" |
| 1642 | 7th edition of Cockeram's "Dictionarie" |
| 1644 | Manwayring's seafaring dictionary published |
| 1647 | Smith's combined grammar and dictionary. |
| 1656 | Blount publishes 'Glossographia' |
| 1656 | Further edition of Bullokar's "Expositor" |
| 1658 | Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words' |
| 1658 | 11th edition of Cockeram's "Dictionarie" |
| 1661 | 2nd edition of Blount's "Glossographia" |
| 1662 | 2nd edition of Phillip's "New World" |
| 1663 | Revised version of Bullokar's "Expositor" |
| 1668 | Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published |
| 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" |
| 1671 | Phillips' 'A General English Dictionary' |
| 1671 | Skinner's "Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae" |
| 1671 | 3rd edition of Phillip's "New World" |
| 1673 | Blount's attack on Phillips' plagiarism |
| 1674 | Ray's 'Collection of English words' published |
| 1674 | 4th edition of Blount's "Glossographia" |
| 1674 | Worlidge's "Systema Agriculturae" |
| 1676 | Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary' |
| 1677 | Coles' Latin dictionary |
| 1677 | Ainsworth's "Thesaurus linguae Latinae compendiarius" |
| 1678 | 4th edition of Phillip's "New World" |
| 1681 | 5th edition of Blount's "Glossographia" |
| 1694 | "Dictionnaire de l'Academie" published |
| 1697 | "Merchants Magazine" published |
| 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" |
| 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' |
| 1713 | Revised version of Kersey's "New English Dictionary" |
| 1715 | 2nd edition of Cocker's "English Dictionary" |
| 1715 | 2nd edition of "Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum" |
| 1719 | 2nd edition of "Glossographia Anglicana Nova" |
| 1720 | 2nd printing of Kersey's "New World" |
| 1720 | Calmet's "Dictionary of the Holy Bible" |
| 1721 | Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published |
| 1721 | 3rd edition of "Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum" |
| 1723 | Dyche's "A Dictionary" |
| 1723 | 2nd edition of "Dictionarium Sacrum" |
| 1724 | 3rd edition of Cocker's "English Dictionary" |
| 1724 | 2nd edition of Bailey's "Universal English Dictionary" |
| 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" |
| 1730 | Bailey's 'Dictionarium Britannicum' |
| 1731 | 11th, and final, edition of expanded "Expositor" |
| 1731 | 2nd edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal" |
| 1736 | 2nd edition of "Dictionarium Britannicum" |
| 1736 | "Dictionarium Domesticum" |
| 1737 | 3rd edition of 2nd volume of Bailey's "Universal" |
| 1747 | Johnson's 'Plan for a Dictionary' published |
| 1749 | Martin Benjamin publishes 'An English Dictionary' |
| 1754 | Martin Benjamin publishes 2nd edition of 'An English Dictionary' |
| 1755 | Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language' |
| 1755 | Bailey's 'A New Universal English Dictionary' |
| 1769 | Falconer's "Naval Dictionary" |
| 1780 | Thomas Sheridan's two-volume "General Dictionary of the English Language" |
| 1782 | 24th edition of Bailey's "Universal English Dictionary" |
| 1791 | John Walker publishes 'Critical Pronouncing Dictionary' |
| 1802 | 30th edition of Bailey's "Universal Etymological English Dictionary" |
| 1805 | Norrie's "Naval Dictionary" |
| 1806 | Webster's 'A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language' published |
| 1808 | Jamieson's ' An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language' |
| 1828 | Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language". |
| 1836 | Richardson's 'A new dictionary of the English language' published |
| 1848 | Bartlett's 'Dictionary of Americanisms' |
| 1850 | 'Imperial Dictionary: English, Technical and Scientific' by John Ogilvie |
| 1855 | Way's letter to "Notes and Queries" |
| 1855 | Reply to Way's letter in "Notes and Queries" |
| 1857 | Philological Society decide to collect words for supplement to current dictionaries |
| 1858 | Philological Society proposes new dictionary |
| 1859 | Worcester's "Dictionary" |
| 1861 | "Chambers' Dictionary of the English Language" published (1861), edited by A. J. Cooley, |
| 1865 | Janet Taylor's "The Mariner's Friend" |
| 1873 | English Dialect Society formed |
| 1884 | First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED) |
| 1884 | Wheatley's "Who was Cocker?" |
| 1898 | Morris's 'Austral English, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Phrases' |
| 1898 | Lake's 'Australasian Supplement' in ' Webster's International Dictionary' |
| 1898 | 1st volume of Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary' |
| 1901 | First edition of 'Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary' |
| 1911 | First edition of 'Concise Oxford Dictionary' |
| 1913 | Jones's 'A phonetic dictionary of the English Language' published |
| 1915 | Saito's 'Idiomological English-Japanese Dictionary' |
| 1917 | Jones's 'The English Pronouncing Dictionary' published |
| 1924 | First edition of 'Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English' |
| 1926 | Palmer's "A Dictionary of English Pronunciation" |
| 1928 | Final instalment of OED published |
| 1931 | Grant & Murison's 'The Scottish National Dictionary' |
| 1932 | Wyld's 'Universal Dictionary' |
| 1933 | First of 13 volumes of 'The Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles' |
| 1933 | 'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles' |
| 1934 | 3rd edition of Concise Oxford Dictionary published |
| 1934 | Palmer's 'Essay on Lexicology' |
| 1935 | West publishes 'The New Method English Dictionary' |
| 1940 | Hornby and Ishikawa publish ''A Beginners' English-Japanese Dictionary' |
| 1942 | 'An Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary' |
| 1946 | Starnes & Noyes' 'The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755' |
| 1947 | American College Dictionary first published |
| 1948 | A Learner's Dictionary of Current English (LDCE) |
| 1951 | Mathews' 'A Dictionary of Americanisms, on Historical Principles' published |
| 1952 | 'The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Dictionary' published |
| 1957 | Burchfield starts work on Supplement to OED |
| 1960 | First conference on lexicography for the English-speaking world. |
| 1961 | Webster's Third New International Dictionary published |
| 1962 | Barnhart's study of dictionary users |
| 1965 | "An International Reader's Dictionary" published. |
| 1966 | Pergamon's "Referenec Book of English Words and Phrases" |
| 1967 | 'Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles' |
| 1967 | 'Dictionary of Jamaican English' |
| 1969 | 'American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language' |
| 1970 | 'Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary' |
| 1971 | "Oxford English Picture Dictionary" |
| 1972 | 'A-G' supplement to OED |
| 1972 | Lewis's 'Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English' |
| 1973 | Quirk's investigation into dictionary use by native speakers |
| 1973 | 'A Concise Dictionary of Canadianisms' |
| 1974 | "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English" published |
| 1975 | 'Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English' published |
| 1976 | 'H-N' supplement to OED |
| 1978 | 'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' published |
| 1978 | 'Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles' |
| 1978 | Hornby and Ruse's 'Oxford Student's Dictionary of Current English' published |
| 1978 | Wilkes's "A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms" |
| 1979 | 'Longman Dictionary of English Idioms' published |
| 1979 | 'Dictionary of English Words in Context' published |
| 1979 | 'Heinemann New Zealand Dictionary' |
| 1979 | Tomaszczyk's study of dictionary users |
| 1979 | Steins' 'The best of British and American lexicography.' |
| 1979 | First British conference on lexicography for the English-speaking world |
| 1980 | Baxter's study of dictionary users. |
| 1980 | COBUILD project launched |
| 1980 | "Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary" published |
| 1981 | Bensoussan et al's study of dictionary users |
| 1981 | Bejoint's study of dictionary use published |
| 1981 | 'The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors' |
| 1981 | Delbridge et al's "The Macquire Dictionary" |
| 1981 | Longman's "Illustrated Science Dictionary" |
| 1981 | "Oxford-Duden Pictorial Dictionary" |
| 1981 | Harrap's "2000 Word Dictionary" |
| 1982 | 'Selected English Collocations' published |
| 1982 | 'O-Scz' supplement to OED |
| 1982 | 'Dictionary of Bahamian English' |
| 1982 | 'Dictionary of Africanisms' |
| 1982 | Dictionary of Newfoundland English |
| 1983 | 'Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Volume 2' published |
| 1983 | Mitchell's study of reading strategies and dictionary use |
| 1984 | Greenbaum et al's study on dictionary users published |
| 1984 | Tono's study of dictionary use |
| 1984 | Sidney I. Landau's 'Dictionaries. The Art and Craft of Lexicography' |
| 1986 | 'BBI Combinatory Dictionary' published |
| 1986 | 'Se-Z' supplement to OED |
| 1987 | 'Collins Cobuild English language Dictionary' published |
| 1987 | Moulin's study into the encoding use of dictionaries. |
| 1987 | Moulin's study into the encoding use of dictionaries. |
| 1988 | Dictionary of Prince Edward Island |
| 1989 | The Australian National Dictionary, A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles |
| 1989 | 2nd edition of OED |
| 1992 | Al-Ajmi's study of dictionary use |
| 1993 | 'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs' |
| 1995 | 'Cambridge International Dictionary of English' |
| 1997 | 'Dictionary of New Zealand English' |
| 1998 | 'The American Heritage English as a Second Language Dictionary' published |
| 1999 | Cowie's 'English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners' |
| 1999 | Lancashire's "Early modern English dictionaries database" |
| 2002 | 'Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners' |
