YEAR                     EVENT

-3500                Cuniform alphabet is used by Sumarians.

-2400                The earliest papyrus scroll with writing that survived.

-950                  Scrolls and writing tools are made with leather.

-650                  Scrolls first arrive at Greese directly from Egypt.

-213                  Emperor of China, Chin Tain Shihuangti tried to wipe out all books.

-150                  Paper is first made in China.

-100                  The book had changed from scroll to a codex form.

-39                    At the Liberttas Temple the first public library in Rome is made by Asinius Pollio.

104                   China discovered paper making around this time.

750                   Manuscript illumination at Canterbury School was active until 13th century.

800                   At the Colombian Monastery of Long, the book of Kells was written.

868                   In China the the first book was printed with paper.

1041                 China used books with movable type.

1276                 Italy's first paper mill.

1418                 Woodcut is known as the oldest specimen.

1450                 Printing in color.

1498                 In Venice, Ottaviano Petrucci printed music with movable type.

1512                 Gerard Mercator founded a globe and map business.
 

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