History of Printing Source - printinghistory.org/timeline/
1501 Italic type and small format books introduced by Aldus Manutius in Venice.
1514 Book of Hours printed in Arabic types in Fano (Italy).
1520–23 Babylonian Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg in Venice.
1529 Champfleury published by Geoffroy Tory in Paris. It promoted grammar, punctuation and letterform proportion.
1530 Claude Garamond designs a Roman typeface in Paris.
1537–38 Paganino and Alessandro Paganini produced the first printed edition of the Qur'an in Arabic (Venice).
1539 Juan Pablos (Giovanni Paoli) became the first printer in North America (Mexico City).
1545 Claude Garamond designs his typeface; forms first independent foundry.
1563 Printing in France forbidden without royal permission under penalty of death.
1568–1573 Biblia Polyglotta printed in five languages by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp.
1569 Mercator's world map, his projection was a boon to navigation.
1584 The University Press at Cambridge begins operation, and has done so continuously since. It lays claim to being both the world's oldest university press in and the oldest printing & publishing house.
circa 1600 Spain outlaws papermaking in its New World colonies.
1605 German language newspaper Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Strasbourg).
1611 Publication of the first edition of the King James Bible
1623 Shakespeare's First Folio published.
1639 The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in the American colonies (Cambridge).
1642 Mezzotint, the first tonal method to produce half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques such as cross-hatching or stippleling. It is achieved by roughening the plate with thousands of little dots made by a metal tool with small teeth called a "rocker."
1665 The Oxford Gazette, first regularly published English newspaper. Charles II moved his family (and the newspaper) back to London in 1666.
1683 Mechanick Exercises on The Whole Art of Printing by Joseph Moxon, the first manual on printing.
1690 Papermaking in America (Philadelphia). Newspaper published in America, Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick (Boston).
1692 Romain du Roi, the first produced type based rational design. Influenced the later transitional typefaces of Pierre Simon Fournier and John Baskerville.
1698 Public library opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
1702 Daily newspaper in England, the Daily Courant.
1710 Statute of Anne regulates copyright in Great Britain.
1725 Coloritto by Jacob Christoph Le Blon. Described a RYB three-color printing process.
1728 Stereotype printing plates developed. It was means of reproducing composed type forms to prevent wear of original types and free them for other use.
1731 Library Company of Philadelphia, first American subscription library, founded by Benjamin Franklin and fellow members of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement.
1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1735 Publisher John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel in colonial New York City, setting the legal standard.
1743 Joh. Enschedé began manufacturing type in Haarlem (The Netherlands).
1750 John Baskerville designs a typeface in Cambridge, England.
