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The term was in use in this sense as early as 1600, when Samuel Rowlands in his satire The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine, referred to 'a Bow-bell Cockney'. John Minsheu (or Minshew) was the first lexicographer to define the word in this sense, in his Ductor in Linguas ( 1617), where he referred to 'A cockney or cockny, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London'. However, the etymologies he gave (from 'cock' and 'neigh', or from Latin incoctus, raw) were just guesses, and the OED later authoritatively explained the term as originating from cock and egg, meaning first a misshapen egg ( 1362Centuries: 13th century 14th century 15th century Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s Years: 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 See also 1362 state leaders Events Under Edward III, English replace), then a person ignorant of country ways ( 1521Events January 3 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. January 28 Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. March 6 Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam. March 16 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. April 7 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.), then the senses mentioned above.
The church of St Mary-le-Bow was destroyed in the Great Fire of LondonThe Great Fire of London was a major fire that swept through the City of London from 2am September 2- 5, 1666, and resulted more or less in its destruction. Before this fire, the fire of 1212 which destroyed a large part of the city was known by the same and rebuilt by Christopher WrenSir Christopher Wren ( October 20, 1632 February 25, 1723) was an English architect of the seventeenth century, famous for his role in the re-building of London's churches after the Great Fire of London of 1666. Life and Times Wren is particularly known f. After the bells were destroyed again in 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St in the Blitz of World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, and before the bells were replaced in 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease, there was a period when no 'Bow-bell' Cockneys could be born.