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<birth>

birth

contains information about a person's birth, such as its date and place.

Module namesdatesCCAHPA

Attributes

@typecharacterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Sample values
caesarean
(caesarean section)
vaginal
(vaginal delivery)
exNihilo
(ex nihilo)
incorporated
founded
established
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

header

textcrit

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

Examples

<birth>Before 1920, Midlands region.</birth>
<birth when="1960-12-10">In a small cottage near <name type="place">Aix-la-Chapelle</name>,
early in the morning of<date>10 Dec 1960</date>
</birth>
<birth where="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q662158">Born on the Island of <placeName>North Uist</placeName>
</birth>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
  </content>