History of the magazine

History of magazine

•    1663 The world's first magazine is published in Germany. 


•    1731 The first modern general-interest magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine, is published in England. The purpose of the magazine was to entertain. 


•    1739 The Scots Magazine begins and today remains the oldest consumer magazine in print. 


•    1741 Benjamin Franklin intends to publish America's first magazine, General Magazine, but is scooped when American Magazine comes out three days before he intended to release it 


•    1770 The first women's magazine, The Lady's Magazine, starts with literary and fashion content plus embroidery patterns. 


•    1843 The Economist begins examining news, politics, business, science and the arts. 


•    1857 The Atlantic magazine is published 


•    1895 Collier's weekly magazine starts and is published until 1957. 


•    1895 An American magazine, The Bookman, lists popular books, originating the idea of a bestseller list. 


•    1896 The first pulp fiction magazines are printed on cheap wood pulp paper.


•    1897 The old Saturday Evening Post is brought back by Cyrus Curtis to become the most widely circulated weekly magazine. 


•    1899 National Geographic is made.

•    1902 McClure's Magazine inaugurates the muckraking era with the article "Tweed Days in St. Louis" by C.H. Wetmore and Lincoln Steffens. 


•    1912 Photoplay is the first magazine for fans of film 


•    1922 Reader's Digest begins publishing. 


•    1923 Time, the first U.S. newsmagazine, is started by Henry Luce

•    1925 New Yorker magazine arrives. 
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•    1933 Newsweek begins publication. 


•    1933 Esquire is the first men's magazine. 


•    1936 Life, a weekly photojournalism news magazine, is started by Henry Luce and continues to 1972. 


•    1937 Look, a bi-weekly, general-interest and photojournalism magazine, starts and continues to 1971. 


•    1944 Seventeen is the first magazine devoted to adolescents. 


•    1953 TV Guide starts. 


•    1953 Playboy opens with Marilyn Monroe on the cover. 


•    1954 Sports Illustrated is started by Time magazine owner Henry Luce. Two other magazines with that name had been started in the 1930s and 1940s, but both had failed. 


•    1967 Rolling Stone demonstrates the popularity of special-interest magazines. 


•    1967 New York magazine appears as a regional magazine. 


•    1972 Feminist Gloria Steinem brings out Ms. magazine. 


•    1974 People debuts with Mia Farrow on the cover. 


•    1990 Entertainment Weekly starts. 


•    1993 Wired magazine arrives with a voracious curiosity about everything under the Sun.