| Date of 1st Publication | last pub, if defunct | Name, and notes |
|---|
| 1665 | | London Gazette, publishing frequency was irregular. |
| 1702 - March 11 | 1735 | Daily Courant founded, first daily paper.
|
| 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 | 1711 | Tatler founded by Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, published tri-weekly. |
| 1709 | | Worcester Post-Man founded. Became Berrow's Worcester
Journal in 1753. Britain's oldest surviving non-official newspaper. |
| 1710 | unknown | Examiner founded, with Swift briefly as editor. Another paper with this name was started by the Hunts in 1808. |
| 1711 | 1712 | Spectator founded by Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, published daily. Some issues ran to 3,000 copies sold. |
| 1713 | | Stamford Mercury founded, second oldest surviving
provincial newspaper. |
| 1719 | | Daily Post founded, with Defoe as contributor. |
| 1727 | 1797 | London Evening Post founded. |
| 1730 - Feb 3 | 1807 | Daily Advertiser founded. |
| 1731 | 1914 | Gentleman's Magazine founded by Edward Cave. |
| 1734 | | Lloyd's List founded. |
| 1737 | | Belfast Newsletter, the world's oldest surviving general
daily newspaper, founded. |
| 1747 - Dec 29 | | Aberdeen Journal founded, later Press
and Journal, the oldest surviving Scottish newspaper. |
| 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. |
| 1769 | 1862 | Morning Chronicle founded. |
| 1772 | 1937 | Morning Post founded by John Bell. Merged with Daily
Telegraph in 1937. |
| 1779 | 1829 | First London Sunday newspaper: (Mrs) E. Johnson's British
Gazette and Sunday Monitor. |
| 1780 - Nov 1 | 1869 | Morning Herald founded. |
| 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. |
| 1789 | | The Mail thrice weekly |
| 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. |
| 1792 | | The Sun |
| 1792 | | The Sporting Magazineor Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and every other Diversion, Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise and Spirit. |
| 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 | 1896 | Bell's Weekly Messenger founded. |
| 1801 - Sept 27 | 1961 | Weekly Dispatch launched. Became Sunday
Dispatch in 1928. |
| 1802 - Jan 1 | 1836 | Cobbett's Annual Register founded, later Cobbett's
Weekly Political Register. |
| 1803 | | Globe launched. Merged with Pall Mall Gazette
in 1921. |
| 1804 | | Cambrian launched in Swansea. First newspaper
published in Wales. |
| 1808 - Jan 3 | 1881 | Examiner launched. Editor Leigh Hunt imprisoned
in 1813 for publishing criticism of the Prince Regent. |
| 1808 | | North Wales Gazette launched in Bangor. First
newspaper published in North Wales. |
| 1810 | | Carmarthen Journal launched. |
| 1814 - Jan 1 | | Baptist Minister, Joseph Harrris launches Seren
Gomer ['Star of Gomer'] in Swansea. First Welsh-language newspaper. |
| 1817 - Jan 25 | | Scotsman launched. |
| 1821 - Feb 18 | | New Observer launched. Became the Sunday
Times on 20 October 1822. |
| 1821 - May 5 | | Manchester Guardian founded by John Edward Taylor. |
| 1822 | | Cardiff Weekly Reporter launched. |
| 1822 - March 3 | | Bell's Life in London adds and Sporting
Chronicle to its title. First newspaper to include sport as a major component. Merged with Sporting Life in 1886. |
| 1827 - May 21 | | Standard launched, later Evening Standard. |
| 1828 - July 5 | | Spectator founded. |
| 1837 | | Northern Star, major Chartist newspaper, founded in
Leeds by Feargus O'Connor. |
| 1841 - July 17 | 1992 | Punch founded. Ceased publication in 1992;
re-launched in 1996. |
| 1841 - Nov 12 | | Jewish Chronicle founded. Oldest Jewish newspaper
in the world. |
| 1842 - May 14 | | Illustrated London News launched: first fully
illustrated weekly. |
| 1842 - Nov 27 | | Lloyd's Illustrated London Newspaper launched,
later Lloyd's Weekly News. Became Sunday News in 1923; incorporated
with Sunday Graphic in 1931. |
| 1843 | | Yr Amserau ['The Times'] founded in Liverpool by John
Jones and edited by William Rees. Published in the Isle of Man between
July and September 1848. Merged with Baner Cymru ['Banner
of Wales'] in 1859 under Thomas Gee to become Baner ac Amserau Cymru. |
| 1843 - Sept 2 | | Economist founded, to campaign for free trade. |
| 1843 - Oct 1 | | News of the World founded by John Browne Bell
at 3d. Newsagents at first refused to handle it at such a low price. |
| 1846 | | Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directory founded, later
Benn's Media Directory. |
| 1846 - Jan 21 | | Daily News launched, edited by Charles Dickens. |
| 1850 - May 5 | 1967 | Reynold's Weekly Newspaper launched. Became
Sunday Citizen in 1962. |
| 1851 | | Reuters News Agency opens in London. |
| 1855 - June 29 | | Daily Telegraph launched. |
| Date of event | Name, and notes |
|---|
| 1709 | First Copyright Act. |
| 1712, Aug | Stamp duty imposed on newspapers advertisements. |
| 1738 | All parliamentary reporting suppressed. |
| 1763 | First open reporting of Parliament since June 1738, in the
North Briton under John Wilkes, who was prosecuted for seditious libel. |
| 1771 | Press wins the right to report Parliamentary proceedings. |
| 1806 - Jan 10 | First use of illustration in the Times: Nelson's
funeral. |
| 1814, Nov. 24 | First issue of a newspaper - the Times -
printed on a (Koenig) power press. |
| 1815 | Stamp Duty increased to 4d per sheet. |
| 1832 | First recorded British newspaper cartoon, published in Bell's
New Weekly Messenger. |
| 1844, Aug 6 | The first story based on a telegraphed report is printed in
the Times: birth of Queen's son at Windsor. |
| 1848 | William Howard Russell joins staff of the Times. He will soon
become first professional war correspondent. |
| 1848 | First W.H. Smith station bookstall opened, at Euston. |
| 1853, Aug | Abolition of advertisement tax. |
| 1855, July 1 | Repeal of the Stamp Act opens the way for cheap,
mass-circulation newspapers and modern newspaper design in terms of spacing
and headlines. |
