Printed books in universal use across Europe
c.1480 · Event
Printing presses now operate in over a hundred European towns and the printed book is in universal use; cumulative output passes ~20 million volumes by 1500, the close of the incunabula period.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Renaissance, Master
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
Around 1480
- The Reformation (1517)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)