Romes sets up a network of relay runners who would carry messages 50 miles in a day.
After a fire is set by Julius Caesar's troops, the Alexandrian Library survives while losing many books.
Julius Caesar orders postings of a daily gazette called the Acta Diurna.
Mark writes the first Gospel.
Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese imperial eunuch, is officially credited with inventing paper.
The Rosetta stone is carved in Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphics.
China's Ch'in emperor, Shihuang, ordered the destruction of all books.
The Alexandrian Library is destroyed. It was said to have been ordered by the Archbishop of Antioch.
Pheidippides died after bringing the news of victory at Marathon to Athens.
The Persian government establishes a pony express.
The start of Western monasticism. It would keep learning alive in Christian Europe.
The Chinese develop xylography.
Mediterranean cultures agree on left-to-right writing
The first appearance of Latin.
Muslim Caliphs set up a regular pigeon post which was the first news service.
A newspaper is printed in China.
400 years after the Trojan War, the Illiad and the Odyssey are written down.
Greeks add vowels to the Phoenician alphabet
The oldest existing book, The Diamond Sutra, is created.
China's Zhou Dynasty sets up a pony express postal service for its government.
The Olmecs invent the first writing system in the Americas.
A schoolboy's clay tablet listing the months of the year is the oldest existing Hebrew Text.
Oldest books of the Bible are written
Notches in bones found in the Near East presumed to be a lunar calendar.
Murasaki Shikabu's The Tale of Genji is the world's first novel.
Arab scholar Alhazen describes a room-size camera obscura.
A Chinese commoner, Pi Sheng, develops movable type using clay. This method was more efficient than woodblock printing.
Chinese writing, a logographic writing system, emerges.
The Phoenician alphabet emerges.
Books are copied and sold for profit. This usually occurred at universities.
Monasteries contact each other by their own postal systems.
The University of Paris is granted a charter which allows it to start its own mail, messenger system.
Koreans use movable type.
The first paper mill is built in Christian Europe in Fabriano, Italy.
Marco Polo tells of paper money in China.
The Taxis family runs a private postal service for Europeans.
Petrarch's discovery of classical manuscripts helps bring on the Renaissance.
The Bible is translated into English.
Jikji, a Korean book, is the oldest existing metal printed book.
Europeans use xylography to produce books.
Possible date of Johannes Gutenberg's first printing effort.
Hindu hymns are written in Sanskrit
Alphabetic symbols derived from hieroglyphs are found in Sinai inscriptions
The code of Hammurabt was carved on a stone pillar.
Tokens placed in clay ball envelopes.
Old existing writing on papyrus
A Mesopotamian king uses homing pigeons.
In Egypt, scribes began to use hieratic writing, a condensed, cursive hieroglyphic.
Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing
Numerals are separated from symbols of goods
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