Boston News-Letter is first published.

Published by Boston postmaster John Campbell, it is printed by Bartholomew Green from a shop near today’s 480 Washington Street (450-Harris). A one-sheet weekly, it is Boston’s second newspaper and the first newspaper to publish regularly in the British Colonies. Its contents are initially made up of news, rumors, gossip, and items clipped from month-old English newspapers. It becomes the Boston Weekly News-Letter, and New England Chronicle in 1715, and subsequently the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter, a staunchly Loyalist newspaper. The last issue appears on February 29, 1776.