Lentorama 2022: It Happened on Easter

Day 22: Get your Sunday paper here!

While daily newspapers had been around for a while, up to 1780 no one had tried to put out a paper on Sunday. That changed on March 26, 1780, when the  British Gazette and Sunday Monitor put out its first edition.

If you want to know anything more than that about the paper, good luck. The best that I can tell the paper was published by an E. Johnson (though at least one site I found had his first initial as F) and published its last issue in 1805 (according to the Library of Congress). Though I also found a page that claimed it changed its name to The Times in 1788 (it didn't, that paper started in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register). 

Perhaps most galling (if you have gall to spare over this sort of thing) is that the Wikipedia page on the history of British newspapers claims that the world's first Sunday newspaper was The Observer. Whose Wikipedia page notes correctly that it's the world's oldest Sunday paper. Get this fixed, editors!