Newspapers

By holly595

  • One

    The first newspaper in England was printed. (However the word newspaper was not recorded until 1670)

  • Two

    The first American newspaper was printed.

  • Three

    The first successful daily newspaper in \Britain was printed. It was called Publick Occurrences both Forreign and Domestick.

  • Four

    The first newspaper in Canada was the Halifax Gazette.

  • Six

    In Britain the first Sunday newspaper was the British Gazetted and the Sunday Monitor published.

  • Five

    The first daily American newspaper was published.

  • Seven

    The Daily Universal Register was first published.

  • Eight

    It was renamed The Times

  • Eleven

    The Observer was founded

  • Seventeen

    The first Australian newspaper was published. It was called the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

  • Nine

    The Times was printed with a steam-powered press for the first time.

  • Thirteen

    The Manchester Guardian was founded. It changed its name to The Guardian in 1959.

  • Fourteen

    The Sunday Times was first published

  • Sixteen

    The News of The World was published.

  • Ten

    The Times used a rotary printing press with the printing face wrapped around a cylinder for the first time.

  • Twelve

    The Daily Telegraph was first published.

  • Twenty one

    Stamp duty on newspapers was abolished and they became cheaper and more common.

  • Eighteen

    The New York Graphic became the first newspaper to print a photo.

  • Fifteen

    The Financial Times began.

  • Nineteen

    In Briatin the first tabloid newspaper was the Daily Graphic.

  • Twenty

    It became the first British Newspaper to print a photo.

  • Twenty Three

    The Daily Mail was first published

  • Twenty Four

    The Daily Express was first published

  • Twenty Five

    The Daily Mirror began publication.

  • Twenty Seven

    The Sunday Telegraph was founded and in 1962 The Sunday Times became the first newspaper to publish on Sunday colour supplement.

  • Twenty Six

    The Daily Herald became The Sun and the Daily Star was founded in in 1978.

  • Twenty Two

    By the beginning of 20th Century Fleet Street was the centre of the British newspaper industry. However, newspaper owners moved away from Fleet Street. At that time computer technology replaced the old labour intensive methods of printing.

  • Twenty Eight

    The Mail on Sunday began.

  • Twenty Nine

    The Independant was first published.

  • Thirty

    Today became the first colour newspaper in Britain.

  • Thirty One

    The Press Complaints Commission was created.

  • Thirty Two

    Metro, a free newspaper for commuters was first published in Britain.

  • Thirty Three

    It was abbreviated version of the Independant called "I was launched"

  • Thirty Four

    The News Of The World ceased publication