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The World Association of Newspapers has accepted evidence produced by one of the world’s leading printing museums that 2005 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the first newspaper in print. Scholars have generally put the date at 1609, the year of the first preserved editions.

Did you know...

1. The first newspaper is said to be the Strasbourg Relation, in the early seventeenth century.
2. The first successful English daily, The Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735.
3. The first newspaper in France was published in 1631, La Gazette
4. The first newspaper in Portugal, A Gazeta da Restauração, was published in 1641 in Lisbon.
5. Opregte Haarlemsche Courant from Haarlem, first published in 1656, is the oldest paper still printed.

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