List of the oldest newspapers

The earliest newspapers date to 17th century Europe when printed periodicals began rapidly to replace the practice of hand-writing newssheets.

[2] The oldest extant newspaper in the world still issued under its original title is the Gazzetta di Mantova, regularly published in Mantua, Italy, since 1664.

The first recorded attempt to found a newspaper in South Asia was by William Bolts, a Dutchman in the employ of the British East India Company in September 1768 in Calcutta.

The Company deported Bolts back to Europe before he could begin his newspaper.

[89] At the same time, then, as the printing press in the physical, technological sense was invented, 'the press' in the extended sense of the word also entered the historical stage.

A 1609 title page of the German Relation , the world's first newspaper founded in 1605 [ 1 ]
Avisa Relation oder Zeitung , the second-oldest newspaper
Title page of "Wöchentliche Zeitung aus mancherley Orten", Gdańsk 1619
Ordinari Post Tijdender , the world's oldest newspaper still published (since 1645, digital-only since 2007)
First issue of the New England Courant , the oldest newspaper in the Americas
The Southern Star / La Estrella del sur was the first newspaper edited in Montevideo , Uruguay , in 1807, while the city was under British rule .
Inaugural issue of the North China Herald , August 3, 1850.