Your last letter is dated the 31st of May, whence I conclude that you submit to the labour of writing to me once a fortnight only.
Your letter by this day's mail, dated the 13th, and postmarked the 12th, is one of those hasty and unsatisfactory scraps which neither improve you nor amuse me.
Your last letter, and the only one received within a month, is dated the 14th inst.
At the commencement of the campaign of Austerlitz a circumstance occurred from which is to be dated the fortune of a very meritorious man.
On the same day I received a letter from General Washington, dated the 22d of October, and enclosing copies of the articles of capitulation of Yorktown, and returns of prisoners, &c.
I have just received, through the hands of the Minister's Secretary, a letter from Mr Livingston, dated the 13th of December, marked No.
I have this morning received a letter from Berlin, dated the 30th ultimo, from a person who had recently left the Austrian head-quarters.
SIR, I received this evening the letter which your excellency did me the honour to write to me, dated the 11th instant, in answer to one which I had written to Rear-admiral Sir Samuel Hood on the 7th.
The Minister of France, waiting upon Mr Livingston at 12 o'clock agreeable to appointment, communicated to him a letter from the Count de Vergennes, dated the 19th of November.
From that time may be dated the misfortunes of Cagliostro.
Dated the tenth of the calends of April, in the Consulship of Aprianus and Capito.
Dated the fifth of the nones of July, Leo and Savinus Consuls.
Dated the fifth of the calends of April, in the Consulship of Frigius and Bassus.
Dated the fifth of the calends of July, in the fourth Consulship of Nero, and Messala.
To manuscript Number 6, dated the year 550 of our era, was attached the hilt of an iron dagger, black with the mould of ages.
To manuscript Number 2, dated the year 56 before Jesus Christ, was attached a little brass bell, very much like the bells which to this day are attached to the necks of cattle in Brittany.
To manuscript Number 5, dated the year 296 of our era, was attached a massive copper ornament that once formed part of the top of a casque and represented a lark with wings partly distended.
To manuscript Number 7, dated the year 615 of our era, a rusty branding needle was attached.
To proceed with the narrative: On the fifteenth of last March he was found dead in his chambers, and a more recent will was then discovered, dated thetwelfth of November of last year.
Look carefully at number one, which is the signature of the first will, dated three years ago, and compare it with number three, dated the eighteenth of September last year.
But if you look at number two, dated the sixteenth of September, you will see that it is in the later style.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dated the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
