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. This list has not been updated in a while.
Digital fandom can theoretically be divided into five eras based on common themes, settings, and pairings, as suggested 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.