What was the first newspaper in the world? When and where was it born?

The printing of the "Request" in 1605 brought the newspaper four years earlier.

A request printed in 1605 was recently discovered by the Gutenberg Printing Museum in Germany, one of the world's most famous printing museums, and the rare artifacts in this collection confirm that the world's first newspapers appeared before 1605. This conclusion is at least four years ahead of the date of the earliest newspapers in the current writings.

In the current textbooks on foreign journalism, the world's first printed newspaper is generally marked by the newspapers of European countries that appeared in the early 17th century. For example, the Antwerp newspaper in the Netherlands (Nieuwe Tijdinghen (1609), the German newspaper Circular (Relationoder Zeitung (1609), the English weekly news (its full name is the weekly news from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, the West Rhine, France and the Netherlands in 1621), and the French newspaper La Gazette (1631). This is confirmed by the frequent print newspapers published in some European countries in the early 17th century, and the sources** are from the Encyclopædia Britannica (1980 edition, vol. 15, p. 236).

Therefore, it is generally believed that the world's first newspaper was born in 1609.

The Gutenberg Printing Museum in Mainz, Germany, is one of the most authoritative printing museums in the world and is home to the world's first printing press. Recently, the museum informed the World Press Association that the "birthplace" of the German newspaper Relation had been found in the small town of Strasbourg, France. The place is now part of France and was then called "Deutsche Rheinland".

The Secretary-General of the World Association of Newspapers, Mr. Bowing, was immediately overjoyed to learn of this information. "The evidence is beyond doubt, and we're all very excited," he said. ”

Newspapers have gone through a long history from their birth to the present day, and in 60 B.C., the ancient Roman statesman Caesar put the city of Rome as well as the country.

New Youth. The events that took place are written on white wooden boards and are advertised to the citizens. This is the oldest newspaper in the world. In China, in the 2nd century, the Di Bao of the Western Han Dynasty was the earliest newspaper in China.

In 1605, the Chronicle of the News was published in Antwerp, the Netherlands, as the first printed newspaper to be issued, and it has been 400 years since then.

The Frankfurter Press, founded in 1615, is generally regarded as the first "real" newspaper because it had a fixed name, was published regularly once a week, and printed several pieces of news on each sheet instead of a single piece of news (although the newspaper was printed on one side).