The Annual Cyclopedia was an American yearbook covering the years 1861–1902 by the New York publisher D. Appleton & Company. It was a comprehensive yearbook of events, obituaries and statistics, worldwide, with many articles written by experts, some of them signed.

It was sold as an annual supplement to the New American Cyclopedia in 16 volumes, edited by George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, 1857–1863. When that encyclopedia was enlarged as American Cyclopedia (1873–1876), the Cyclopedia started a new series.

Sets are held in major libraries, and some volumes are online.

It appeared under several titles:

  • The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events. Embracing political, civil, military, and social affairs: public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry. (1862–75)
  • Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events embracing political military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry : a general and analytical index to the American cyclopaedia.
  • The Annual Cyclopedia
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia
  • Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia
  • American annual cyclopedia and register of important events (1876-1903)
  • American Annual Cyclopedia

Appleton also published a six volume biographical compendium, many of whose articles are linked in Wikipedia: James Grant Wilson, and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (D. Appleton and company, 1887) online vol 2

The editors included fake biographies to spot copyright violators, but no such accusation was made against the Annual Cyclopedia.[1]

Online copies

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Year available online
1861 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1861
1862 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1862
1863 1863
1864 1864
1865 1865
1866 1866
1867 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1867
1868 1868
1869 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1869
1870 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1870 - cannot be read online
1871 1871
1872 1872
1873 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1873
1874 The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: 1874
1875 1875
1876 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1876
1877 1877
1878
1879
1880 1880
1881 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1881
1882 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1882
1883
1884 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1884
1885
1886
1887 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1887
1888 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1888
1889 1889
1890
1891
1892
1893 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1893
1894
1895 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1895
1896 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1896
1897
1898 1898
1899 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year: 1899 - cannot be read online
1900 1900
1901 Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry: 1901 - cannot be read online
1902 Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events: 1902

Notes

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  1. ^ Dobson, John Blythe. "The Spurious Articles In" Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Some New Discoveries and Considerations." Biography (1993): 388-408.
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