| 1730–1807 | UK | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. |
| 30 May 1783 | America | The first daily newspaper in colonial America, the Pennsylvania Evening Post, is published. |
| 1785 | UK | English journalist John Walter starts publication of the Daily Universal Register in London, England. In 1788 the newspaper will change its name to The Times. |
| 1786 | UK | William Tayler sets up the first advertising agency, in Britain. His business is mainly booking advertisements in provincial newspapers. |
| 1791 | UK | The Observer newspaper is founded. |
| c. 1812 | USA | During the War of 1812, the term ‘Uncle Sam’ is first used to refer to the US federal government. First printed in the Troy, New York, Post on September 3, 1813, the term may have originated from Samuel Wilson, a US Army supply inspector known as Uncle Sam. |
| 20 December 1822 | UK | The Sunday Times is founded in London, England, by its parent organization The Times, but with an independent editorial policy. |
| 1842 | UK | The first photograph to be printed in a newspaper appears in the London, England, newspaper The Times. |
| 1843 | UK | The News of the World, a new Sunday newspaper, is launched in London, England. Its immediate popularity means that it is soon the best-selling paper in the world. |
| 21 January 1846 | UK | The Daily News is founded in London, England, with the author Charles Dickens as editor. It is the first cheap daily newspaper in Britain. |
| 1851 | UK | German businessman Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter, founds the Reuters News Agency, in London, England. |
| 18 September 1851 | USA | The New York Times newspaper is launched in the USA, edited by Henry J Raymond. |
| 29 June 1855 | UK | The Daily Telegraph newspaper is launched in Britain. |
| 1872 | UK | The Times becomes the first national newspaper in Britain to be set using a mechanical type-composing machine. |
| 22 February 1886 | UK | The British newspaper The Times introduces a ‘personal column’ in its classified advertising section. |
| 1888 | UK | The Financial Times newspaper is launched in Britain. |
| 1896 | UK | Alfred Harmsworth founds the Daily Mail newspaper in Britain, which is advertised as ‘bright and breezy’, and sold at ½ pence. |
| 1896 | USA | The first comic-strip in a newspaper appears in the New York World. |
| 1900 | UK | The Daily Mail becomes the first newspaper in Britain to attain a circulation of 1 million. |
| 1900 | UK | Cyril Arthur Pearson publishes the Express in Britain; one of the paper's innovations is to have news on the front page. |
| 1912 | Russian Empire | The socialist paper Pravda (‘Truth’) is founded in Russia. |
| 1912 | USA | The Farm Journal holds the first national public opinion poll in the USA, to predict the presidential election result. |
| 10 July 1925 | USSR | The Tass (Telegrafnoe Agentsvo Sovetsovo Soyuza) press agency is founded in the USSR. |
| 3 October 1932 | United Kingdom | The Times introduces the Times New Roman font, in the UK. Designed by Stanley Morrison, it will become the most widely used font for newspapers and magazines. |
| 1939 | Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia | After the German annexation of Czechoslovakia and the invasion of Poland, the free press is closed down in both countries. |
| 2 October 1950 | USA | In the USA, Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, starring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends, appears in newspapers for the first time. |
| September 1964 | UK | The Trades Union Congress in Britain sells its shares in the Daily Herald, which appears for the last time on 14 September. The newspaper is relaunched on the following day as the Sun, and in the 1980s and 1990s will be the best-selling paper in Britain. |
| 1970 | UK | The British tabloid newspaper the Sun features its first topless woman on page three. |
| August 1972 | USA | Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein implicate the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP) in the Watergate burglary, leading to a series of revelations about the Nixon administration's complicity in the Watergate affair that contribute to the president's eventual downfall. |
| 1977 | UK | The circulation of the Sun overtakes that of the competing tabloid Daily Mirror in Britain. |
| 30 November 1978 | UK | The Times and The Sunday Times stop publication in the UK, when unions strike over the introduction of new computer typesetting equipment and resulting lost jobs. The strike will continue for 11 months. |
| 1981 | UK | Australian publisher Rupert Murdoch buys The Times group of newspapers in Britain. |
| 3 May 1982 | UK | The Times is the first national newspaper in Britain to be entirely phototypeset. |
| 1984 | UK | The News of the World is relaunched in Britain as a tabloid Sunday paper. |
| 13 July 1984 | UK | Czech-born British media and publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell buys the Mirror group of newspapers in Britain. |
| January 1990 | UK | A new quality Sunday newspaper, the Independent on Sunday, is launched in Britain. |
| 10 May 1990 | Europe | English newspaper and publishing magnate Robert Maxwell publishes The European, a weekly English-language newspaper for circulation throughout Europe. |
| 17 November 1995 | UK | The last edition of the British newspaper Today, launched in 1986, is published. Its owner, News International, blames its demise on continuing losses (£11 million in its final year). |
