Timeline of Magazines
1476 - William Caxton establishes England’s first printing enterprise in Westminster. Caxton dies in 1491.
1731 - The first general modern general-interest magazine. Intended to entertain with Essays, poems, stories and political commentary.
1741 - First US magazine (American Magazine)
1861 - First colour photography
1875 - Uk trademarks Registration Act
1886 - Composition launched in US as fiction magazine
1888 - Alfred Harmsworth launches weekly Answers to Correspondents on Every Subject under the Sun to appeal to a new population of young readers.
1890s - Football clubs publish programmes and magazines.
1900s - British magazines widely distributed around the empire and the US.
1928 - National Magazines goes into book publishing
1933 - Photo-based news magazines start to appear in the UK.
1982 - Computer magazines, such as Acorn User at Addison-Wesley in London, start to use e-mail systems and online bulletin boards
1990 - Margaret Thatcher portrayed on the cover of the Sunday Times magazine supplement
1995 - The UK's first fully interactive magazine on CD-Rom
2000 - National Magazines buys UK arm of Gruner and Jahr
2001 - National Magazines launches In Style and Cosmo Girl! Cosmo-branded cafes. Launches increase sales in the sector by 17.8 per cent.
2003 - Glamour confirms position as best-selling women's monthly, more than 100,000 copies ahead of Cosmo, at 576,832 copies
2004 - BBC Magazines announces ownership deal with publisher of The Times of India, following relaxing of country's rules on foreign investment.
2006 - H. Bauer launches ' In the Know
2014 - Press Complaints Commission, the newspaper and magazines watchdog, replaced by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO)
2018 - Time Inc UK sold to private equity company Epiris in a deal estimated at £130m
