Example: <event>

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13 Names, Dates, People, and Places


13.1.2 Dating Attributes

<event xml:id="eMBBfrom="1955-12-01"
 to="1956-12-20">

 <label>Montgomery Bus Boycott</label>
 <desc>A political and social protest campaign against the policy of
   racial segregation on the public transit system of the city of
 <placeName ref="#MONT">Montgomery</placeName>.</desc>
</event>

13.3.2.2 Personal Events

<person xml:id="WM">
<!-- ... -->
 <event type="marriagewhen="1859-04-26">
  <label>Marriage</label>
  <desc>
   <name type="personref="#WM">William Morris</name> and <name type="person"
    ref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Burden">
Jane Burden</name> were
     married at <name type="place">St Michael's Church, Ship Street, Oxford</name> on
  <date when="1859-04-26">26 April 1859</date>. The wedding was
     conducted by Morris's friend <name type="personref="#RWD">R. W.
       Dixon</name> with <name type="personref="#CBF">Charles
       Faulkner</name> as
     the best man. The bride was given away by her father,
  <name type="personref="#RB">Robert Burden</name>.
     According to the account that <name type="person"
    ref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones">
Burne-Jones</name>
     gave <name type="personref="#JWM">Mackail</name>
   <quote>M. said to Dixon beforehand <said>Mind
         you don't call her Mary</said> but he did</quote>. The entry in the
     Register reads: <quote>William Morris, 25, Bachelor Gentleman, 13
       George Street, son of William Morris decd. Gentleman. Jane Burden,
       minor, spinster, 65 Holywell Street, d. of Robert Burden,
       Groom.</quote> The witnesses were Jane's parents and Faulkner. None of
     Morris's family attended the ceremony. Morris presented Jane with a
     plain gold ring bearing the London hallmark for 1858. She gave her
     husband a double-handled antique silver cup.</desc>
  <bibl>J. W. Mackail, <title>The Life of William Morris</title>, 1899.</bibl>
 </event>
</person>
<person xml:id="RB">
 <persName>Robert Burden</persName>
</person>
<person xml:id="RWD">
 <persName>R.W. Dixon</persName>
</person>
<person xml:id="CBF">
 <persName>Charles Faulkner</persName>
</person>
<person xml:id="EBJ">
 <persName>
  <forename>Edward</forename>
  <surname>Burne-Jones</surname>
 </persName>
</person>
<person xml:id="JWM">
 <persName>J.W. Mackail</persName>
</person>

13.3.2.2 Personal Events

<event type="birthresp="#XYZcert="high">
 <p>Born in <name type="place">Brixton</name> on 8 January 1947.</p>
</event>
<event type="birthresp="#ABCcert="low">
 <p>Born in <name type="place">Berkhamsted</name> on 9 January 1947.</p>
</event>

13.3.4.3 States, Traits, and Events

<place xml:id="IS">
 <placeName xml:lang="en">Iceland</placeName>
 <placeName xml:lang="is">Ísland</placeName>
 <location>
  <geo>65.00 -18.00</geo>
 </location>
 <terrain>
  <desc>Area: 103,000 sq km</desc>
 </terrain>
 <state type="governancenotBefore="1944">
  <p>Constitutional republic</p>
 </state>
 <state type="governancenotAfter="1944">
  <p>Part of the kingdom of <placeName key="DK">Denmark</placeName>
  </p>
 </state>
 <event type="governancewhen="1944-06-17">
  <desc>Iceland became independent on 17 June 1944.</desc>
 </event>
 <state type="governancefrom="1944-06-17">
  <p>An independent republic since June 1944</p>
 </state>
</place>

13.3.4.3 States, Traits, and Events

<event type="meetingwhen="2007-05-29">
 <desc>All day meeting to resolve content models</desc>
 <event type="preamblenotAfter="13:00:00">
  <desc>first part</desc>
 </event>
 <event type="conclusions"
  notBefore="13:00:00">

  <desc>second part</desc>
 </event>
</event>

13.3.4.3 States, Traits, and Events

<listEvent>
 <event when="1713"
  ref="http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_01832">

  <label>Treaty of Utrecht</label>
  <desc>France ceded to Great Britain its claims to the <orgName>Hudson's Bay
       Company</orgName> territories in <placeName>Rupert's Land</placeName>,
  <placeName>Newfoundland</placeName>, and
  <placeName>Acadia</placeName> and recognized British suzerainty over <orgName type="tribe">the Iroquois</orgName> but retained its other pre-war
     North American possessions, including
  <placeName key="PEI">Île-Saint-Jean</placeName> (now <placeName key="PEI">Prince Edward
       Island</placeName>)...</desc>
 </event>
 <event when="1774key="14-GeoIII-c83">
  <label>Quebec Act</label>
  <desc>This act of the British Parliament guaranteed free practice of
     the Catholic faith and restored use of the French Civil Code for
     private matters throughout the Province of Quebec, which had been
     expanded in territory following the <ref>Treaty of Paris</ref>.</desc>
 </event>
 <event when="1778"
  ref="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/del1778.asp">

  <label>Treaty of Fort Pitt</label>
  <desc>Also known as the <name type="event">Treaty with the
       Delawares</name>, this was the first written treaty between the newly
     formed <orgName>United States</orgName> and any Native American people, in this
     case, the <orgName type="tribe">Lenape</orgName> or Delawares.</desc>
 </event>
</listEvent>

<event>

<person>
 <event type="matwhen="1972-10-12">
  <label>matriculation</label>
 </event>
 <event type="gradwhen="1975-06-23">
  <label>graduation</label>
 </event>
</person>

<event>

<person>
 <event type="matwhen="1972-10-12">
  <label>inscription</label>
 </event>
 <event type="gradwhen="1975-06-23">
  <label>diplômé</label>
 </event>
</person>

<event>

<person>
 <event type="matwhen="1972-10-12">
  <label>入學</label>
 </event>
 <event type="gradwhen="1975-06-23">
  <label>畢業</label>
 </event>
</person>

<listEvent>

<listEvent>
 <head>Battles of the American Civil War: Kentucky</head>
 <event xml:id="event01when="1861-09-19">
  <label>Barbourville</label>
  <desc>The Battle of Barbourville was one of the early engagements of
     the American Civil War. It occurred September 19, 1861, in Knox
     County, Kentucky during the campaign known as the Kentucky Confederate
     Offensive. The battle is considered the first Confederate victory in
     the commonwealth, and threw a scare into Federal commanders, who
     rushed troops to central Kentucky in an effort to repel the invasion,
     which was finally thwarted at the <ref target="#event02">Battle of
       Camp Wildcat</ref> in October.</desc>
 </event>
 <event xml:id="event02when="1861-10-21">
  <label>Camp Wild Cat</label>
  <desc>The Battle of Camp Wildcat (also known as Wildcat Mountain and Camp
     Wild Cat) was one of the early engagements of the American Civil
     War. It occurred October 21, 1861, in northern Laurel County, Kentucky
     during the campaign known as the Kentucky Confederate Offensive. The
     battle is considered one of the very first Union victories, and marked
     the first engagement of troops in the commonwealth of Kentucky.</desc>
 </event>
 <event xml:id="event03from="1864-06-11"
  to="1864-06-12">

  <label>Cynthiana</label>
  <desc>The Battle of Cynthiana (or Kellar’s Bridge) was an engagement
     during the American Civil War that was fought on June 11 and 12, 1864,
     in Harrison County, Kentucky, near the town of Cynthiana. A part of
     Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's 1864 Raid into
     Kentucky, the battle resulted in a victory by Union forces over the
     raiders and saved the town from capture.</desc>
 </event>
</listEvent>

1 The TEI Infrastructure


att.datable.custom

<event xml:id="FIRE1"
 datingMethod="#julianfrom-custom="1666-09-02"
 to-custom="1666-09-05">

 <head>The Great Fire of London</head>
 <p>The Great Fire of London burned through a large part
   of the city of London.</p>
</event>