| 1990 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: Helsinki University Library Center for Microfilming and Conservation established |
| 1992 |
Trove: ANPlan established |
| 1993 |
ZEFYS: Newspaper department established at the Berlin State Library |
| 1997 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: Microfilming process moved to the National Centre for Preservation and Digitisation |
| 1998 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: Formation of the Nordic digitisation project TIDEN |
| 1999 |
Delpher: Digitisation begins |
| 1999 |
ZEFYS: Berlin State Library installs a reprographic company in the newspaper department |
| 2000 |
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México: Planning for HNDM begins |
| 2000 |
Papers Past: Digitisation begins |
| 2000 |
Papers Past: Founding |
| 2001 |
British Library 19th Century Newspapers: 20,000 pages processed in the first two months |
| 2001 |
British Library 19th Century Newspapers: Begins developing a prototype system for newspaper digitisation |
| 2001 |
Papers Past: Website launched |
| 2001 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: Digitisation begins |
| 2001 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: First digitised newspaper collection launched |
| 2001 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: Founding |
| 2001 |
Trove: National Library in Canberra takes on the role of coordinating ANPlan |
| 2002 |
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México: Digitisation begins |
| 2002 |
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México: First HNDM interface launched |
| 2002 |
Times Digital Archive: First content release (1936-46) |
| 2002-2003 |
Times Digital Archive: Initial 1785-1985 material digitised |
| 2003 |
Times Digital Archive: Second content release (1880-1985) |
| 2003 |
Times Digital Archive: Final content release (1785-1879) |
| 2004 |
British Library 19th Century Newspapers: Founding |
| 2004-2007 |
British Library 19th Century Newspapers: First digitisation phase (British Library 19th Century Newspapers Part I) |
| 2005 |
Chronicling America: Digitisation begins |
| 2005 |
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México: Founding |
| 2005 |
Papers Past: National Library of New Zealand pilot project using OCR to generate full text and make newspapers searchable |
| 2005-2007 |
Chronicling America: First round of digitisation funding |
| 2006 |
Suomen Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut sanomalehdet: Automated encoding of word coordinates and grayscale scanning implemented |
| 2007 |
Chronicling America: Founding |
| 2007 |
Delpher: Digital Daily Newspapers/Dutch Digital Databank (DDD) digitisation begins |
| 2007 |
Papers Past: Website relaunched |
| 2007 |
Times Digital Archive: Gale acquired by Cengage |
| 2007 |
Trove: Digitisation begins |
| 2008 |
Trove: Founding of Trove |
| 2008 (Jul.) |
Trove: Australian Newspapers Beta service launched |
| 2008 (Aug.) |
Trove: Crowdsourced text correction incorporated |
| 2008-2009 |
British Library 19th Century Newspapers: Second digitisation phase (British Library 19th Century Newspapers Part II) |
| 2009 |
Trove: Australian Newspapers service incorporated into Trove |
| 2009 |
ZEFYS: Digitised newspaper portal launched |
| 2011 |
Chronicling America: United States Newspaper Program ceases operations |
| 2011-2013 |
Chronicling America: Many technical metadata fields reclassified as ‘recommended’ |
| 2012 |
Europeana: Founding |
| 2013 |
Delpher: Founding |
| 2015 |
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México: Most recent HNDM interface redesign |
| 2016 |
Europeana: TEL service closed |
| 2016 (Jul.) |
Chronicling America: Expands date range from 1836-1922 to 1690-1963 |
| 2018 |
British Library 19th Century Newspapers: Metadata separated into three XML files instead of one |