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The London Gazette is the oldest surviving newspaper

It has been published continuously in Britain since 7 November 1665 The Gazette appeared during the Great Plague, when the court had moved to Oxford in 1665, and it has never stopped publishing since. It is not a conventional newspaper but the official record of state notices, including honours, bankruptcies and changes of name. Its first issue was a single sheet of official announcements, and it remains in print and online today. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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The Gazette

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It has been published continuously in Britain since 7 November 1665. The figure is taken from The Gazette, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.