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Concise History of the British Newspaper
in the Eighteenth Century
Farley's Bath Journal 18 October 1756
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The
British Newspaper, 1701-1750
The Edinburgh Courant 17-19 December 1705
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- 1701 - Sept 6 : Estimated first issue of the
Norwich Post: probably the first provincial newspaper.
- 1702 - March 11 : Daily Courant founded,
first daily paper. Ceased publication in 1735.
- 1704 : Weekly Review founded by Daniel
Defoe.
- 1704 - Aug 12 : Earliest surviving copy of
a provincial newspaper: William Bonny's Bristol Post-Boy
(No. 91).
- 1705 : Edinburgh Courant founded.
- 1706 : Evening Post, first evening
newspaper, founded.
- 1709 : First Copyright Act.
- 1709 : Tatler founded by Steele and
Addison.
- 1709 : Worcester Post-Man founded.
Became Berrow's Worcester Journal in 1753. Britain's
oldest surviving non-official newspaper.
- 1710 : Examiner founded, with Swift
briefly as editor.
- 1711 : Spectator founded by Steele
and Addison.
- 1712 - Aug : Stamp duty imposed on newspapers
and advertisements.
- 1713 : Stamford Mercury founded,
second oldest surviving provincial newspaper.
- 1719 : Daily Post founded, with Defoe
as contributor.
- 1727 : London Evening Post founded.
Ceased publication in 1797.
- 1730 - Feb 3 : Daily Advertiser founded.
Ceased publication in 1798.
- 1731 : Gentleman's Magazine founded
by Edward Cave. Ceased publication in 1914.
- 1734 : Lloyd's List founded.
- 1737 : Belfast Newsletter, the world's
oldest surviving general daily newspaper, founded.
- 1738 : All parliamentary reporting suppressed.
- 1747 - Dec 29 : Aberdeen Journal
founded, later Press and Journal, the oldest surviving
Scottish newspaper.
Stamford Mercury 6 September 1722
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The British
Newspaper, 1751-1800
The Leedes Intelligencer 19 May 1761
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- 1754 : Leedes Intelligencer founded,
later the Yorkshire Post.
- 1755 - Oct 18 : Bath Advertiser,
Bath's second newspaper, founded to include 'Lists of the Nobility
and Gentry resorting to the BATH; with an Account of Plays perform'd
at both the Theatres'.
- 1760 - Jan 12 : Public Ledger founded:
oldest British periodical with continuous daily publication.
- 1763 : First open reporting of Parliament
since June 1738, in the North Briton under John Wilkes,
who was prosecuted for seditious libel.
- 1770 : Morning Chronicle founded.
Ceased publication in 1862.
- 1771 : Press wins the right to report Parliamentary
proceedings.
- 1772 : Morning Post founded by
John Bell. Merged with Daily Telegraph in 1937.
- 1779 : First London Sunday newspaper: (Mrs)
E. Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor. Ceased
publication in 1829.
- 1780 - Nov 1 : Morning Herald founded.
Ceased publication in 1869.
- 1785 - Jan 1 : Daily Universal Register
founded by John Walter I. Became the Times on 1 January
1788. Britain's oldest surviving newspaper with continuous daily
publication.
- 1788 - May 3 : Star and Evening Advertiser
launched: the first daily evening newspaper.
- 1790 - June 20 : Sunday Chronicle
announces 4 a.m. Sunday morning publication, instead of Saturday
night. All Sunday papers adopt the practice about this time.
- 1791 - Dec 1 : Observer founded:
oldest surviving Sunday newspaper.
- 1794 - Feb 8 : Morning Advertiser
founded by the Licensed Victuallers Association. In 1815 it
became the first daily published in Fleet Street.
- 1796 - May 1 : Bell's Weekly Messenger
founded. Ceased publication in 1896.
The Bath Advertiser 15 November 1755
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