Annus mirabilis is a Latin expression (translated: year of miracles) derived from the same poem by John Dryden (1666, published in 1667). This term is sometimes used for a particularly productive year of a writer (Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth, 1798), philosopher (Jacques Derrida, 1967), scientist (Einstein, 1905) or scientific field (nuclear physics, 1932).

In 1798, Coleridge and Wordsworth published the bundle of Lyrical Ballads, which is seen as the beginning of Romance. In 1905, Einstein published four key articles. Trivia

The complement is annus horribilis, for example in the Netherlands, the Disaster Year 1672. In a speech, the British Queen Elizabeth mentioned an annus horribilis in 1992 as regards the royal family. Also see

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