Hot to get earliest date from list of dates

I need to return the earliest date in a list of dates in a formula. Any idea how to do this?

Here's what I have so far (just the list variable declaration):

var list dateList = list( [Date stage set to Ready for Editor],
[Date stage set to Ready to send to client],
[Date stage set to sent to client for approval],
[Date stage set to approved by client],
[Date stage set to Published]
);


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Matt Makris
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