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  • 100

    Dead Sea Scrolls witten in Aramaic/Hebrew script

  • 105

    Date dynastic records give to invention of paper

    Year that invention was officially reported to the emporer by Ts'ai Lun
  • 200

    Runic inscriptions begin in northen Europe

  • 476

    Death of Romulus Augustulus; fall of Rome

  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1500

    Middle Ages; "Dark Ages"

  • Jan 1, 712

    Earliest work of Japanese literature, Kojiki

  • Jan 1, 770

    Earliest well-defined block print extant, Japan

  • Sep 1, 1350

    Wycliffe translates the Bible into English

  • Sep 1, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg develops printing press process, Mainz, Germany

    Dr.H's video of printing press demo
  • Sep 30, 1452

    Johann Guttenberg's Bible becomes first book published in volume

  • Jan 1, 1476

    William Caxton opens London print shop

  • Sep 1, 1529

    English king becomes the undisputed head of the Church of England under Henry VIII

  • Jan 1, 1560

    Diego de Landa records Mayan "alphabet" in Yucatan

  • English settlers establish the Jamestown colony, Virginia

  • Puritans establish the Plymouth colony, Massachusetts

  • George Veseler and Broer Jonson print corrantos in Amsterdam

    corrantos: English-language weekly news sheets, from Latin "current" and "put togther"

  • Under Charles I England extends licensing to all printed material

  • Josh Milton publishes argument against censorship "Areopagitica"

  • Thomas Hobbes publishes "Leviathan" arguing for a commonwealth

  • Locke publishes the "Treatises on Government"

  • First ad in colonial newspaper, the Boston News-Letter

  • Cato's letters

  • Benjamin Franklin, "Father of American Advertising" purchases the Pennslyvania Gazette

  • Benjamin Franklin prints first ad in a magazine

  • First Amendment to the US Constitution ratified

  • Rosetta stone discovered in Egypt

  • P.T. Barnum regarded as "father of press agentry"

  • Samuel F.B. Morse develops electromagnetic telegraph

  • James Gordon Bennett's Herald publishes display ads

  • Telegraph line between D.C. and Baltimore opens

  • Transcontintental telegraph line replaces the Pony Express

  • Maxwell theorizes the existence of electromagnetic waves

  • Completion of first transatlantic telegraph

  • Edison invents electric light

  • Alexander Graham Bell files patent for the telephone

  • Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call

  • Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

  • Thomas Edison invents electric lightbulb

  • Heinreich Hertz transmits and receives radio waves

  • Edison's Kinetoscope

  • Nikola Tesla invents Tesla coil

  • Guglielmo Marconi initiates experiments with wireless telegraphy

  • Emile Berliner’s flat disc Gramophone appeared

  • Using Cinematopgraphe Lumiere brothers show the first film on a large screen

  • Marconi takes out first wireless telegraphy patent in England

  • Reginald A. Fessenden broadcasts voice by radio wave

  • Nathan B. Stubbledfield sends first marine broadcast

  • First American feature film, The Great Train Robbery

  • Albert Lasker, "father of modern advertising" becomes partner at Lord & Thomas

  • Lee De Forest files patent for Audion

  • Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

  • Pure Food and Drug Act passes

  • Reginald Fessenden transmits first radio broadcast for entertainment and music

  • Charles Herrold begins radio broadcasting in San Jose

  • Wireless ship act requires most ocean-going US passenger ships to have wireless

  • Titanic sinks

  • Congress enacts Radio Act of 1912

  • Federal Trade Commission created

  • Ivy Lee hired to remake John D. Rockefeller’s image

  • Griffith's Birth of a Nation

  • Sarnoff's "Radio Music Box Memo" appears

  • Motion Pictures Patent Co. declared illegal

  • US enters World War 1; government nationalizes all radio communication and patents

  • Owen D Young, general counsel of GE, sets up RCA

  • Edward Bernays publishes Crystallizing Public Opinion

  • The Walt Disney Company founded

  • The Eveready Hour first airs

  • AT&T, Warner Bros. patent system for synchronizing sound for film using recorded discs

  • David Sarnoff founds the National Broadcasting Company

  • Radio Act of 1927 passes

  • Philo Farnsworth transmits first televison image

  • Period: to

    Radio's Golden Age

  • Hays Code adopted

  • FDR airs first Fireside Chat

  • Congress establishes Federal Communications Commission, replacing Federal Radio Commission

  • Hindenburg disaster described over the air

    "This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world... oh, the humanity." --Herbert Morrison of WLS Chicago

  • Murrow broadcasts Hitler’s entry into Vienna

  • Orson Welles broadcasts "War of the Worlds"

  • RCA introduces television at the New York World’s Fair

  • Gone with the Wind premieres

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Roosevelt establishes the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Advertising Council, and the Office of Censorship

  • Radio broadcast covers D-day invasion

  • V-E Day

  • Boston University establishes first academic program in public relations

  • US vs. Paramount forces studios to divest their interests in theaters

  • Harold Burson co-founds Burson-Marsteller, today's largest PR agency

  • Freedom of Information Act takes effect

    FOIA website

  • Rolling Stone Magazine publishes first issue

  • Ray Tomlinson sends first internet based email

  • Horace Newcomb publishes book "TV: The Most Popular Art"

  • MTV launches

  • CDs appear on the market

  • Apple's "1984" commercial airs during Super Bowl

  • Studio Ghibli founded

  • Microsoft launches first retail version of Windows

  • Got Milk? ad campaign starts

  • Google founded

  • craiglist incorporated as a for-profit organization

  • Bush signs Patriot Act into law

    Text of "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001."

  • MySpace founded

  • Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins 11 Oscars

  • YouTube founded

  • Last episode of Arrested Development airs

  • Twitter founded

  • All full-power analog TV broadcasts end in US

  • Final installment in Harry Potter film seires released

  • Steve Jobs dies

  • Michele Smith becomes first female analyst for a national baseball broadcast

  • Last inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs

  • Cyrillic alphabet invented in Russia

  • Earliest printed book, China

  • Period: to

    T'ang Dynasty in China

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