Journalism is the business of turning information, into money" -Chris Horrie
So when did all this journalism business start? The world has come a long way today, the language we use must have originated somewhere, and many historical events have shaped the way we share and receive information.
So lets take a look back at the beginning of Journalism:
6000 BC: The first language is formed: Chinese. Their pictographic script gave symbols a meaning, which was taught to others as a way of communication.
http://img.chinaa2z.com/uploadpic/learn/Sinology/2008/20081226/20081226152010712143/1230276366.jpg
4000 BC: Egyptian hieroglyphics: This was also a symbolic, picture based language.
http://www.jimloy.com/hiero/yourname.gif
3800 BC: Summarian Cuneiform script: This was a breakthrough in language, as it used abstract strokes and lines to form words, rather than pictures and symbols.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/254519011_79d693fa8f_o.jpg
740 BC: Lindisfarne Gospel: A manuscript written in a way based on latinate characters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/images/2006/11/24/lindisfarne_gospel_331x470.jpg
1440s: Guttenburg's printing press: The glorious inventions which keeps journo's in a job!http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sable/recherche/catalogues/annual_register/images/printing_press.jpg
1460s: The Italian Renassiance: This has been covered in previous blog entries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance
1517: Martin Luther's 95 Theses: Regarded as a catalyst for the Protestant Reformation
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/history/95theses.htm
1540: King Henry VIII: Need I say more? What a tyrant!
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Tudors/henrytimeline.htm
1563: Foxe's book of Martyrs: A work of the Reformation.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/History/AD/FoxsBookofMartyrs/
1564-1569: Sir John Hawkins, the first English slave trader (2000 in the WIndies by 1600)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUDhawkinsJ.htm
1588: Spanish Armada: King Phillip felt like invading us, because he was skint?http://www.britainexpress.com/History/tudor/armada.htm
1620: The Mayflower: Pilgrims travelled to the "New World". Transport is improving!http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/themayflowerreachesamerica
1641-1651: English Civil War: England went to war...with itself.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~crossby/ECW/
1651: The Navigation Acts (War with the Dutch merchants) Lasts almost 100 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_Acts
1660: Restoration: Charles II restored the monastries in England, Scotland and Ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Restoration
1667: John Locke: An Essay Into Human Understanding: I'm not going into all this again!http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
1688: The Glorious Revolution: I dont need to write anything, because this site does it for me.
http://www.thegloriousrevolution.org/
1690: Battle of the Boyne: Everyone began picking on poor Ireland...
http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/events/dates/ch5.shtm
1698: Royal Africa Company chartered (Slave/ penal labour trade ‘privatised’)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_African_Company
1700: The Birth of Isaac Newton: A very influential part of modern life.
http://www.newton.ac.uk/newtlife.html
1702: The Daily Courant: The first national newspaper is created and published nationally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Courant
1703: Daniel Defoe: Writer. Journalist. Pamphleteer. This guy's got it all!http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jdefoe.htm
1704: Final collapse of the Darien Scheme (Mercantile Scottish colony - bankruptcy). http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/DarienScheme.htm
1707: Act of Union with Scotland - Robert Burns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ncizeO2jk
1709: The Spectator/The Tatler: Birth of Periodical Press, more info soon on Journalism Now.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/5428/Joseph-Addison/45/The-Tatler-and-The-Spectator
1719: Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (500 books and pamphlets, English spy)http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jdefoe.htm
1729 - Irish Famine - Swift, A Modest Proposal
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
1731: Hogarth-Gin Alley: The first of photojournalism.
http://dougboren.homestead.com/files/400ginlane.jpg
1745: Battle of Culloden (failed Jacobite revolt - end of tribal society in Great Britain)http://www.britishbattles.com/battle_of_culloden.htm
1759: Adam Smith : Theory of Moral Sentiments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments
1775: Samuel Johnsons Dictionary: The first English Dictionary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language
1776: American Revolution: "A unique and radical event"
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/
1776: Adam Smith : The Wealth of Nations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
1783: The Zong case - English law holds that slaves are not people, but livestock
http://wilberforce.1kit.com/1kit/SlaveShip/TheZong/tabid/3799/Default.aspx
1789: French Revolution: If the Americans got one, the French wanted one to.
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h33-fr.html
1815: Battle of Waterloo: Another battle, after Napolean was forced to abdicate.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/waterloo.htm
1830: William Cobbett: Rural Rides
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/contents_page.jsp?t_id=Cobbett
1831: The Baptist War (slave revolt in Jamaica - nb - continuous resistance to slavery)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_War
1832: Parliamentary Reform Bill - political power shifts to the manufacturing towns, the north
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR1832.htm
1833: Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire (Emancipation of West Indian slaves)http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lslavery33.htm
1846: Repeal of the Corn Laws (final end of mercantile system). http://www.victorianweb.org/history/cornlaws2.html
1850s: Manchester: Peak of factory system/Free Trade/Industrial Revolution/Liberalism.
http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/history/victorian/Victorian1.html
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