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Written Down — bonus #24 answers
Theme: Written Down
Starting event: Johannes Gutenberg prints the Bible that bears his name (1455)
The full timeline
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868Printing
The Diamond Sutra is printed in China, the oldest dated printed book to survive
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1440Printing
Gutenberg builds a printing press with movable metal type in Mainz
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1455PrintingStarting event
Johannes Gutenberg prints the Bible that bears his name
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1605News
Johann Carolus begins publishing what is regarded as the first newspaper
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1710
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1751
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1755Dictionaries
Samuel Johnson publishes his dictionary of the English language
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1799Writing
The Rosetta Stone is found in Egypt, and with it a way into hieroglyphs
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1824
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1843Printing
Richard Hoe's rotary press prints newspapers far faster than a flatbed could
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1868
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1884Dictionaries
The first volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary begin to appear
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1886Typesetting
Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype lets one operator set a whole line of type
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1904
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1917News
The Pulitzer Prizes are established by the will of a newspaper publisher
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1926Books
A subscription club begins posting a chosen book to members each month
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1932
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1938
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1939
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2001
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2007