THE PROLIFERATION OF PRINTING (supplement for ALPHABET Timeline)

(this supplementary information may help you organize your timeline, but it is not required)

EARLY PRINTING OFFICES (15th Century):

1461 Bamberg

1462 Strasbourg

1465 Subiaco

1466 Cologne

1468 Augsburg

1469 Venice

1470 Paris

1470 Toulouse

1473 Lyons

1473 Utrecht

1473 Ulm

1474 Valencia

1475 Bruges

1476 London

1477 Delft

By 1500 there were 1000 Printing offices in 240 cities in Europe.

12 million copies of 35 thousand books were in distribution.

(this is more than all of the books hand copied in the preceding 1.5 millennia)

approximate number of printing offices by year:

1455: 1

1470: 14

1480: 100

1500: 240

THE SPREAD OF PRINTING IN THE 16th Century:

1503 TURKEY

1508 ROMANIA

1515 GREECE

1534 MEXICO

1550 IRELAND

1553 RUSSIA

1556 INDIA

1563 PALESTINE

1584 PERU

1590 JAPAN

THE SPREAD OF PRINTING IN THE 17th Century:

1602 Philippines

1610 Lebanon

1610 Bolivia

1639 America

1640 Iran

1642 Finland

1643 Norway

1644 China