epochal

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Boston's John Adams is already predicting exultantly: "The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America."

From Time Magazine Archive

Cook, has formed a singular epocha in geography; a doubt having arisen from it, whether to a land of such magnitude the name of island or that of continent may more properly be applied.

From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Phillip, Arthur

At length the great day for this vast empire has arisen, which will be the grand epocha of its history.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria

We only trace the rise of feux-de-joie, or fireworks, given merely for amusing spectacles to delight the eye, to the epocha of the invention of powder and cannon, at the close of the thirteenth century.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

It was an event of antient date; and admitted, as a remarkable epocha, in the most early series of chronology.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob