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11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper

  • 11th March 2021
  • Tagged as: Culture, Media, Newspaper, Printing

The Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper, was published in London.

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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

  • 26th March 2020
  • Tagged as: Christianity, Joseph Smith, Latter Day Saint, Mormonism, Printing, Religion

The Book of Mormon is a key sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that was published by Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement, when he was twenty-four years old.

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4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

  • 4th July 2019
  • Tagged as: Books, Culture, England, Literature, Mathematics, Novel, Oxford, Printing

Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

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11th May 868: The world’s earliest dated printed book created in China

  • 11th May 2019
  • Tagged as: Books, Buddhism, China, Culture, India, Printing

The world’s earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was created in China.

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