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This chronology covers -
800
800 first movable type printing system uses clay characters
808 woodblocks used to print text of Diamond Sutra
scroll
868 woodblocks used to print paginated books
in China
983
printed collection of Buddhist texts in China runs to
250,000 pages
1000
1006 supernova
1023 paper money printed in China
1035 paper recycled in Japan
1066 Westminster Abbey opened
1066 regime change in England
1085 metal type is used to print books in Korea
1086 Domesday Book
1088 University of Bologna founded
1095 First Crusade
1100
1116 stitched bindings for books in China
1140 paper made in Egypt using recycled mummy-wrappers
1155 map of western China is the oldest known printed
map
1200
1200 contrary to predictions, world doesn't end
1210 St Francis founds Franciscans
1215 Magna Carta
1236 Mongol empire issues paper money
1255 papermill in Genoa
1259 Provisions of Westminster
1267 Statute of Marlborough
1271 free daily newspapers and mass-circulation booklets
in China
1282 paper watermarks produced in Italy
1285 spectacles invented in Italy
1298 Travels of Marco Polo published
1300
1309 first recorded use of paper in England
1348 papermill in Troyes
1351 Ayutthaya founded
1390 papermill in Nuremberg
1397 oldest surviving Korean text printed from movable
type
1400
1423 Europeans start using Chinese method of block printing
text
1450 newsletters begin circulating in Europe
1451 Gutenberg uses press
to print poem and Papal indulgences
1452 metal plates used in printing in Europe
1453 Mehmet II conquers Constantinople
1455 Gutenberg publishes the Bible
1455 discovery of Tacitus' Germania
1455 Chinese abandon paper money after 7 years of hyperinflation
1464 French king establishes postal
service
1466 Alberti's polyalphabetic cipher
1476 Caxton produces first book printed in English
1477 first handbill advertisement in England
1492 Columbus misses China, discovers America
1493 earliest known etching
1494 papermill in Hertford
1494 Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica popularises
double-entry bookkeeping
1494 Pietro Bembo's de Aetna features first printed
semicolon
1499 earliest known printed page numbers, in Perotti's
Cornucopia
1500
1501 italic characters used in Aldus Manutius's Virgil
1508 earliest known German coloured woodcut, by Hans Burgkmair
the Elder
1509 Pacioli's De viribus quantitatis
1513 Machiavelli's Il Principe
1516 Erasmus' The Education of a Christian Prince
- "In a free state, tongues too should be free"
1519 Christoph Froschauer founds printery in Zurich
1521 Cambridge University Press established
1522 Luther's translation of New Testament published
1527 Sack of Rome
1531 Emblematum liber published in Augsburg
1534 first Frankfurt Book Fair
1537 Ordonnance de Montpellier of François
I of France
1539 Pablos sets up press in Mexico City
1540 Recorde invents the equal (=) sign
1543 Copernicus's On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres
1545 Garamond designs printing typeface
1545 Venetian Council of Ten demands that booksellers
secure documentary proof that works are printed with author's
permission
1550
1550 wallpaper arrives in Europe from China
1557 de Vitoria's De Indis Noviter Inventis
1559 Pope Paul IV issues Index
of Forbidden Books
1559 Plantin's Polyglot Bible
1560 camera obscura allows precise tracing of an image
1565 lead pencil
1566 one of the world's first newspapers, Notizie Scritte,
in Venice
1566 Manutius' Orthographiae Ratio
1569 Mercator projection
1570 Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum atlas
1571 Paul IV issues first formal Index Librorum Prohibitorum
1572 John Day introduces Roman type into England
1576 Bodin's Les Six Livres de la République
1582 Gregorian Calendar
1587 Oxford University Press founded
1593 Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
1598 Gentili's De Jure Belli
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