From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Publishing Outline

Acta Diurna: the First Daily Gazette
(Circa 131 BCE)

The Book Trade in Cicero's Rome
(Circa 70 BCE)

The First Mention of Literary Works Published in Parchment Codices
(84 CE – 86 CE)

During the Middle Ages Book Production is Concentrated in Monasteries
(Circa 610 – 1200)

One of the Earliest Newspapers, Written on Silk
(713 – 734)

5,048 Printed Volumes Containing 130,000 Pages
(972 – 983)

The Earliest Universal Bibliography
(988 – 990)

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Horticulture
(Circa 1304 – 1309)

Renaissance Humanists Hunt for the Manuscripts of Roman Authors
(Circa 1325 – 1450)

Serial Workshop Production of Medieval Manuscripts
(Circa 1420 – 1470)

The First Bible Concordance in Hebrew
(1448)

The First Printed Newsletters
(Circa 1450)

The Mainz Psalter. . . .without "Any Driving of the Pen"
(August 14, 1457)

The First Book Set in Fere-Humanistica or Gotico-Antiqua Types
(October 6, 1459)

The First Book Printed in Italy, the First Book Printed in Roman Type, & the First Edition of a "Classical" Text
(September 1465)

The Value and Difficulty of Preparing an Accurate Manuscript for Printing
(1466)

The First Edition of the Bible in a Modern Language
(June 1466)

The First Printed Encyclopedia
(1467)

Possibly the Earliest Printed Book for which the Printer's Manuscript Remains Extant
(June 12, 1467)

The Earliest Illustrated Printed Book Published in Italy
(December 31, 1467)

Printing Decreased the Costs of Books by 80%
(1468)

The First Printed Editions of Virgil
(1469 – 1470)

The Earliest Surviving Book List Issued by a Printer
(June 1469 – September 1470)

The Beginning of Printing in Venice
(September 1469)

The First Printed Edition of the Confessions of St. Augustine
(1470)

The First Printing Press in France
(1470)

The First Call for Press Censorship
(1471)

The First Medical or Scientific Treatise to be First Published as a Printed Book Rather than a Manuscript
(April 21, 1472)

The First Book Printed in English
(1473 – 1474)

Probably the First Printed Law Book
(January 26, 1475)

The First "Modern" Title Page
(1476)

The First Book Printed in French
(April 18, 1476)

The First Dated Book Printed in England
(November 18, 1477)

A Typical Print Run
(1480)

The Most Famous Textbook Ever Published
(May 25, 1482)

The Earliest Medical Work Printed in English
(Circa 1483)

The First Printed Haggadah
(1486)

The First Illustrated Travel Book: An International Bestseller
(February 11, 1486)

The Earliest Known Type Specimen
(April 1, 1486)

The First Known Author's Copyright
(September 1, 1486 – May 21, 1487)

Handbook for Witch-Hunters and Inquisitors
(April 1487)

The First Complete Printed Hebrew Bible
(April 22, 1488)

The First Eyewitness Report to Become a Bestseller
(February 15, 1493)

The Nuremberg Chronicle
(July 12 – December 1493)

The "Book Fool"
(February 11, 1494)

The First English Book Printed on Paper Made in England
(1495 – 1496)

The Aldine Theocritus: Scholarly Compromises in Running a Publishing House
(February 1495 – 1496)

Early Printing in Hebrew
(1500)

Aldus's "Rules of the Modern Academy" Known From a Single Surviving Copy
(Circa 1500)

The Transition from Latin to the Vernacular in the 16th Century
(Circa 1500 – 1600)

Printing Presses are Established in 282 Cities
(December 1500)

The First Book of Music Printed from Moveable Type
(1501)

First Book Completely Printed in Italic Type and the First of Aldus's Pocket Editions of the Classics
(April 1501)

The First English Book on Preparing and Carving Meat, Game and Fish
(1508)

The First Illustrated Edition of Vitruvius
(May 22, 1511)

The Earliest English Newsbook
(September 1513)

The First Documented Legal Case Concerning Copyright
(1517)

Launching the Protestant Reformation
(October 31, 1517)

The First Printed Edition of the Complete Babylonian Talmud
(1519 – 1523)

The Manifesto of the Reformation
(August 1520)

Interpreting Roman Architecture in the Language of the Renaissance
(July 15, 1521)

Pre-Publication Censorship in England
(November 16, 1538)

The First Publisher's Catalogue in Book Form
(1542)

First Printed Edition of the Latin Translation of the Qur'an
(1542 – 1543)

Unprecedented Blending of Scientific Exposition, Art and Typography
(June 1543)

A Condensation or Road-Map to the Fabrica
(June 1543)

The First Treatise on Mathematics Published in the Western Hemisphere and the First Textbook on Any Subject Besides Religion Printed Outside of Europe
(1556)

Classic of Mannerist Book Illustration and Printing
(June 28, 1560)

The First Bio-Bibliography
(1562)

The First Catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair
(1564)

The First European Newspaper
(1605)

The First Editor's and Printer's Manual
(1608)

First Publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets
(May 20, 1609)

The First Private Newspaper Published in English
(1621)

Literary and Medical Classic on One of the Most Common Human Ailments
(1621)

Forerunner of the English Newspaper
(May 23, 1622)

The First Regularly Printed English Newspaper
(1624)

Discovery and Experimental Proof of the Circulation of the Blood
(1628)

The First Weekly Magazine in France
(May 30, 1631)

Precursor of the Royal Society
(August 23, 1633 – June 10, 1641)

Abolition of the Star Chamber Stimulates Publishing
(1641)

The British Government Attempts to Re-Establish Censorship
(June 16, 1643)

"For Books are Not Absolutely Dead Things; but Doe Contain a Potencie of Life . . . ."
(1644)

The Earliest Bibliography of Bibliographies
(1664)

The First Scientific Journal
(January 5, 1665)

The Oldest Continuous Journal of an Academy of Science
(March 6, 1665)

The First Scientific Book Written by a Native Latin American to be Published in the Western Hemisphere
(1681)

First Comprehensive Printing Manual
(1683 – 1684)

The First Newspaper Published in North America
(1690)

The End of Pre-Publication Censorship Stimulates Newspapers and Other Publishing
(1695)

Baroque Anatomy and Plagiarism
(1698)

England's First Daily Newspaper
(March 11, 1702)

The First Successful Newspaper in North America
(April 24, 1704)

Famous Proofreaders and Press Correctors
(1716)

To Protect the More than 4000 Manuscript Copyists of Constantinople
(1727)

The First Natural History of North American Flora and Fauna
(1729 – 1747)

The First Periodical to Use the Word "Magazine"
(January 1731)

The First Periodical Published in English on Rare Books & Manuscripts
(1738)

The First Magazine Published in North America
(January 1741)

The First Periodical Written for Women by a Woman
(April 1744 – May 1746)

The Central Enterprise of the French Enlightenment
(1751 – 1780)

Encyclopaedia Britannica Begins
(December 1768 – 1771)

Probably the Most Ambitious Editorial Enterprise before the Wikipedia
(1773 – 1782)

The First Chemistry Journal
(1778)

Operations of a French Enlightenment Printing Shop Depicted
(Circa 1782)

Prospectus for a Monumental European Encyclopedia
(1782)

166.5 Volumes of Text but No Comprehensive Index!
(1782 – 1832)

Ancestor of "The Times"
(1785)

The First Historical Society in the United States
(January 24, 1791)

Phasing Out Latin as the International Language
(1800)

The Prince of Mathematicians
(1801)

The First World Atlas Printed by Muslims
(April 1803 – March 1804)

The First Edition Bindings of Cloth-Backed Paper Boards
(1810 – 1820)

The First Cloth Edition Bindings
(Circa 1821)

The First Indigenous Arabic Press in Egypt
(1822)

A Press in Malta to Print Books in Arabic & Turkish
(1825)

Roughly 600 Books Year are Produced in the U.K.
(Circa 1825)

The Braille System of Printing and Reading for the Blind
(1829)

Case Bindings which Allow Mechanized Stamping
(Circa 1830)

The First Press to Operate in Palestine since about 1577
(1832)

The Greatest Private Collector of Manuscripts
(1837 – 1871)

The First Illustrated News Publication
(May 12, 1842)

The Railroad also Becomes an Information Distribution Network
(1848)

The New York Times Begins Publication
(September 18, 1851)

One of the Major Publishing Successes of the 19th Century
(1859 – October 1861)

On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection
(November 24, 1859)

The Largest Dictionary in Book Form
(1863)

The First Printer Authorized to the Print the Qur'an in Constantinople
(1866)

The First Significant Series of Illustrations in Daily Newspaper
(June 30, 1875)

3,500,000 Quotations on Individual Slips of Paper
(1882)

The O E D Finally Begins Publication
(February 1, 1884)

Linotype Invented
(1886 – 1887)

The Berne Convention
(September 9, 1886)

Imaginary Historical Biographies
(1887 – 1889)

Northcliff Founds the Daily Mail; Circulation Soon Reaches 1,000,000
(1896)

The Last Great Original Work in Science to be Published First as a Monograph Rather than in a Scientific Journal
(November 4, 1899)

The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
(1901)

The Photomicrographic Book
(1907)

Curtis's The North American Indian
(1907 – 1930)

8468 New Books are Published in the U.K.
(1910)

Principia Mathematica
(1910 – 1913)

Auditing Circulation
(1914)

A Massive Central Library on Microform for Printing on Demand
(1925)

The First Television Journal
(March 1928)

Predictor of the Electronic Book
(1930)

The First "Talking-Books"
(1931)

Penguin Books
(1935)

The First Computing Journal
(1943)

The First Treatise on Software for an Operational Stored-Program Computer
(1950)

11,638 New Books Are Published in the U.K.
(1950)

After 1954 More News Was Distributed Electronically than on Paper
(1950)

The First Journal on Electronic Computing
(October 1952)

The First Journal on Computing Changes its Name
(1960)

Printing and the Mind of Man
(July 16 – July 27, 1963)

First Computerized Encyclopedia
(1964)

Science Citation Index
(1964)

720 Million Printed Copies in Under Four Years
(May 1964)

Probably the Largest Printed Bibliography, Complete in 754 Folio Volumes
(1968 – 1981)

32,393 New Books Are Published in the U.K.
(1969)

The First Dictionary Based on Corpus Linguistics
(1969)

Books on Tape
(1970)

First Electronic Pagination System, Forerunner of Email and Instant Messaging
(1973)

Byte Magazine
(1975)

The First American Bookseller to Discount Books
(1975)

The First Journal on Software for Personal Computers
(January 1976)

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
(1979)

Nexis
(1980)

The First Magazine on Computer Games
(1981)

Foundation of Adobe Systems
(December 1982)

Keyboarding over 350,000,000 Characters
(1983)

The First Desktop Publishing Program
(1984)

The First Scalable Type Fonts
(1984)

2600: The Hacker Quarterly
(1984)

Perhaps the first Underground "Ezine"
(June 1984)

The First Laserprinter for a Microcomputer
(January 1985)

The First Widely-Used Desktop Publishing Program
(July 1985)

Cyberpunk
(1986)

Boing-Boing
(1988)

The PDF
(1991)

TrueType Fonts
(1991)

Pioneering Collaboration of Electronic Librarianship, Journalism and Telecommunications
(1992)

The Web's First and Longest Continuously Running Blog
(1993)

Wired 1.01
(March 1993)

The First Commercial Website with the First Online Advertising
(May 1993)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Begins Publishing on its Website
(January 1995)

The First Wiki
(March 25, 1995)

Network-Based Scholarly Publishing
(June 1995)

D-Lib Magazine
(July 1995)

968,735 New Different Printed Books Are Produced This Year
(1996)

www.nytimes.com
(January 19, 1996)

The Last Printed Edition of Beilstein is Published
(1998)

700,000 New Book Titles Published in 1998
(1998)

64,711 New Books on Paper are Published in the U.S.
(1999)

Early English Books Online
(1999)

3,200,000 Books In Print in the U.S.
(2000)

Predecessor of the Wikipedia
(March 9, 2000 – September 2003)

OED Online
(March 14, 2000)

eBook Distributor is Acquired by Barnes & Noble
(June 5, 2000)

The Wikipedia Begins
(January 15, 2001)

The Future of eBooks
(May 3, 2001)

The World's Smallest Book
(2002)

The First Cell Phone Novel
(2003)

859,000 New Book Titles Published Worldwide in 2003
(2003)

Regulations.gov is Launched
(January 2003)

The World's Largest Book --Spectacularly Beautiful
(December 2003)

18th Century Collections Online
(2004)

1,200,000 Unique Book Titles are Sold
(2004)

The Institute for the Future of the Book
(2004)

Image Manipulation in Scientific Publications
(July 6, 2004)

BitTorrent
(September 22, 2004)

8,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(November 2004)

The Century of Science Initiative
(January 2005)

Code 2.2 wiki
(March 2005)

Wikimania!
(August 4 – August 8, 2005)

Morphing in Two
(October 2005)

1,500 New Articles are Added to the Wikipedia Monthly
(October 2005)

300,000,000 Printed Copies
(October 5, 2005)

Massively Distributed Collaboration
(November 9, 2005)

3,700,000 Articles in 200 Languages
(December 2005)

Google Books
(December 2005)

Nearly as Accurate as Brittanica
(December 14, 2005)

College-Level Lectures Via Podcasts
(January 28, 2006)

The Espresso "On Demand" Book Machine
(April 2006)

Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press in the United States
(July 13, 2006)

The Sony Reader PRS-500
(Circa September – October 2006)

Nature Announces Peer to Peer Review
(September 14, 2006)

Publishing Patent Filings on the Web
(September 26, 2006)

Newspaper Advertising in Partnership with Yahoo
(November 20, 2006)

3.1 Billion Books
(Circa December 2006)

YouWitnessNews
(December 5, 2006)

The Importance of Social Networking on the Internet
(December 16, 2006)

1,543,119 Articles in English
(December 21, 2006)

A Printed Book on Preserving Digital Information
(2007)

More than 4.7 Billion Bibles Have Been Printed
(2007)

No More than 10,000,000 Unique Editions before 1900
(2007)

Sales of Books in America in 2007
(2007)

976,000 New Book Titles Published in 2007
(2007)

The Oldest Currently Published Newspaper Moves to the Web
(January 1, 2007)

MediaCommons: a digital scholarly network
(January 24, 2007)

12,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(February 2007)

The English Language Wikipedia Contains More than 2,000,000 Articles
(September 2007)

28,578,000 Printed Copies
(November 2007)

Codex in Crisis
(November 5, 2007)

The Amazon Kindle
(November 19, 2007)

Encyclopedia Will Include Wiki-Style Collaboration
(June 2008)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

Viewing the Illustrations of a Journal Article in Three Dimensions
(September 30, 2008)

Supposedly the Largest Atlas Ever Published as a Printed Book
(October 2008)

An Encyclopedia with More than Ten Million Articles
(October 27, 2008)

The First National Newspaper to Shift From a Daily Print Format to an Online Publication
(October 28, 2008)

Authors, Publishers and Google Reach "Landmark Settlement"
(October 28, 2008)

An Election Reported Interactively in Real Time
(November 4, 2008)

Web Collage of 208 Print Newspapers
(November 9, 2008)

PC Magazine Becomes an Online-Only Publication
(November 19, 2008)

Over 5,000,000 Articles Posted on the HighWire Press e-Publishing Platform.
(December 2, 2008)

Probably the Most Expensive Single Volume Printed Edition Ever Published
(December 2, 2008)

Rare Books Magazine Moves from Print to the Web
(January 1, 2009)

27-55% of All Internet Traffic
(February 2009)

"Google and the Future of Books"
(February 12, 2009)

Increasing Sales of Digital Books (eBooks)
(May 5, 2009)

Larger Version of the Amazon Kindle Introduced
(May 6, 2009)

Changing the Advertising Model for General News Reporting
(May 21, 2009)

Google Will Sell E-Books
(May 31, 2009)

British Literary Manuscripts Online
(May 31, 2009)

Size of the Online Book Market in the U.S.
(June 1, 2009)

Amazon Sends Orwell eBooks Down the "Memory Hole"
(July 16, 2009)

USA Today Adds E-Book Sales to its Bestsellers List
(July 22, 2009)

The Overlap of Innovation and Tradition in the 15th Century Media Revolution
(August 2009)

Darnton's Case for Books: Past, Present and Future
(September 14, 2009)

The First Historical Thesaurus
(October 2009)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism
(October 3, 2009)

e-Book Sales Represent 1.6% of Book Sales
(October 7, 2009)

" A Library to Last Forever" ??
(October 9, 2009)

Google Living Stories
(December 8, 2009)

The Amazon Kindle is Hacked; eBook Digital Rights Management Cracked
(December 23, 2009)

eBooks Begin to Outsell Physical Books; 1.49 Million Kindles Sold?
(December 27, 2009)

Biological Journals to Require Data-Archiving
(January 2010)

"Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication. . . "
(February 2010)

Modifiable eBook Editions of Textbooks
(February 22, 2010)

Probably the First Fully Visually Satisfying Interactive eBook
(April 5, 2010)

Untitled
(April 7, 2010)

The First Pulitizer Prizes for Internet Journalism
(April 12, 2010)

General Statistics on U.S. Book Publishing Industry
(May 6, 2010)

Social Networking Added to Reading Electronic Books
(June 12, 2010)

For the First Time E-books Outsell Digital Books on Amazon.com
(July 19, 2010)

The First Traditional Humanities Journal to Try "Open" Peer Review
(July 26, 2010)

There are "129,864,880" Different Books in the World
(August 5, 2010)