“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. This beginning of time, according to our chronology, happened at the start of the evening preceding the 23rd day of October in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710 [4004 B.C.].” — James Ussher, The Annals of the World, 1658

“The Middle Ages ended on July 16, 1453, at 12 o’clock meridian, and the Reformation was not launched by Martin Luther until October 31, 1517, at 10:15 a.m.” — H.L. Mencken, “The Collapse of Protestantism,” American Mercury, March 1925

“On or about December 1910 human character changed.” — Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” 1924