First issue of The Daily Universal Register published by John Walter I.

The Times reports the Battle of Trafalgar on its front page. This issue was picked as one of the 50 front pages of the Millennium by the Press Gazette.

First issue of The Times printed using the Koenig and Bauer steam printing press - a world first.

The Sunday Times serialises William Howard Ainsworth’s St Paul’s which runs in the paper to December 26. It is widely believed to be the first serialisation of a novel in a British newspaper.

The Times starts the Soldiers’ Sick and Wounded Fund in response to the suffering reported by its Constantinople Correspondent during the Crimean War. The money raised funded the work of Florence Nightingale and her nurses in the Scutari and Therapia hospitals plus the equipment they needed.

The Times begins to be printed using the new Walter Press, the first complete stereo rotary reel-fed perfector printing press in the world, designed by The Times.

The Times’ most spectacular coup was accomplished by its Paris Correspondent, Henri de Blowitz, when the vast majority of the text of the Treaty of Berlin, including all its principal clauses, was published in a second edition on the day it was signed in Berlin.

The Times has installed a telephone line between the Reporters Gallery and the Composing Room at its offices in Printing House Square, Blackfriars which allows debates in the House of Commons to be reported up to 45 minutes later.

Flora Shaw becomes the first woman staff correspondent of The Times when she is appointed Colonial Correspondent.

The first edition of The Times Atlas is published

The Times inaugurates “A Novel Plan of Newspaper Distribution” offering readers the opportunity to subscribe to The Times’ new home delivery service for one year at a 23% discount. The paper was to be delivered either by newsagents or by post. This is believed to be the first such scheme introduced in Britain. The following year, as part of a reorganisation of the subscription scheme, vouchers are introduced which can be exchanged for the paper. This is believed to be the first such scheme in the industry.

First issue of The Times Educational Supplement.

First picture page published in The Times.

The Times Weekly Edition published eight pages of colour photographs in its Christmas Number. It was the first time in the history of newspaper production in Britain that pages of colour and monochrome photogravure paper had been incorporated mechanically in a newspaper.

Woman’s Page started in The Times.

The Times’ offices at Printing House Square receive a direct hit from a German bomb at 1.52am. The production of that night’s issue is not lost.

First National Student Drama Festival. [In collaboration with the National Union of Students, The Sunday Times became the sole sponsor of the first festival for several years devoted to student drama. This became an annual event known as the National Student Drama Festival. The paper continued to act as the sole sponsor until April 1975. It continued to part-sponsor the event thereafter.]

First issue of The Sunday Times Colour Section - the first British newspaper to publish such a section. [Name changed to the Sunday Times Magazine on August 9, 1964.]

First Business News section published making The Sunday Times the first British newspaper to publish in three sections.

The Times’ policy of anonymity is overturned and bylines begin to be used by principal staff correspondents.

First issue of The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Anonymity for authors of reviews in the TLS ceases.

The Times becomes the first major newspaper in the world to be printed on TMP, thermo mechanical pulp, a saving on wood of 25%.

Rupert Murdoch buys Times Newspapers Limited.

The Sunday Times publishes its first issue from Wapping.

The Times begins to be published in two sections.

Times 3 first published, a third section presented as a pull-out from Section 2.

First day of printing at Kells in Ireland. 15,000 copies of The Times produced.

First day that The Times is published in compact format alongside the broadsheet.

First Su Doku puzzle published in The Times.

Times Modern replaces Times Classic as the font for The Times. The masthead is also redesigned. Both were designed by Edwina Ellis.

Launch of Culture+, a new club for subscribers to The Times and The Sunday Times

Rebranding of Culture+ as Times+.

Launch of the new websites for The Times and The Sunday Times.

The Times and The Sunday Times websites provide paid-for only content from this date.

Christmas Day iPad edition of The Times published

The Sunday Times publishes iPad and Android editions on Christmas day for the first time [no print edition published].

Sunday Times Tax List is published for the first time, as a section in The Sunday Times Magazine.