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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