Timeline of Newsies Fandom
| Fandom: | Newsies |
| Dates: | 1992 - present |
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This timeline provides events in the Newsies fandom in chronological order. Fannish events are only included if they are listed on Fanlore.
Digital fandom can theoretically be divided into five eras based on common themes, settings, and pairings, as theorized by Sphinx.
1992
January 1: Newsies: A Novel is published.
April 10: Newsies film is released.
August 15: Roundhouse begins airing.
1994
July 1: Dominic Lucero dies from lymphatic cancer.
1996
December 31: The Newsies Webring is created.
1997
December: The Newsie Fan Fiction Collection is online.
1998
July 14: The Newsie Fan Fiction Collection stops updating.
July 15: The Newsies Mailing List is created on Yahoo! Groups.
1999
March: The first lodging house site is created.
March 26: Spitfire posts Learning to Receive.
May: Bottle Alley: Newsies Fan Fiction is online.
July 16: Fans hold The Newsies Rally.
2000
The Golden Newspaper Awards are held for the first time.
July 16: Laces begins posting the Sunny Days Saga.
October 2: Seize The Night, the first Newsies slash archive, is created.
2001
Fans hold a second The Newsies Rally.
January 14: The Newsie Nickname Registry is created.
2002
May 26: The New York Times reports on "Virtual New York," particularly lodging houses.
December 6: Lute posts "Mournful Gaze," possibly the first Snitch/Skittery fic.
2003
February: Keza and Shortie create the Newsies Justice League.
April: Lute hosts Snitch Week, the first known fanweek.
May 4: Queenitsy begins posting How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
August 23: Sloanne begin posting Everything You've Done Wrong.
November 28: Newsies100 is created on LiveJournal.
December 15: Sapphy begins posting Help Me! I’m Trapped In A Mary Sue Body!
2004
May 3: The Refuge is created.
August: The official website for Blood Drips on Newsies Square is available online and a fan LiveJournal community is created.
2007
October 8: Kevin Stea posts Newsies behind-the-scenes videos on YouTube.
2011
September 25: Newsies stage musical premieres at Paper Mill Playhouse.
2012
March 19: Newsies stage musical publically premieres on Broadway.
May 15: Newsies (Original Broadway Cast Recording) released.
June 10: Newsies receives the Tony Awards for Best Choreography and Best Original Score and is nominated for Best Musical.
June 19: 20th Anniversary release of Newsies film.
2014
February 13: bahorelfeuilly posts the first known Mewsies edits.
August 14: Newsies cast perform at 54 Below, "Stop the Presses." Set list.
August 24: Newsies stage musical closes on Broadway.
October 11: Newsies stage musical begins national tour.
2015
January 23: seize-the-davey posts the first Lamp!David meme.
March: The Newsies Pape Selling Competition is first held.
2016
October 2: Newsies stage musical concludes national tour.
2017
April 23: timetogoslumming begins posting Mountain Ridge Camp for Boys.
May 23: Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical made available to stream.
2018
August 11: ArtemisRayne begins posting The Beast of Brooklyn.
November 15: Starrysence posts the first Albert Eats Glass meme.
December 27: Newsiepedia is created.
2019
October 15: Theories of Conflict begins posting.
2020
February 9: The Refuge is last archived and goes down shortly after.
2022
November 28: Newsies stage musical premieres in the West End.