Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-06-25
CHRONOLOGY or PRINTING.

Previous to tho year 1000 print
ing from wooden blocks was said to
be known and practiced in China
but the most authentic information
as to the art of which we have re-
cord, is given below and may be yer.
fled.
l400-Playing cards first printed
from blocks, in Europe.
1440-John Genesteish, surnamed
Gutenberg, first prints, in an alpha
betical language from wooden blocks,
which served only for the work
printed.
!445-John Meydenbuch joins his
wealth to the skill of Gutenberg
and John Faustus, who were the first
printers. About this time Faustus
invents movable types of metal, re-
celving assistance from his son-in-
law, Schoeffer, who devised the pun
cheons, MATRICES and moulds for cast
ing them
l462-Faustus prints the Vulgate
Bible, in two volumns, which he sold
at first as high as five hundred
crowns per copy. Having reduced
the price to thirty crows, he was sc,
riously adjudged to be in league with
the devil, and would have been sac>
rificed for witchcraft had he not ex-
planned his art.
i466-Faustus prints "Cicero Off,
Gals, and soon after dies.
1473-Greek first printed.
1474-Frst printing in England.
1475-First Almanac printed.
l495-Wilkin de Worde prints the
first book on paper manufactured in
England:
1499-First work of geographical
nature printed in Spain.
1501-Inquisition at Venice to
check the diffusion OF knowledge
through the press.
l522-Hebrew printed in Germany.
l53l-Gazetteers first printed in
Venice and so called from a coin for
which they were sold, Gazcttea.
1537-The first book on longitude,
written by Nonius, and printed in
Portugal
1554-The first alphabet for the
deaf aud dunn, with instructions,
printed in Spain,
1571-Printers in Paris, as a mark
of respect authorized to wear swords.
1577-Book of diohantinc Algebra
first printed.
English Mercury" a pam
phlet printed; tho first attempt at
periodical literature.
1603-First Decimal Arithmetic
printed in Flanders.
1612-King James, the present
version Of the Bible, which had been
seven years in the hands of transla>
tors, printed.
1615-Napier's Logrithms printed.
1639-Printing at Cambridge.
Mass being the first attempt within
tho limits of the United States.
I66I-"The Public Intelligencer''
by Robert L'Estrado, the first ncws-
paper publisher in England, of which
a few numbers are still extant.
l665-First Treatise on Insurance
printed.
1705-Tho "Boston News Letter.
the first paper within the present
limits Of the United States, printed
by John Campbell, a Scotchman.
1706-Dr. Franklin, the great
American printer, philosopher, and
statesman, born in Boston.
1709-American "weckly Mercu-
ry'the grst paper in Philadelphia
printed.
1727-The "New York Gazette"
the first paper in the State, printed
and published in June.
1729-"Maryland Gazette" printed.
1731-Printing in South Carolina,
1732-First printing on paper
made within the limits of the United
States.
1737-Fist printing in georgia.
1775-Johnson's Dictionary printed
in England.
1771-Printing in Louisiana.
1776-Fifty-six newspapers print
ed in the United States.
1797-First printing in Mississippi.
1799-Tho mississippi Gazette"
printed in Natchez.
1S14-Printing in Alabama.
1S28-Nine hundred newspapers
printed in the United States.
1936-Thrteen hundred newspa>
pers in the United States and Terri
tories and District of Colnmbia.-
From that time to the present, the
increase of newspc pers and books
printed has scarcely a limit.