Wiley chronology

This chronology is indicative only. There's a separate, more general communications and media timeline.

     beginnings

1807 Charles Wiley founds printery, bookshop and publishing house in Manhattan

1814 forms partnership with Cornelius Van Winkle, later publishes work by Washington Irving

1820 focuses on publishing and bookselling

1821 publishes James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy

1826 John Wiley inherits publishing business

1836 partnership with George Putnam

1848 Putnam leaves partnership, subsequently founds Putnams

1852 alliance with UK publisher Parry & Company

1875 John Wiley & Son incorporated

1891 death of John Wiley

1895 alliance with UK publisher Chapman & Hall

     overseas expansion

1959 Wiley establishes branch in UK

1961 buys Interscience Publishers

1963 establishes branch in Australia

1965 establishes branch in India

1968 establishes branch in Canada

1972 establishes Halsted Press

1976 buys Xerox's College Publishing Division

1977 buys Ronald Press, St Clair Press and Professional Publications - accounting publishers

1982 buys Wilson Learning Coporation

1984 buys Scripta-Technica scientific journals publisher and translator

1989 buys Alan R. Liss

1991 buys James Publishing Group and Chancery Law Publishing

1993 buys earth and environmental sciences titles of Belhaven Press

1993 buys QED Information Services

1994 buys accounting software specialist ValuSource

1994 buys publishing arm of Executive Enterprises

1996 buys Clinical Psychology Publishing

1996 buys newsletters from Technical Insights and Lyda Associates

1996 buys 90% interest in VCH scientific publishing group for US$99m

1997 sells humanities book/journal unit and Akademie Verlag to Munich-based Oldenbourg Verlag

1997 sells Wiley Law Publications division to Kluwer for US$26m

1997 buys Van Nostrand Reinhold for US$28m from Thomson

1997 buys Preservation Press

1998 buys publishing programs of Chronimed

1998 buys most of Huthig Publishing Group

1998 buys publishing arm of Hewin International

1998 becomes publisher of American Cancer Society's Cancer journal

1999 buys most of Pearson Education's college textbook and instructional package division for US$58m

1999 buys J.K. Lasser tax and financial guides from IDG Books

1999 Wiley buys book interests of German Materials Science Society

1999 buys Jossey-Bass from Pearson for US$82m

2000 buys majority interest in Capstone Publishing

2001 buys Australian publisher Wrightbooks

2001 buys Hungry Minds Inc for US$182m

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