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Print Culture, and the Modern World - Important Dates
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| Year | Events |
| 594 AD onwards | Age of hand printing. Books in china were printed by rubbing paper against the inked surface of woodblocks |
| 768-770 AD | Import of hand printing technology to Japan from China |
| 868 AD | Publication of the Buddhist Diamond Sutra |
| 11th cnt. | Chinese paper reached Europe via the same route |
| 1295 | Marco Polo a great explorer returned to Italy and brought the knowledge of woodbload printing with him from after many years of exploration of china |
| 1430s | Johann Gutenberg developed the first known printing press |
| Early 15th cnt | Woodblocks were being wide used in Europe to print textiles, playing cards and religious pictures with simple, brief texts. |
| 16th cnt. | Manocchio a miler in Italy, began to read books that were available in his locality |
| 1508 | Introduction of mechanical printing |
| 1517 | Erasmus published his Adages. |
| 1517 | The religious reformer Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses. |
| mid 16th cnt. | first printing press came to Goa with portuguese missionaries |
| 1558 | The roman church began to maintain an index of prohibited books |
| 1579 | Catholic priest printed the first Tamil book at Cochin |
| early 18th cnt. | The periodical press developed |
| 1713 | The first Malyalam books was printed |
| 1780 | James Augustus Hickey began to edit the Bengal Gazette |
| 18th cnt. | Louise Sebastein Mercier, a novelist Of France declared :"The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and poublic opinion is the force that will sweep despotism away. |
| 1810 | The first printed edition of Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas came out |
| 1812 | Stories for children were published |
| 1821 | Manmohan Roy published the Sambad Kaumudi the first bengali newspaper and the Hindu orthodozy commissioned the Samachar Chandrika |
| 1822 | Tow persian newspapaers were published A gujarati newspaper, the Bombay Samachar made its appearance |
| mid 19th cnt. | Richard M. How of New York had perfected the power riven cylindrical press which was capable of printing 8000 sheets per hour |
| 1857 | A children's press, devoted to literature for children exclusively was set up in France |
| 1867 | Foundation of Deoband Seminary |
| 1871 | Jyotibi Phulke published Gulamgiri |
| 1876 | Rashshundari Debi published her autobiography Amar Jiban |
| 1877 | The Stateman was founded |
| 1878 | The vernacular press Act was passed |
| 1926 | Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain strogly condemned men for withholding education from women |
| 1938 | Kashibaba published Chotte aur Bade Ka Sawal |
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