Source - printinghistory.org/timeline/
1751 Diderot's Encyclopédie published in France.
1752 Canada's first newspaper the Halifax Gazette in Nova Scotia.
1755 A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. The Printer's Grammar by John Smith.
1757 Wove paper developed by James Whatman for Baskerville's Virgil.
1764 Manuel Typographique by Pierre-Simon Fournier. A treatise on the history of French types and printing.
1768 Encyclopædia Britannica
1775 Common Sense by Thomas Paine. Wood engraving developed by Thomas Bewick. Kibyoshi, Japanese picture books, birth of the graphic novel.
1776 Declaration of Independence printed July 4 by John Dunlap.
1780 A typographic point system developed by (and later named for) François-Ambroise Didot. Based on the pre-metric French inch.
1786 Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages.
1790 William Nicholson (1753–1815) patents cylindrical printing press, London.
1793 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake.
1796 Lithography invented by Alois Senefelder. Binny & Ronaldson type foundry established in Philadelphia.
1798 Giambattista Bodoni designs a typeface in Parma (Italy).
1803 An all iron hand press built by Charles Mahon, third Earl of Stanhope. Fourdrinier continuous web papermaking machine.
1803 Fourdrinier continuous web papermaking machine.
1805 R. Hoe & Company, a printing press manufacturer, established in New York. Carbon paper developed.
1806 Canada's first French language newspaper Le Canadien published in Quebec City until 1810.
1810 Composition ink rollers developed in London to replace ink balls. The History of Printing in America by Isaiah Thomas.
1813 George Clymer develops the Columbian printing press, a cast-iron hand press featuring a lever, which replaced the simple screw mechanism for lowering the platen. It is distinguished by its bald eagle counterweight at top.
1814 Steam-powered, cylinder printing press, built by Frederick Koenig and Conrad Bauer installed at The Times in London.
1816 Sans-serif type shown in a specimen by William Caslon IV.
1818 Manual Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni, posthumously published by his widow in Parma. Stephenson Blake typefoundry established in Sheffield, England.
1820s Photoengraving process emerges. Albion press iron hand press developed by Richard Whittaker Cope. Its simple toggle action is an improvement on the complex lever-mechanism of the Columbian press and the Stanhope press. American Daniel Treadwell developed the first bed and platen press powered by a treadle (London).
1821 Commercial lithographic firm established by William Armand Genet Barnet and Isaac Doolittle.
1823 Newly-founded Republic of Mexico establishes a Government Printing Office in Mexico City, inside the National Palace.
1824 Books bound in cloth issued by William Pickering in London.
1825 Typographia by Thomas Curson Hansard. Louis John Pouchée, a London typefounder, produces ornamented types now regarded among the best of their kind.
1826 Daniel Fanshaw, NYC, arguably the first "production printer of the machine age." Using Treadwell presses, he held the contracts for the American Bible Society and the American Tract Society. Active till about 1846." Paper first made in the Toronto area from rags in by Eastwood and Skinner.
