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| 1960 | Excepta Medical electronic database (EMBASE) started. |
| 1962 | US and UK Elsevier Publishing Company begun. |
| 1970 | Reed acquires International Publishing Corporation (IPC), which comprises Mirror Group Newspapers and includes Odhams, George Newnes, National Trade Press, Pearsons, Collinridge, Amalgamated Press, Kellys, Thomas Skinner, Iliffe and Sone, Hulton Press, and Butterworths. It also included a 29.2% interest in Cahners Publishing in the USA. |
| 1970 | Parent company is now Reed International Limited, with former name, Reed Group Limited used for the European paper and packaging division. |
| 1971 | Merger of Elsevier Publishing Company NV, North Holland Publishing Company, and Excerpta Medica to form Associated Science Publishers. |
| 1974 | Reed forms publishing into two divisions: Mirror Group Newspapers and IPC. |
| 1975 | Merger of Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier and Edicom to form Elsevier Nederland. |
| 1977 | Reed completes acquisition of Cahners Publications. |
| 1979 | Elsevier purchases Congressional Information Services. |
| 1979 | Elsevier merges with Nederlandse Dagbladunie N.V., newspaper publishers and becomes Elsevier, N.V. Associated Scientific Publishers becomes Elsevier Scientific Publishers. |
| 1981 | Elsevier acquires Focal Press. |
| 1982 | Reed changes name from Reed International Ltd. to Reed International PLC |
| 1982 | Reed acquires The Update Group. |
| 1984 | Reed disposes of the Mirror Group Newspapers to Robert Maxwell for $90 million. |
| 1985 | Reed purchases R.R. Bowker Co. and Online Computer Systems, Inc. |
| 1987 | Reed purchases Octopus Publishing (mass Market non-fiction, children's books, education) for £ 540 million. |
| 1987 | Elsevier makes first attempt to takeover Kluwer, this attempt fails. |
| 1987 | Reed purchasesVariety Magazine |
| 1987 | Reed acquires K G Saur Verlag. |
| 1988 | Elsevier forms a publishing partnership with Pearson PLC; the shares were sold in 1991. |
| 1988 | Mead Data Central buys the Michie Co. for $226.5 million; Elsevier purchases MDC in 1993. |
| 1989 | Reed purchasesTV Timesin the UK for £123 million. |
| 1989 | Reed purchases Martindale-Hubbell for £ 189 and merges it with R.R. Bowker and Butterworths. |
| 1991 | Reed purchases Marquis Who's Who and National Register Publishing from Macmillan for $145 million. |
| 1991 | Elsevier purchases Pergamon Press from Maxwell for £ 440 million. |
| 1992 | Reed International merges with Elsevier NV (becoming Reed Elsevier PLC as of January 1, 1993). |
| 1992 | Reed Elsevier purchases Parker & Sons Publications (Parker Griffin Publishing Company) |
| 1993 | Reed Elsevier purchases the Official Airline Guides for $417 million from Maxwell. |
| 1994 | Reed Elsevier purchases Mead Data for $1.5 billion, and renames it Lexis-Nexis. |
| 1995 | Reed Elsevier disposes of Reed Regional Newspapers in a management buyout, and sells the consumer magazines of Cahners. |
| 1996 | Reed Elsevier goes into a joint venture with Times Mirror to manage the Shepard's Company, publisher of legal citations. |
| 1996 | Reed Elsevier purchases Tolley Publishing Company. |
| 1997 | Reed Elsevier purchases JAI Press/Ablex Publishing. |
| 1997 | Reed Elsevier purchases the Chilton Business Group (American Metal, Motor Age, etc.), publisher of manufacturing materials from Walt Disney subsidiary ABC, Inc. for $447 million. |
| 1997 | Reed Elsevier purchases 40 US legal publications of the Thomson Corporation. |
| 1997 | Reed Elsevier purchases Colofon Group (business) and MDL Information Systems (scientific). |
| 1998 | Reed Elsevier sells IPC Magazines, Reed Children's Books, and Reed Illustrated Books. |
| 1998 | Reed Elsevier acquires The Beilstein Database, BioMedNet, ChemWeb, Engineering Information from Current Science Group. |
| 1998 | Reed Elsevier launches the Science Direct Database of online journals. |
| 1998 | Total acquisitions estimated at $1.2 billion. |
| 1998 | Reed Travel Group, Cahners Publications, and Chilton Publications combine to create Cahners Business. |
| 1998 | Reed Elsevier's Lexis Nexis division acquires Matthew Bender & Co. and the remaining 50% of Shepard from Times Mirror for $1.65 billion. |
| 1999 | Morris Tabaksblat appointed Chairman and Crispin Davis CEO of Reed Elsevier. |
| 2000 | Cahners Business acquires eLogic Corp. for $79 million. |
| 2000 | Cahners Business purchases CMD Group (construction publisher) for $300 million. |
| 2000 | Reed Elsevier's Lexis-Nexis Group acquires the Business Information Product of theFinancial Times. |
| 2000 | Reed Elsevier acquires Miller Freeman Europe (business publishing) for $545 million. |
| 2000 | Reed Elsevier sells K. G. Saur to Thomson for an estimated $50 million. |
| 2000 | Reed Elsevier combines Lexis Nexis and Butterworth Tolley to form Lexis Nexis Butterworth Tolley. |
| 2000 | Reed Elsevier acquires Endeavor Information Systems, integrated library systems. |
| 2000 | Reed Elsevier acquires Schnell Publishing (chemical industry information). |
| 2001 | Reed Elsevier acquires Harcourt General for $4.5 billion (includes Academic Press, W.B. Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Balliere Tindell, and Mosby). |
| 2001 | Reed Elsevier sells Harcourt's higher education publishing units and professional services to Thomson for $2.06 billion. |
| 2001 | Reed Elsevier sells Bowker to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts for a reported $20-$30 million and National Register Publishing Company and Marquis to Commonwealth Business Media. |
| 2001 | Reed Elsevier disposes of Cahners Travel Group and OAG (Official Airline Guides). |
| 2002 | Reed Elsevier purchases Qucklaw, MBO Verland and FactLANE, all legal publications. |
| 2002 | Reed Elsevier purchases the STM business of Holtzbrinck. |
| 2003 | Reed Elsevier purchases Applied Discovery and Dolan Media Company, both legal publishers. |
| 2003 | Reed Elsevier purchases CIMA Publishing, a publisher of learning products. |
| 2005 | Reed Elsevier purchases MediMedia, a profesional medical publishing business. |
