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The Times

British daily national newspaper based in London

13 dated entries naming The Times, drawn from 11 separate years between 1785 CE and 1926 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Daily Universal Register, The London Times in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1785January 1 – The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.source
  • 17881 January – first edition of The Times published under this title (previously The Daily Universal Register).source
  • 1788January 1 – The first edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published in London.source

19th century

  • 180820 July – Henry Crabb Robinson makes the first despatch from a specialist war reporter, to The Times newspaper.source
  • 184322 June – The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.source
  • 18751 April – The Times publishes the first daily weather map.source
  • 1875November 26 – The Times newspaper in London reveals that Isma'il Pasha has sold Egypt's 44% share in the Suez Canal to Britain, in a deal secured by Benjamin Disraeli, without the prior sanction of the British Parliament.source
  • 188315 March – Fenian dynamite campaign: An explosion at the Local Government Board, Charles Street, Mayfair (Westminster) causes over £4,000 worth of damage and some minor injuries to people nearby. A second bomb at The Times newspaper offices in Queen Victoria Street, London does not explode.source
  • 18877 March–18 April – The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discredit Charles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.source

20th century

  • 1914July 9 – The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives the report of the Austro-Hungarian investigation into the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo. The Times of London publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").source
  • 19209 April – The Times publishes a special "Belgian number" (pages 33-54) with contributions by many prominent Belgians.source
  • 1921August 16 – The Times newspaper in London begins a series of articles, written by its Constantinople correspondent Philip Graves, exposing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery.source
  • 1926January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.source

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