59 B.C. Acta Diurna is published in Rome. Julius Caesar orders the major political and social events of the day to be made available to his citizenry. State appointed reporters, called “actuarii”, gather information on everything from wars and legal decisions to births, deaths, and marriages.

713 Mixed News in Kaiyuan is first newspaper published in China. “Kaiyuan” is the name given to the year in which the paper is published.

1040 In China, Pi Sheng invents printing from movable woodblocks.

1392 Movable copper type is invented in Korea.

1447 Johann Gutenberg invents letterpress printing, a process that will enable the mass production of the printed word.

1501 Pope Alexander VI decreed that printed material must be submitted to clerical authority prior to publication in order to prevent heresy. Failure to do so could result in fines or excommunication.

1556 Venetian government publishes Notizie scritte, a monthly newspaper for which readers pay a “gazetta”, or small coin.

1588 In Cologne, Germany, Michael Entzinger publishes a 24 page newsbook reporting on the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The newsbook’s front page shows a woodcut representing the Spanish Armada sailing off the coast of England. Although the report came months after the actual event occurred, this is one of the earliest “first reports” of a significant historical event.

1605 Johann Carolus publishes the first printed newspaper, Relation, in Strasbourg, now in France but at the time a part of the so-called ’Deutsches Reich’.

1621 In London, the newspaper Corante is published.

1631 The Gazette, the first French newspaper, is founded.

1639 First American colonial printing press

1645 World’s oldest newspaper still in circulation, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, is published in Sweden

1690 Publick Occurrences is the first newspaper published in America when it appears in Boston. The editor, Benjamin Harris, stated he would issue the paper “once a month, or, if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener.” The royal authority, wary of publications printed without its express consent, suppresses the newspaper after only one issue.

1704 Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe and often recognized as the world’s first journalist, begins to publish the Review, a periodical covering European affairs.
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