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100
Dead Sea Scrolls witten in Aramaic/Hebrew script
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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
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476
Death of Romulus Augustulus; fall of Rome
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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1500
Middle Ages; "Dark Ages"
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Jan 1, 712
Earliest work of Japanese literature, Kojiki
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Jan 1, 770
Earliest well-defined block print extant, Japan
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Sep 1, 1350
Wycliffe translates the Bible into English
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Sep 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg develops printing press process, Mainz, Germany
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Sep 30, 1452
Johann Guttenberg's Bible becomes first book published in volume
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Jan 1, 1476
William Caxton opens London print shop
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Sep 1, 1529
English king becomes the undisputed head of the Church of England under Henry VIII
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Jan 1, 1560
Diego de Landa records Mayan "alphabet" in Yucatan
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English settlers establish the Jamestown colony, Virginia
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Puritans establish the Plymouth colony, Massachusetts
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George Veseler and Broer Jonson print corrantos in Amsterdam
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Under Charles I England extends licensing to all printed material
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Josh Milton publishes argument against censorship "Areopagitica"
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Thomas Hobbes publishes "Leviathan" arguing for a commonwealth
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Locke publishes the "Treatises on Government"
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First ad in colonial newspaper, the Boston News-Letter
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Cato's letters
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Benjamin Franklin, "Father of American Advertising" purchases the Pennslyvania Gazette
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Benjamin Franklin prints first ad in a magazine
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First Amendment to the US Constitution ratified
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Rosetta stone discovered in Egypt
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P.T. Barnum regarded as "father of press agentry"
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Samuel F.B. Morse develops electromagnetic telegraph
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James Gordon Bennett's Herald publishes display ads
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Telegraph line between D.C. and Baltimore opens
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Transcontintental telegraph line replaces the Pony Express
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Maxwell theorizes the existence of electromagnetic waves
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Completion of first transatlantic telegraph
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Edison invents electric light
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Alexander Graham Bell files patent for the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
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Thomas Edison invents electric lightbulb
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Heinreich Hertz transmits and receives radio waves
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Edison's Kinetoscope
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Nikola Tesla invents Tesla coil
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Guglielmo Marconi initiates experiments with wireless telegraphy
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Emile Berliner’s flat disc Gramophone appeared
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Using Cinematopgraphe Lumiere brothers show the first film on a large screen
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Marconi takes out first wireless telegraphy patent in England
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Reginald A. Fessenden broadcasts voice by radio wave
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Nathan B. Stubbledfield sends first marine broadcast
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First American feature film, The Great Train Robbery
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Albert Lasker, "father of modern advertising" becomes partner at Lord & Thomas
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Lee De Forest files patent for Audion
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Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
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Pure Food and Drug Act passes
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Reginald Fessenden transmits first radio broadcast for entertainment and music
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Charles Herrold begins radio broadcasting in San Jose
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Wireless ship act requires most ocean-going US passenger ships to have wireless
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Titanic sinks
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Congress enacts Radio Act of 1912
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Federal Trade Commission created
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Ivy Lee hired to remake John D. Rockefeller’s image
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Griffith's Birth of a Nation
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Sarnoff's "Radio Music Box Memo" appears
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Motion Pictures Patent Co. declared illegal
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US enters World War 1; government nationalizes all radio communication and patents
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Owen D Young, general counsel of GE, sets up RCA
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Edward Bernays publishes Crystallizing Public Opinion
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The Walt Disney Company founded
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The Eveready Hour first airs
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AT&T, Warner Bros. patent system for synchronizing sound for film using recorded discs
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David Sarnoff founds the National Broadcasting Company
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Radio Act of 1927 passes
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Philo Farnsworth transmits first televison image
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Period: to
Radio's Golden Age
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Hays Code adopted
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FDR airs first Fireside Chat
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Congress establishes Federal Communications Commission, replacing Federal Radio Commission
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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
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Orson Welles broadcasts "War of the Worlds"
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RCA introduces television at the New York World’s Fair
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Gone with the Wind premieres
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Roosevelt establishes the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Advertising Council, and the Office of Censorship
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Radio broadcast covers D-day invasion
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V-E Day
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Boston University establishes first academic program in public relations
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US vs. Paramount forces studios to divest their interests in theaters
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Harold Burson co-founds Burson-Marsteller, today's largest PR agency
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Freedom of Information Act takes effect
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Rolling Stone Magazine publishes first issue
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Ray Tomlinson sends first internet based email
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Horace Newcomb publishes book "TV: The Most Popular Art"
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MTV launches
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CDs appear on the market
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Apple's "1984" commercial airs during Super Bowl
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Studio Ghibli founded
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Microsoft launches first retail version of Windows
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Got Milk? ad campaign starts
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Google founded
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craiglist incorporated as a for-profit organization
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MySpace founded
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Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins 11 Oscars
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YouTube founded
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Last episode of Arrested Development airs
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Twitter founded
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All full-power analog TV broadcasts end in US
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Final installment in Harry Potter film seires released
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Steve Jobs dies
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Michele Smith becomes first female analyst for a national baseball broadcast
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Last inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Cyrillic alphabet invented in Russia
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Earliest printed book, China
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Period: to
T'ang Dynasty in China