Newspaper: Timeline

1650   ''Einkommende Zeitungen'' - first German Germany

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 newspaper (cancelled 1918).

1702   The first regular English language English language

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 newspaper, ''The Daily Courant''. is published for the first time.

1704   The first regular newspaper in British North America, the Boston, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts

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 ''The Boston News-Letter'', is published.

1737   The oldest existing English language English language

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 newspaper in the world, The (Belfast) News Letter founded in Ireland Ireland

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1764   The English-language ''Quebec Gazette'' is established in Quebec City Quebec City

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, Quebec Quebec

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, Canada Canada

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. As of 2005, it is the oldest surviving newspaper in North America North America

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1791   The first issue of ''The Observer'', the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

1846   ''The Oregon Spectator'' becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific Pacific Ocean

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 coast of the United States United States

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1874   The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.

1878   ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States United States

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1896   First edition of Italian Italy

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 sports newspaper ''La Gazzetta dello Sport'' is published.

1944   The ''Daily Mail'' becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.

1951   The ''Dennis the Menace'' comic strip Comic strip

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 appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.

1961   Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights Human rights

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 organization Amnesty International.