The word diary comes from the Latin diarium ("daily allowance," from dies "day").
The oldest known book resembling a diary is the Diary of Merer, an Ancient Egyptian logbook. Merer was an official involved in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was strictly business—mostly recording the daily transport of limestone from Tura to Giza.
Throughout the short reign of Edward VI between 1547 and 1553, the young ruler kept a journal, a detailed diary recounting events in his kingdom. It is the earliest known diary extant in English
The earliest use of the word to mean a book in which a daily record was written was in Ben Jonson's comedy Volpone in 1605
In 1908 the Smythson company created the first featherweight diary enabling diaries to be carried about.
Inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller documented his life every 15 minutes from 1915 to his death in 1983 in his diary named 'Dymaxion Chronofile'. Ultimately, it contains 14,000 papers and is a staggering 82 metres high..
In 1983, a German magazine bought what they thought where Hitler’s diaries for $6 million. They were authenticated by three handwriting experts, but the magazine refused to let any German experts examine them. The diaries were soon revealed as "grotesquely superficial fakes”.
Reverend Robert Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was a former minister and high school English teacher who lived in Dayton, Washington, USA. His 37.5-million-word diary, the world’s longest, chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
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