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105
Chinese paper (didn’t arrive in West for centuries) 105 A.D.
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540
Public library in Athens 540 B.C.
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Jan 9, 600
Egyptian papyrus scrolls 600 B.C.
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Jan 9, 1450
Gutenberg press (leads to Protestant Revolution, among other things) 1450
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Jan 9, 1500
1500s – Italian gazettes
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Jan 9, 1517
Martin Luther nails “Ninety Five Theses” to church door in Wittenberg, Germany 1517
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Jan 9, 1534
1534 – first press in America (Spanish America)
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1618 – Dutch Coranto (printed in English in 1620)
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1638 – first press in what would become U.S. (Harvard College)
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1644 – John Milton denounces licensing of the press in Areopagitica
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1665 - Oxford Gazette (first English-language newspaper) in England
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1690 – First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences (lasts one issue)
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1704 – First successful American newspaper: The Boston News-Letter
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1735 – John Peter Zenger trial
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1741 – First American magazines
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1791 – Bill of Rights (including First Amendment) ratified
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1827 – First African-American newspaper in U.S.: Freedom’s Journal
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1828 – Noah Webster publishes first dictionary
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1844 – Samuel Morse granted patent for telegraph. First message, May 24: “What hath God wrought?” Second message: “Have you any news?”
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1848 – Associated Press founded
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1860-1865 – Civil War brings home “necessity” of news
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1877 – Thomas Edison invents the “talking machine”
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1888 – Edison lab develops movie camera
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1888 – George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera
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1888 – Heinrich Hertz transmits wireless sound waves
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1890s – Edison develops mass market phonograph
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1891 –Edison patents Kinetoscope – first parlor opens 1894 in New York
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1899 – “Stunt girl” Nellie Bly circles the world
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Semitic alphabet in Egypt 1900-1800 B.C
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1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives radio message across the Atlantic (Morse code, point to point)
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1905 – First “nickelodeon”
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1906 – Reginald Fessenden broadcasts voice
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Phoenician Alphabet 2000 B.C.
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Sumerian “writing” system on clay tablets 3100 B.C.
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Sumerian stamp seals 4000 B.C.
