Courtesy of TheGuardian.com
The father of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin had been arrested after being found with a stolen horse. Cannon fire rang out in St Petersburg to mark a Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire. In America, four families had been killed in Virginia in clashes with Native Americans. Meanwhile, a horse fell in the Thames at Westminster, nearly causing a drowning.
Welcome to the pages of the Belfast News Letter, where updates on the French Revolution run alongside adverts for brandy and the American Declaration of Independence was reported as a contemporary event.
The 3 October copy has a special place in newspaper history – it stakes a claim as the oldest surviving edition of the world’s longest continuously published English language daily newspaper. In fact, the paper is so old that it predates the UK’s switch to the Gregorian calendar. The edition would have been published on 14 October according to modern dating.
The News Letter’s coverage of the most momentous events of the past three centuries can now be accessed free by anyone with a library pass or an online subscription (Google: Belfast News Letter), after the completion of a project to digitise its surviving editions. Everything from the Crimean war to the Troubles in Northern Ireland are covered.
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