First English Daily Newspaper
March 11, 1702
The Daily Courant, a single broadsheet printed above the White Hart tavern near Fleet Bridge, became London's first daily newspaper. Its anonymous editor promised only foreign news and no comments or conjectures. The press had discovered that yesterday's event could be today's commodity. The paper ran for thirty-three years and helped establish the rhythms of daily journalism that still govern the trade.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.