The Daily Telegraph is a British daily broadsheet newspaper, founded in London as the Daily Telegraph and Courier. It was soon taken over by Joseph Moses Levy, who cut the price to a penny, and under his family it became one of the best-selling newspapers of Victorian Britain. Its fortunes were helped by its coverage of foreign news and its sponsorship of expeditions, including Henry Morton Stanley's. In the twentieth century it was owned by the Berry family and later by the Barclay brothers, and it developed a reputation as a conservative paper, sometimes nicknamed the Torygraph. A sister paper, the Sunday Telegraph, was launched in 1961.
Before and after
- 20 October 1854Birth of Arthur Rimbaud
- 25 October 1854Battle of Balaclava
- 21 November 1854Birth of Benedict XV
- 3 December 1854Eureka Rebellion
- 1855Founding of The Daily Telegraph
- 1 January 1855Founding of Ottawa
- from 1855 to 1858Yakima War
- 23 February 1855Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss
- from April 1855 to March 1856Nepalese-Tibetan War
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1792Publication of Dream of the Red Chamber
- 5 May 1821Founding of The Guardian
- 7 April 1837Publication of The Little Mermaid
- 21 February 1848Publication of The Communist Manifesto
- 18 September 1851Founding of The New York Times
- c. 1860sImpressionism
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.