When were newspapers started?

Newspaper is the most effective medium of communication in the mordern world today. Millions of newspapers are published in the world. Do you know when newspapers were started and how much effort did it take to bring them to the present form?

According to recorded facts, the first newspaper of the world was published in China around 1000 years ago. Its name was 'Tching Pao' which meant 'news of the capital'. The government used to communicate main events to the public with its help.The second newspaper of the world was the 'Acta Diurna'which meant 'Daily Happenings'. These two arethe oldest newspapers as per recorded history.
The first daily newspaper of the world was the 'Morning Post' which started in London in 1772. After this, another daily newspaper 'The London Times', started its publication from London itself and it is published even today.
The first newspaper of India-'The Bengal Gazette' started on 29th January 1780. Later its name was changed to 'The English Man'. Today, in addition to those published in English, newspapers are published in all the Indian languages.
Today, around 500 million people in the world purchase newspapers everyday. More than eight thousand newspapers are published in Russia alone. They are read by 120 to 130 million people. Russia publishes the largest number of newspapers in the world.
The first newspaper to cross the one million circulation mark was 'Les Petit Journal' of Paris which did it in 1886. In 1970 the 'Ashashi Shimbun'-a newspaper of Japan reached the circulation of 10 millions. The biggest edition of one single newspaper was taken out by the  'New York Times' on October 10, 1971, having 15 sections, 972 pages and 102 million lines of advertisements. It weighed 3.5 kg and was priced at 50 cents.