Origins of the Press...

- Hobbes, Locke.

- The English Civil War and Restoration Journalism.

- Joseph Addison - 'The Royal Exchange'

- 'The Restoration' - After the Civil War

- Oliver Cromwell was a puritan.

- Commercial Revolution in North America 1600's and early 1700's.

- The Royal Exchange is a place in London where people go and exchange products (trading)

- Nationalistic was seen as being protestant.

- This was therefore mocking the styles of empiricists.

- Economists came from Imperialism.

- Trading came to make different things around the world.

- "Journalism is a business of turning information into money."

6000BC - Chinese pictographic script (writing with pictures)

4000 BC - Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

3800BC - Sumerian cuneiform script (writing with knives)

740BC - Lindesfarne Gospel

1440's - Gutenberg's Printing Press (Caxton 1420's)

1460 - Lorenzo Media; Florence, The Renaissance

1517 - Martin Luther, 95 thesis (reformation)

1540 - Henry the 8th - Tudor wars of religion

1563 - Foxes book of Martyrs - Pull pit as news media

1588 - Spanish Armada - Elizabeth Tudor

1620 - The Mayflower - American Colonies/Stuarts

1641 - 1651 - The English Civil War

1660 - Restoration of the Stuart monarchy - Charles the 2nd/Restoration literature

1667 - John Locke - Essay on Human Understanding

1688 - The Glorious Revolution/Act of Settlement/William of Orange

1690 - Battle of the Boyne (James the 2nd attempted Jacobite restoration) (Jacobites are the catholic followers of James the 2nd)

1700 - Isaac Newton

1702 - The Daily Courant - first newspaper

1703 - Daniel Defoe (father of British Journalism)

1707 - Act of Union with Scotland (Battle of Culloden 1745)

1709 - The Spectator/The Tatler (first magazine)/Joseph Addison - Whig ascendancy

1731 - Hogarth - Gin Alley (photo journalism)

1775 - Samuel Johnson's dictionary

1776 - American Revolution

1789 - French Revolution

1813 - Waterloo

1700 - 1750 - Press

1 - Protestant Bible

2 - King James' Bible

3 - Foxes Book of Martyrs

Protestantism - within the body of Christianity and purifying the church.

1 - Differs from Catholicism - reads scripture in their own language. Catholics read in Latin, protestants tend not to.

2 - Congregationalist Religion - Hierarchy, have read the bible in their own language.