History of Newspaper & Printing

Newspaper History 

·                     59 B.C.: Acta Diurna the first newspaper is published in Rome.

·                     1556: First monthly newspaper Notizie Scritte published in Venice.

·                     1605: First printed newspaper published weekly in Antwerp called Relation.

·                     1631: The first French newspaper published, the Gazette.

·                     1645: Post-och Inrikes Tidningar is published in Sweden and is still being published today, making it the world's oldest newspaper.

·                     1690: The first newspaper is published in America, Publick Occurrences.

·                     1702: The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant. The Courant was first published (periodical)in 1621.

·                     1704: Considered the world’s first journalist, Daniel Defoe publishes the Review.

·                     1803: First newspapers published in Australia, the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

·                     1830: Number of newspapers published in the U.S. is 715.

·                     1831: The famous abolitionist newspaper The Liberator is first published by William Lloyd Garrison.

·                     1833: The New York Sun newspaper costs one cent - the beginning of the penny press.

·                     1844: First newspaper published in Thailand.

·                     1848: The Brooklyn Freeman newspaper is first published by Walt Whitman.

·                     1850: P.T. Barnum starts running newspaper ads for Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" performances in America.

·                     1851: The Post Office starts offering a special cheap newspaper rate.

·                     1855: First newspaper published in Sierra Leone.

·                     1856: The first full-page newspaper ad is published in the New York Ledger. Large type newspaper ads are made popular by photographer Mathew Brady. Machines now mechanically fold newspapers.

·                     1860: A "morgue" in newspaper terms means an archive. The New York Herald starts the first morgue.

·                     1864: William James Carlton of J. Walter Thompson Company begins selling advertising space in newspapers. The J. Walter Thompson Company is the longist running American advertising agency.

·                     1867: The first double column advertising appears for the department store Lord & Taylor.

·                     1869: Newspaper circulation numbers published by George P. Rowell in the first Rowell's American Newspaper Directory.

·                     1870: Number of newspapers published in the U.S. is 5,091.

·                     1871: First newspaper published in Japan - the daily Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun. Famous newspaper interview with explorer Stanley Livingston published.

·                     1873: First illustrated daily newspaper published in New York.

·                     1877: First weather report with map published in Australia. The Washington Post newspaper first publishes with a circulation of 10,000 and a cost of 3 cents per paper.

·                     1879: The benday process improves newspapers. The first whole page newspaper ad placed by an American department store (John Wanamaker) is run.

·                     1880: First halftone photograph (Shantytown) published in a newspaper.

·                     1885: Newspapers are delivered daily by train.

·                     1887: The San Francisco Examiner published.

·                     1893: The Royal Baking Powder Company becomes the biggest newspaper advertiser in the world.

·                     1903: The first tabloid style newspaper, the Daily Mirror is pblished.

·                     1931: Newspaper funnies now include Plainclothes Tracy starring Dick Tracy.

·                     1933: A war breaks out between the newspaper and radio industries. American newspapers try to force the Associated Press to terminate news service to radio stations.

·                     1954: There are more radios than there are daily newspapers.

·                     1955: Teletypesetting is used for newspapers.

·                     1967: Newspapers use digital production processes and began using computers for operations.

·                     1971: Use of Ooffset presses becomes common.

·                     1977: First public access to archives offered by Toronto Globe and Mail.

Printing History 

·                     618 to 906: T’ang Dynasty - the first printing is done in China using ink on carved wooden blocks begins to make multiple transfers of an image to paper.

·                     868: The Diamond Sutra is printed.

·                     1241: Koreans print books using movable type.

·                     1300: The first use of wooden type in China.

·                     1309: Europeans first make paper. However, the Chinese and Egyptians had started making paper centuries previous.

·                     1338: First papermill opened in France.

·                     1390: First papermill opened in Germany.

·                     1392: Foundries that can produce bronze type are opened in Korea.

·                     1423: In Europe block printing is used to print books.

·                     1452: In Europe, metal plates are first used in printing. Gutenberg begins printing the Bible which he finishes in 1456.

·                     1457: First color printing by Fust and Schoeffer.

·                     1465: Drypoint engravings invented by Germans.

·                     1476: William Caxton begins using a Gutenberg printing press in England.

·                     1477: Intaglio is first used for book illustration for a Flemish book called Il Monte Sancto di Dio.

·                     1495: First papermill opened in England.

·                     1501: Italic type first used.

·                     1550: Wallpaper introduced in Europe.

·                     1605: First weekly newspaper published in Antwerp.

·                     1611: King James Bible published.

·                     1660: Mezzotint invented in Germany.

·                     1691: First papermill opened in the American colonies.

·                     1702: Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon. The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.

·                     1725: In Scotland stereotyping invented by William Ged.

·                     1800: Iron printing presses invented.

·                     1819: Rotary printing press invented by Napier.

·                     1829: Embossed printing invented by Louis Braille.

·                     1841: Type-composing machine invented.

·                     1844: Electrotyping invented.

·                     1846: Cylinder press invented by Richard Hoe. Cylinder press can print 8,000 sheets an hour.

·                     1863: Rotary web-fed letterpress invented by William Bullock.

·                     1865: Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.

·                     1886: Linotype composing machineinvented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

·                     1870: Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.

·                     1878: Photogravure printing invented by Karl Klic.

·                     1890: Mimeograph machine introduced.

·                     1891: Printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 4-page papers an hour. Diazotype invented (print photographs on fabric).

·                     1892: 4-color rotary press invented.

·                     1904: Offset lithography becomes common. The first comic book is published.

·                     1907: Commercial silk screening invented.

·                     1947: Phototypesetting made practical