Chronography of Newspapers and Comics
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Daily Mail,
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Economist (past issues) https://www.economist.com/printedition/covers?print_region=76981
Financial
Times, https://www.ft.com/
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Guardian,� https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian
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Guardian
Notes & Queries, https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/series/guardian-weekly-notes-and-queries
Reuters, https://uk.reuters.com/
Russia
Today, https://www.rt.com/
New
Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/
Sky News, https://news.sky.com/
The
Telegraph, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
The Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/
Newspapers � UK,
10 July 2011, In Britain, the News of the
World published its last edition, forced to close by a phone-tapping
scandal and consequent withdrawal of advertising.
21 January 2005, Reginald
Cudlipp, Editor of the News of the World, died (born 11 December 1910).
18 April 2001, Woman�s Realm, a
43-year-old ladies magazine, was closed by its publishers, IPC media.
1999, The Metro, a free newspaper distributed on public transport, was
launched. It was produced by Associated Newspapers, part of the Daily Mail
Group.
15 November 1995, The Today newspaper ceased
publishing.
1/1994, The Guardian had a readership of 1,458,000, of whom 53% were men.
Its ABC1 readership was 401,705, or about 84% of all ABC1 readers; however this
fugure of 401,705 was down 4.4% on a year earlier, due to a price cut by the
Times
1992,
In Britain the Weekly Journal, a publication
amed at Black professionals, was launched. It had a circulation of 25,000 in
1998.
1992,
Lord Snooty was dropped from The Beano.
8 April 1992, Punch magazine published its last issue.
However it was resurrected in 1996.
25 March 1992, United
Newspapers announced the closure of Punch
magazine, after 150 years of publication.
5 December 1991, Sons of
the late Robert
Maxwell called in the administrators in an attempt to msalvage the
Maxwell business empire, then facing debts of over US$ 1 billion.
1 January 1991, The Press
Complaints Commission was founded, replacing the Press Council (see 21 July 1953).
1990, In Britain, the Independent
on Sunda was launched.
13 December 1990, The Northern Echo newspaper, Darlington,
UK, became the first paper to appear on CD-ROM.
10 May 1990, The European newspaper was launched by Robert Maxwell.
1989, The Daily Sport
was founded in Manchester.
17 September 1989, The Sunday Correspondent was launched. It
closed in 11/1990.
1988, The Scotland on
Sunday was founded.
1988, In Britain, Hello!
Magazine was founded, a version of the Spanish !Hola! periodical. It reports good news about famous people.
11/1988, The Post
newspaper was founded by Eddie Shah. It closed after just 33 issues.
1 November 1988, Batman�s faithful sidekick, Robin, was killed off by The Joker after a reader�s poll of DC
Comics voted he should go.
1987, The Times and Sunday Times moved offices from Fleet
Street, central London, to Isle of Dogs, Docklands. In 1986 they had also
opened a new print plant in Manchester.
2/1987, The London Daily
News was launched by Robert Maxwell. It closed in 7/1987 when the Evenoing News was
temporarily relaunched.
1986, The Sunday Sport
was founded in Manchester,
6 October 1986, In Britain a new newspaper, The Independent,
began publication.
15 May 1986, Theodore H White, journalist, died.
4 March 1986, The
first issue of the newspaper �Today� appeared; it was published
by Eddie Shah. It was
Britain�s first daily newspaper to be printed in colour.
25 January 1986, Overnight,
to avoid Trades Union objections, the Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and News of
the World moved from Fleet Street London to a new production plant at Wapping.
1983, Eddie Shah founded the Messenger Group, producing free
newspapers nwith non-Union labour.
1983, The Asian Times
was established in the UK for the Asian Community, In 1998 it had a circulation
of just over 30,000.
1982, The Mail on Sunday
began publication.
1981, The Caribbean Times,
a weekly newspaper, was established. By 1998 it had a circulation of 24,500.
12 February 1981, Rupert Murdoch bought The
Times.
31 October 1980, The London Evening News closed. The Evening Standard became The Standard.
1979, The subversive magazine Viz began publication.
13 November 1979, The Times reappeared after a year�s absence.
9/1979, Now magazine
first appeared, founded by James Goldsmith. It closed in 3/1981.
30 November 1978, The Times stopped publication because
of an industrial dispute. Industrial relations problems continued at The Times until 13 November 1979.
1 November 1978, The
British newspaper The Daily Star went on sale in
the north and midlands.� It was owned by
Express newspapers.
5 May 1975, The Scottish Daily News, a worker�s
co-operative newspaper, was launched. However it closed in October 1975,
despite intervention by Robert Maxwell.
14 October 1973, Edmund A.
Chester, US journalist, died.
1972, Gay News, the largest-circulation homosexual newspaper in Britain,
began publication. It ceased publication in 1983, biut was incorporated in Gay
Times in 1984.
9 December 1972, Louella Parsons,
gossip columnist, died.
11 May 1971. The
British newspaper, The Daily Sketch,
appeared for the last time. It was merged with the Daily Mail, which had
changed from broadsheet to tabloid format.
13 February 1970, The first
edition of The Irish Post, which has
the largest circulation of a British newspaper for Great Britain's Irish community,
was published.
2 January 1969, Australian
media magnate Rupert
Murdoch bought the News of the World Group. This gave him his forst
stake in Fleet Street.
11 January 1968. A new
magazine, Student, hit Britain�s
newsstands. Its publisher, Richard Branson, hoped the new magazine would
become the voice of Britain�s youth.
2 May 1966, The Times
carried news headlines on its front� page
instead of advertising for the first time. See 1939.
15 September 1964, The
Sun was first published. See 16 April 1912. It failed to prosper and
was bought by Rupert Murdoch in 1969. The Page
Three Girl appeared in 1970. The Sun became mpore popular and overtook its
main rival The
Mirror in readership in 1976. In 1992 both
papers had just under 3.7 million readers.
14 September 1964. The British
daily newspaper, The Herald, closed and was replaced by The Sun.
9 June 1964. British newspaper
tycoon Lord Beaverbrook died, aged 85.
1963, The Sunday Mirror was
founded.
14 September 1963, The first issue of The Hornet, boy�s comic, was published.
8 July 1963, The Fred Bassett
cartoon first appeared in The Daily Mail.
1962, The New Society, a weekly sociology magazine, was founded. It merged
with the New Statesman in 1988.
4 February 1962. The Sunday Times became the first paper to issue a colour supplement.
The idea was expected to fail.
25 October 1961. The
satirical magazine Private Eye was
published for the first time. Pete4r Cook saved it from bankruptcy in 4/1962
5 February 1961. The Sunday Telegraph began publishing.
17 October 1960, The
British daily newspaper News Chronicle
ceased publication and was incorporated into the Daily Mail.
13 July 1960, Ian Hislop,
editor of Private eye, was born.
1958, The Perishers
cartoon strip began in the Daily Mirror. It ran until 2006.
13 November 1957, Alexandra Shulman,
editor of Vogue, was born
10/1957, The consumer magazine Which
had its first issue. Kettles were reviewed in ther first issue, and
subsequently two manufacturers revised their designs to fit with thye consumer
recommendations. Which�s membersDigesthip reached 100,000 by 1958, and the
magazine began appearing monthly instead of quarterly. By 1991 there were
nearly one million members.
5 August 1957, The Andy Capp
cartoon first appeared in The Mirror newspaper.
1956, The New Scientist began publication, a popular science journal.
12/1953, |Playboy was founded by Hugh Heffner.
9 April 1926, Hugh Hefner,
publisher of Playboy, was born.
21 July 1953, The first meeting of the Press Council, in London. See 1 January 1991.
20 January 1952, John Witherow, newspaper editor at The Times, was born
12 March 1951, Dennis The Menace
first appeared in the USA. He first appeared in the UK in The Beano on 17 March 1951.
1950, Peak daily newspaper sales in the UK of 17 million copies,
with total UK population of around 50 million.
16 March 1950, The Gambols cartoon
first appeared in The Daily Express.
1948, The Daily Mirror had a circulation of 4
million, up from 1.5 million in 1939.
8 February 1940, Ted Koppel, journalist, was born.
31 March 1940, Britain rationed paper supplies� to the publishing and printing industries.
1939, The Daily Telegraph became the first London paper to break tradition
and have news, rather than advertisements, on the front page. The Guardian
followed in 1952, and The Times in
1966.
1938, The Picture Post first appeared, founded by Edward Hulton. It closed in
1957.
29 July 1938. The first
edition of The Beano comic was
published.
23 May 1938, Peter Preston,
editor of The Guardian, was born.
18 April 1938, The Superman hero first appeared in print
in the US.
4 December 1937, The Dandy was first published, featuring
Desperate Dan.
1937, The Daily Telegraph
(founded 29 June 1855) amalgamated with the Morning Post.
1937, Daily newspaper sales in the UK stood at 10 million (UK
population then around 48 million).
28 June 1935. The first
Rupert Bear cartoon appeared in The Daily Express. It was drawn by Albert Bestall,
who had taken over from Rupert�s creator Mary Tourtel.
10 March 1935, The Bill
Holman comic strip Smokey Stover ran for the first time in the Chicago Tribune.
17 February 1933, Newsweek began publication.
7 January 1934, The comic
book hero Flash Gordon made his
debut in the USA.
1933, Hotspur comic for
boys was first launched. It published until the early 1980s.
1932, The Daily Worker, a�
Communist newspaper, was founded. It changed its name to Morning Star in
1966, but vreverted to The Daily Worker in 1992.
4 October 1931. The
detective cartoon strip Dick Tracy,
by Chester
Gould, first appeared in the Detroit Mirror.
25 September 1931, Barbara Walters,
journalist, was born.
1 February 1930. The Times published its first
crossword.
1929, The BBC began publishing The Listener, a weekly magazine to preserve in print the best of
its radio talks. In the 1950s The Listener had a circulation of around 150,000
but had fallen to less than 20,000 by 1990, and the last issue was published in
January 1991.
24 July 1929, Oriana Fallaci,
journalist, was born.
28 August 1929, Harold Evans, editor of The Times and Sunday Times, was born.
17 January 1929, The
cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man,
created by Elzie
Crisler Segar, first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre.
1923, In London the Radio
Times began publication. Its circulation reached 9 million by 1950.
10 June 1923. Robert Maxwell,
newspaper owner, was born in Solotvino, eastern Czechoslovakia, as Ludvick Hoch.
1922, Good Housekeeping
arrived in the UK, from the USA. Sold monthly, it was aimed at middle class
housewives. Sat the end of 1993 it had 2.2 million UK readers, down 22% from 1982
due to the arrival of many new competitor magazines.
28 December 1922, Stan Lee,
comics artist who created Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk, was born.
14 August 1922, Lord Alfred
Harmsworth, British newspaper publisher who launched the London
Evening News, Daily
Mirror, and The Times, died.
8 November 1920, Rupert
Bear first appeared in the Daily Express.
29 December 1918, In
Britain the Sunday Express newspaper was first published.
31 August 1916, Danish
news tabloid BT began publishing in Copenhagen.
1915, The Sunday Mirror
was launched.
1915, The Sunday Herald
was launched. It was later renamed The
Sunday Graphic; it closed in 1960.
1914, The Sunday Post
Special was launched in Glasgow, and renamed the Sunday Post in 1919.
1913, In Britain the New
Statesman began publication. Fpounded by Beatrice and Sidney Webb,
it was assisted by leading Fabians
such as George
Bernard Shaw.
1 June 1913, Lord William
Deedes, editor of the Daily Telegraph 1974-86, was born.
16 April 1912, The Daily Herald began publication in
London. It was produced by striking trades unionists, and became the official
paper of the TUC attaining a circulation�
of around 2 million in the 1930s. It was losing readership by the 1960s,
and was revived and rebranded as The Sun,
see 15 September 1964.
1910, The Times
Educational Supplement began publication.
1909, In Britain the Daily
Sketch started publication; it was a tabloid retailing at� � d. It merged with the Daily Mail in 1971.
25 April 1908, Edward R Murrow,
journalist, was born.
7 February 1908, In
Britain the Liberal newspaper Tribune
ceased publication.
10 February 1907, Death of
British journalist Sir William Howard Russell.
2 November 1904. The
British newspaper The Daily Mirror
was founded by Alfred
Harmsworth. Originally sold as a woman�s paper for 1d, it was
subsequently relaunched in 1915 as the Daily
Illustrated Mirror and retailed at � d.
22 February 1903, The world�s first ships newspaper was
published, on the liner Etruria.
16 November 1902, George Henty,
English war journalist, died (born 12/1832).
17 January 1902, The first
issue of The Times Literary Supplement
was published.
1901, The title The Tatler
was revived for an illustrated montly�
magazine specialising in upmarket social events, see 1709.
24 April 1900. 1st
edition of the Daily Express printed
in London. The newspaper was founded by C Arthur Pearson.
15 January 1900, George
Warrington Steevens, English journalist, died of enteric fever
during the siege of Ladysmith (born 10 December 1869)
16 October 1898, John Findlay,
Scottish newspaper owner, died (born 21 October 1824).
3 April 1898, Henry Luce,
US publisher who founded Time, Life, and Fortune
magazines, was born.
1897, Country Life Magazine
began publication; a revival of the former Racing Illustrated. Within a
few years it had begun to focus on large country houses.
17 October 1897, Charles Dana,
US journalist, died (born 8 August 1819).
6 April 1897, Walter
Winchell, journalist, was born.
4 May 1896. The Daily
Mail was first published,
founded by Lord Northcliffe. Priced at � d
(21p in 2012 prices) it was
the first mass-circulation newspaper in Britain.
1895, The Daily
Record was founded in Glasgow.
19 November 1893, The first newspaper colour supplement was produced; a 4-page section of
the New York World.
1891, The Irish Times
was established, based in Belfast. It had a circulation of over 48,000 in 1998.
8 July 1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published.
It was 4 pages long and sold for 2 cents.
16 March 1889, Samuel Hall,
English journalist, died (born 9 May 1800).
6 July 1886. Box
numbers were used in advertisements for the first time, by the Daily Telegraph.
1888, In London, the Financial
Times was founded; a rival to the Financial
News (founded 1884).� The two papers
later amalgamated in 1945. The Financial Times adopted its distinctive pink
paper in 1893
20 October 1887, John Reed,
journalist, was born.
22 February 1886, The Times became the first newspaper to
have a �personal� column on its classified page.
1885, The Catholic Herald
began publication, as the Glasgow Observer. It took its present name when it
moved to London in 1888.
1884, The first newspaper in London devoted entirely to financial
ands commercial affairs, the Financial
and Mining News, appeared. It was later renamed the Financial News.
20 December 1881, Eustace Murray,
English journalist, died.
25 October 1881, The Evening Illustrated Newspaper began
publishing in Britain; it was the first regularly illustrated newspaper. Later
renamed the Evening News, it ceased
publication in 1980.
16 October 1881, The
British Sunday newspaper, The People, began publication. It
was later taken over by The Mirror Group.
29 April 1881, Edward Miall,
English Nonconformist journalist, died (born 8 May 1809).
1 February 1880, The first
edition of the theatrical newspaper The
Stage was published.
22 November 1879, John Delane,
editor of The Times, London, died (born 11 October 1817).
27 October 1879, The
Liverpool
Echo printed its first copy.
18 January 1879. The first
issue of Boys Own was published by O S Beaton,
husband of the famous cook book writer. Published until 1967, the journal was backed by the Religious
Tract Society.
12 June 1876, Alfred Bate
Richards, English journalist, died (born 17 February 1820 in
Worcestershire)
1870, The Belfast Telegraph
began publication.
1870, The Northern Echo,
based in Darlington, began publication
23 May 1870, Mark Lemon,
editor of Punch magazine, died (born 30 November 1809).
2 February 1870. The press
agencies Reuters, Havas, and Wolff signed an agreement whereby they could cover the world�s news
between them.
1869, The science journal Nature
was first published.
11 July 1869, William Jerdan,
Scottish journalist, died (born 16 April 1782).
1868, The Manchester
Evening news began publication.
1868, The Western Daily
Mail, a newspaper serving Wales, was established in Cardiff. In 1989 the Wales on Sunday newspaper was founded.
In 1997 these papers had a circulation of 60,000 and 57,000 respectively.
10 July 1867, Finley Dunne,
US journalist, was born.
7 February 1865, The first
issue of the Pall Mall Gazette.
1860, The Universe,
Roman Catholic newspaper, was founded in Manchester.
11 June 1860, The Evening Standard newspaper was first
published, in London
1859, Sporting Life
began publication. Since 1989 it has had a separate pull-out, The Greyhound Life.
5 June 1859, Gamaliel Bailey,
US journalist, died (born in New Jersey 3 December 1807).
1858, The Western Daily
Press was established in Bristol.
22 April 1858, Robert Stephen
Rintoul, British journalist who founded The Spectator, died (born
1787 in Perthshire)
1857, The Birmingham Post
began publication.
23 November 1857, George Smythe,
English journalist, died.
30 June 1855, In
Britain, the Newspaper Stamp Duty
was abolished.
29 June 1855, The Daily Telegraph was first
published, in London. It cost 1d.� The
first editor was Alfred Bate Richards. See 1937, 1939.
24 September 1853. Britain�s first provincial newspaper,
the Northern Daily Times, was founded in Liverpool.
4 August 1853, Newspaper advertisements duty was abolished in
Britain.
1851, Reuters News Agency was founded by a German born immigrant to
London, Paul Julius Reuter (1816-99)
5 July 1849, William Thomas Stead, English journalist, was born in Embleton,
Northumberland.
28 July 1847, John Walter, who helped to found The Times of London, died (born 23 February 1776)
21 January 1846, The Daily News, the newspaper edited by
Charles
Dickens, was first published in London.
28 August 1845, The Scientific American was first published
at New York.
1844, A process for producing woodpulp developed by German
engineer Gottlob
Keller, aged 38, now made the cost of producing newspapers
considerably cheaper, facilitating the development of mass media.
13 September 1844, Edmund
O�Donovan, British war journalist, was born in Dublin (died 1883 in
the Egyptian Sudan).
1843, The Economist
was first published, headed by London economist James Wilson, aged 38.
1 October 1843, The Sunday newspaper, News
of the World, was first published. A reductiuon in the Newspaper Tax meant it could be priced at 1d.
14 May 1842, The Illustrated
London News was first published. It was founded by Herbert Ingram
(1811-60), a printer, and it heralded the era of illustrated journalism.
1841,
The Jewish Chronicle began
publication in London. It was founded by Isaac Valentine (1793-1868).
17 July 1841, The first issue of the satirical magazine Punch was published in London.
7 May 1841, Thomas Barnes,
English journalist, died.
1840, The Tablet,
British Roman Catholic weekly newspaper, was launched.
1836, In Britain, Stamp
Duty on newspapers was reduced from 4d to 1d (from �1.30 to 32p in 2012 prices), making them more accessible to less well off
people.
1832, The Newcastle Weekly
Journal began publication. It became a daily in 1860, and changed its name
to The Journal in 1958.
24 November 1828, George Augustus
Henry Sala, English journalist, was born in London (died 8 December
1895 in Brighton)
1827, The Freeman�s
Journal began publication in New York; the first newspaper aimed at
Black people. Whereas the rest of the press favoured slavery,
this publication campaigned for it to end, and urged free Black people to get
education and practice thrift. It was begun by Samuel E Cornish, a clergyman
who founded New York�s first Black Presbyterian Church, and by Jamaica-born
college graduate John B Russworm. Russworm later moved to Liberia where he
edited the Liberia Herald in
Monrovia, as well as serving as Liberia�s Superintendent of Education.
1827, The Evening Standard
began publishing, as The Standard.
8 November 1827, The first English language newspaper in the Far
East, the Canton Register began publication in Guangzhou.
9 February 1826, Samuel Bowles,
journalist, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (died in Springfield 16
January 1878).
28 December 1825, Henri Blowitz,
journalist, was born in Bohemia (died 18 January 1003).
20 October 1822. The Sunday Times was first published.
1821, The Manchester Guardian, later The Guardian from 1959, was published, inoitially weekly. It became daily from 1855.
Renamed The Guardian in 1960, it moved
head office to London in 1964.
28 March 1821, William Clark Russell, British war journalist, was born near Dublin
(died 11 February 1907)
17 December 1820, John Bull, the magazine �for God, The King, and
The People� went on sale with 750 copies printed. After 6 weeks,
circulation rose to 10,000.
17 February 1820, Alfred Bate
Richards, English journalist, was born in Worcestershire (died 12
June 1876)
8 August 1819, Charles Dana,
US journalist, was born (died 17 October 1897).
1817, The Scotsman was
founded in Edinburgh. In 1865 it started using the railways to achieve a
distribution throughout Scotland, and in 1868 became the first non-London
newspaper to open an office on Fleet Street. In 1988 it launched the Scotsman on Sunday.
11 October 1817, John Delane,
editor of The Times, London, was born (died 22 November 1879).
1816, The Courrier was
founded, originally known as the Dundee
Courier and Argus.
1 January 1814, The first
Welsh-language newspaper, the Seren
Gomer, was published.
18 February 1810, Sir Charles
Dilke, editor of The Atheneaum literary magazine, was born (died 10
May 1869).
30 November 1809, Mark Lemon,
editor of Punch magazine, was born (died 23 May 1870).
8 May 1809, Edward Miall,
English Nonconformist journalist, was born (died 29 April 1881).
5 August 1803, The Ayr Advertiser was first published; the
first newspaper in Ayrshire, Scotland.
4 December 1791. The Observer,
the oldest Sunday newspaper in the UK,
was first published.
3 May 1788. The first evening newspaper, the Star and Evening Advertiser, was
published in London.
1 January 1788, The Universal Daily Register was renamed The Times.
1 January 1785. The Daily Universal Register was first
published by John Walter. It was renamed The Times on 1 January �1788.
1783, The Herald, a
daily newspaper covering Scotland, was established in Glasgow. In 1998 it had a
circulation of 100,000. It was originally known as the Glasgow Advertiser, then
the Glasgow Herald.
16 April 1782, William
Jerdan,Scottish journalist, was born (died 11 July 1869).
26 March 1780. The first
Sunday newspaper in Britain was published; the British Gazette and Sunday Monitor.
23 February 1776, John
Walter, who helped to found The Times of London, was born� (died 28 July 1847)
1754,
The Yorkshire Post was founded, as
the Leeds Intelligencer. It was
renamed The Yorkshire Post in 1866.
1748, The first issue of the newspaper Aberdeen�s Journal appeared. In 1892 it merged with the Aberdeen Free Press, and became the Press and Journal.
1737, The Belfast News
Letter started publication. |It is the UK�s oldest surviving newspaper.
17 June 1719, Joseph Addison
died. A Whig essayist and poet, he had been co-founder of The Spectator.
1712, In Britain, Stamp
Duty was imposed on newspapers, increasing their price.
1 March 1711. The Spectator was first published. It was founded by Joseph Addison
(1672-1719). It cerased publication in 1714 but the title was revived in 1828
and has been published weekly ever since.
1709, The Tatler was
first published, as a thrice-weekly newsletter magazine to appeal to gentlemen
in coffee houses. It was replaced in 1711 by The Spectator, and the title was revived in 1901.
11 March 1702, E Mallet published The
Daily Courant, the first
successful daily newspaper in Britain. It was printed as a single sheet. By
1799 London had 21 daily newspapers
1701, The first regional English
newspaper, outside London was published, the Norwich Post.
1699, The Edinburgh Gazette, a twice-weekly publication, was founded.
23 June 1696, The first
evening newspaper, Dawks�s News-Letter, began publishing in London.
1665, The London Gazette, a bulletin for Government official announcements,
was founded, then called the Oxford Gazette.
23 November 1646, The first advertisement in in English-language newspaper.
It was in Samuel Pecke�s Perfect Diurnall, for books.
29 November 1641, The first English
newspaper was published.
2 August 1622, Journalists William Sheffatrd and Nathaniel Butter began
publishing Newes from Most Parts of
Christendom, the first regular newspaper in English.
2 December 1620, The first English-language newspaper was
printed. Produced in Amsterdam, it consisted of a single sheet, 6 by 12
inches, printed both sides, reporting on foreign news only. When imported into
Britain it was condemned� by King James
I.
1590, The first regular newspaper, the Mercurius Gallobelgicus, began publishing in London; carrying news from continental
Europe.
13 August 1422, William Caxton,
England�s first printer, was born.
Argentina
18 October 1868, La Prensa, which was to become the
highest-circulation newspaper in South America, began publication in Buenos
Aires.
1861, The Buenos Aires
Standard, the first English-language daily newspaper in Sout America, was
founded by Irish-born economist Michael George Mulhall (1836-1900).
Newspapers - Australia
12 December 1995, Andrew Ollie,
Australian journalist, died.
5 October 1990, After 150
years, The Herald newspaper in
Australia ceased publication in Melbourne, Australia.
11 March 1931. Birth of
Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
12 August 1886, Sir Keith
Murdoch, newspaper owner, was born.
Newspapers � Belgium
1944, La Lanterne
newspaper was founded in Brussels.
10 January 1929, Tin Tin
first appeared in Le Vingtieme Siecle,
Belgium.
1887, Le Soir
newspaper was founded in Brussels.
1884, Le Libre
newspaper was founded in Brussels.
Newspapers - Canada
25 May 1879, The
newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada as William Maxwell
Aitken.
23 March 1752, Canada�s first
newspaper, the Halifax Gazette,
went on sale.
Newspapers - China
748, The first daily printed newspaper appeared in Beijing, China.
Newspapers - Colombia
24 October 1960, Jaime
Garzon, Colombian journalist, was born.
Newspapers �Czechia
18 January 1903, Henri Blowitz,
journalist, died (born in Bohemia 28 December 1825).
Newspapers - Denmark
30 September 2005, A Danish
newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published controversial cartoons of the
prophet Mohammed.
1916, The B.T. newspaper was founded in Copenhagen.
1884, The Politiken newspaper was founded in Copenhagen.
1749, The Berlingske
Tiudende newspaper was founded in Copenhagen
Newspapers � Egypt
1944, The Al-Akhbar
newspaper was founded.
Newspapers� -France
1954, Marie Claire, women;�s magazine, was founded.
19 December 1944, The French newspaper Le
Monde began publication in Paris.
14 August 1918, Andre Arnaud, French journalist, was born
1904, L�Humanite newspaper was founded in Paris.
14 December 1892, John Lemoinne,
French journalist, died.
31 January 1880, Bernard
Cassagnac, French journalist, died (born 11 August 1806)
20 June 1871, Auguste Jean
Marie Vermorel, French journalist, died (born 21 June 1841)
9 August 1861, Louis
Cauchois-Lemaire, French journalist, died (born 28 August 1789)
26 August 1843, The
newspaper La Reforme started
publication in Paris.
21 June 1841, Auguste Jean
Marie Vermorel, French journalist, was born (died 20 June 1871)
1828, Le Figaro newspaper was founded in Paris.
2 October 1809, Louis
Delescluze, French journalist, was born (died 1871).
11 August 1806, Bernard
Cassagnac, French journalist, was born (died 31 January 1880).
5 January 1665, Journal des Scavans, the world�s first
scientific journal, was founded in Paris.
Newspapers� -Germany
1956, The Bild Am Sonntag
newspaper was founded in Hamburg
1947, In Germany, Der Speigel, a news magazine, began publication.
1945, The Tagesspeil newspaper was founded in Berlin.
1945, The Tagliche Rundschau newspaper was founded in Berlin.
1945,�
Die Welt newspaper was
founded in Hamburg.
1945, The Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper was founded in Munich.
1945, Die Neue Zeitung newspaper was founded in Munich.
3 August 1922, Minna Cauer, 80, German journalist, educator
and activist, died aged 80
25 February 1899, Paul Julius
Reuter, German founder of Reuters
news agency, died.
3 February 1868, Karl Mathy,
Baden statesman who worked for German unity, and who helped found the newspaper
Deutsche Zeitung, which promoted the
unification of the German states, died (born 17 March 1807).
21 July 1816, Paul von Reuter,
German
founder of Reuters News Agency, was
born in Kassel as Israel Beer Josaphat.
17 March 1807, Karl Mathy,
Baden statesman who worked for German unity, and who helpo found the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung, which promoted the
unification of the German states, was born (died 3 February 1868).
1778,
The German newspaper, Allgemeine Zeiting began publishing.
Newspapers � Greece
1980, The Avriani
newspaper was founded.
1952, The Apogevmatini
newspaper was founded.
1891, The Ethnos
newspaper was founde din Athens
Newspapers � Iceland
1913, Morgunblad
newspaper was founded in Reykavik.
Newspapers - India
1933, The weekly publication Harijan was founded by Mahatma Gandhi.
25 July 1832, Kursendas Mulji,
Indian journalist, was born.
Newspapers � Irish Republic
26 June 1996, Veronica Guerin,
Irish journalist, died.
1973, The Sunday World
newspaper was founded in Dublin.
1954, The Evening Press
newspaper was founded in Dublin.
1949, The Sunday Press
newspaper was founded in Dublin.
1905, The Sunday Indpendent
newspaper was founded in Dublin.
1905, The Irish Independent
newspaper was founded in Dublin.
1891, The Evening Herald
was founded in Dublin.
1859, The Irish Times
newspaper was founded in Dublin.
Newspapers � Italy
1976, La Repubblica
newspaper was founded in Rome.
1878, Il Messagero
newspaper was founded in Rome.
1876, The first national Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, was established in Milan. However even in the
1960s, just 40% of Italians read a daily newspaper.
1867, La Stampa
newspaper was founded in Turin.
59 BC, In Rome the Acta
Diurna was posted daily in public spaces.
Newspapers � Netherlands
1893, De Telegraaf
newspaper was founded in Amsterdam.
Newspapers � The Philippines
2 February 1900, The Manila Bulletin, published its
first issue. Starting as a publisher of information about shipping, the
broadsheet became the largest circulation newspaper in the country.
Newspapers � Portugal
1942, the Diario Popular
was established in Lisbon.
Newspapers - Russia
10 July 1925, The TASS news agency was founded in Russia.
1922, Krokodil, a
political satire magazine, began publication in Moscow.
1917, Izvestia
newspaper was founded in Petrograd.
22 April 1913, The first
issue of Pravda (Truth) appeared in Moscow.
1912, Pravda newspaper
was founded in Moscow.
Newspapers - South Africa
18 December 1914, A meeting
was held in Stellenbosch, South Africa to discuss the creation of a national
newspaper for the country.
Newspapers � Spain
1976, El Pais
newspaper was founded iu Madrid.
1935, Ya newspaper was
founded in Madrid.
1905, The ABC
newspaper was founded.
1881, La Vanguardia
newspaper was founded in Barcelona.
Newspapers � Sweden
1884, The Svenska
Dagbladet was founded in Stockholm.
Newspapers � Switzerland
1789, Neue Zurcher Zeitung
newspaper was founded in Zurich.
Newspapers � Vatican
1929, L�Osservatore Romano
newspaper was founded.
Newspapers �USA,
9 November 2006, Ed Bradley,
US journalist, died (born 22 June 1941)
15 May 2006, George Crile,
US journalist, died (born 5 March 1945)
3 August 2005, Steven Vincent,
US journalist, died.
30 March 2004, Alistair Cooke,
US journalist, died aged 95.
22 June 2002, Ann Landers,
US columnist, died.
23 January 2002, US newspaper
reporter Daniel
Pearl was kidnapped, and later murdered, in Karachi, Pakistan.
16 July 1999, John F Kennedy
Jr., journalist and magazine publisher, died.
29 November 1972, Life magazine ceased publication (see 23
November 1936) but was revived in 10/1978.
30 October 1968, Rose Wilder
Lane, US journalist, died.
3/1965, Penthouse Magazine began publication in
New York, by publisher Robert Guccione, aged 38. The magazine grew to
overtake Hugh
Heffner�s Playboy in
sales in 1975.
4 March 1957, Jim Dwyer, American journalist was born in New
York (died 2020)
3 April 1953, US magazine "TV Guide" publishes its first issue.
The cover featured photo of Lucille Ball's new born baby boy, Desiderio Alberto
Arnaz IV (later professionally known as Desi Arnaz Jr.)
14 August 1951, Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate, died in
California.
19 September 1942, Conde Nast, US magazine publisher, died.
1941, The Chicago Sun newspaper was founded.
23 November 1936, The first
edition of Life magazine appeared.
See 29 November 1972.
4 October 1931. The
detective cartoon strip Dick Tracy,
by Chester
Gould, first appeared in the Detroit
Mirror.
31 March 1925, The Philadelphia Daily News began publication.
21 February 1925, The New Yorker was first published, founded
by Harold
Ross.
1923, Time Magazine
was launched by Henry
A Luce and Briton Hadden.
5 February 1922. The Readers
Digest was first published, in the USA.
26 June 1919, The New York Daily News
began publication.
1914, The New Republic newspaper was founded by HD Croly.
29 October 1911. Joseph Pulitzer,
US newspaper publisher who instituted an annual journalism prize, died.
11 July 1910, Henry Dexter,
founder of American News Company, died.
19 January 1908, Charles Emory
Smith, US journalist, died in Philadelphia (born 18 February 1842 in
Connecticut)
24 December 1907, IF Stone,
US journalist was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1989)
1904, The Boston American
newspqaper was founded.
1904, US newspaper advertising revenue was rising rapidly,
reaching 40 million US$ this year.
15 August 1903, Joseph
Pulitzer gave US$ 2 million to Columbia University to start a school
of journalism.
12 November 1900, Henry
Villard, US journalist, died (born 10 April 1835 in Bavaria)
1889, The Wall Street Journal was founded in New York.
10/1888, The National
Geographic began publication at Washington DC. Its first colour pictures
appeared in 1906, and in 1910 at adopted its characteristic yellow and white
cover.
27 July 1883, Francis Blair,
US journalist, died in Silver Spring, Maryland (born in Abingdon, Virginia 12
April 1791).
4 March 1880, The New York Daily Graphic became the first
newspaper to incorporate a photographic reproduction.
6 December 1877, The Washington Post Newspaper was founded,
and ran a campaign against newly-elected US President Rutherford Hayes as being
fraudulently elected.
16 January 1878, Samuel Bowles,
journalist, died in Springfield (born in Springfield, Massachusetts 9 February 1826).
25 December 1875, The Chicago Daily News began publication.
It was priced at 1 cent, whereas other newspapers cost 5 cents.
4 March 1873, The New York
Daily Graphic became the world�s first illustrated daily newspaper.
1 June 1872, James Bennett,
US journalist, died in New York.
4 March 1872, The Boston Daily Globe began publication in
the USA.
4 November 1869, The
weekly scientific journal Nature
began publication.
18 June 1869, Henry Jarvis
Raymond, US journalist, died in New York City (born 24 January 1820
in New York State)
1860, The New York World
newspaper was founded.
18 September 1851, The New
York Times was first published.� It
was founded by Henry Jarvis
Raymond.
10 June 1847, The Chicago
Tribune began publication, as the Chicago
Daily Tribune.
10 April 1847, Joseph Pulitzer,
newspaper proprietor who founded the Pulitzer
Prize for achievements in journalism or literature, was born.
18 February 1846, The Pittsburgh Disptach was first
published.
1842, The Plain Dealer
newspaper was founded in Chicago.
18 September 1842, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
was first published.
18 February 1842, Charles
Emory Smith, US journalist, was born in Connecticut (died 19 January
1908 in Philadelphia)
10 April 1841, The New York Tribune was
first published.
17 May 1837, The Baltimore Sun began publication.� Founded by Arunah S Abell, it sold at 1
cent.
6 May 1835, The New York Herald newspaper began
publication.
10 April 1835, Henry Villard,
US journalist, was born in Bavaria (died 12 November 1900)
1 September 1833, The New
York Sun newspaper was launched. It was cheaply priced at 1 cent,
and was full of human interest stories, aimed for a mass market. Editors of
more serious papers were sceptical about its survival. On 25 August 1835 this
newspaper claimed that vegetation grew on the moon, and had widespread sales.
1831, The Liberator,
an influential anti-slavery weekly newspaper, was founded in
Boston, Massachusetts, by Abolitionist campaigner William Lloyd Garrison. It ran
until 1865.
27 February 1828, Edward Albert
Pollard, US journalist, was born (died 1872)
16 March 1827, In the
USA, the first Afro-American newspaper,
the Freemen�s Journal, was first
published in New York by the Reverend Samuel Cornish.
24 January 1820, Henry Jarvis
Raymond, US journalist, was born in New York State (died 18 June
1869 in New York City)
25 November 1817, John Bigelow,
US journalist, was born in New York State.
3 December 1807, Gamaliel Bailey,
US journalist, was born in New Jersey (died 5 June 1859).
16 November 1801, The New York Evening Post began publication,
directed by politicians John Jat and Alexander Hamilton.
12 April 1791, Francis Blair,
US journalist, was born in Abingdon, Virginia (died in Silver Spring, Maryland,
27 July 1883).
21 September 1784. The first successful daily American
newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet
and Daily Advertiser, appeared.
30 May 1783, The first daily
newspaper in the newly independent USA, the Pennsylvania
Evening Post, began publication.
9 May 1754, The first
US newspaper cartoon appeared, in Benjamin Franklin�s Pennsylvania Gazette.
16 February 1741, Benjamin
Franklin, USA, began publication of his General Magazine.
24 April 1704, The first regular newspaper in British North America, the Boston News Letter,
was published.