1650 to 1700 Timeline Outline

The First Book on Librarianship in English
(1650)

Probably the Most Influential of Historical Chronologies: The World Was Created in 4004 BCE
(1650 – 2012)

Encrypted Notice of the Discovery of Saturn's Ring
(1656)

Invention of the Pendulum Clock, Increasing Accuracy Sixty Fold
(1656)

Saturn's Ring
(1659)

The Longest Series of Monthly Temperature Observations
(1659)

The First Published Illustrated Catalogue of an Art Collection
(1660)

Possibly the Earliest Model for Machine Translation
(1661)

Attack on Air Pollution
(1661)

The First Complete Bible Published in the Western Hemisphere
(1661 – 1663)

Demography & Vital Statistics
(1662)

Working Around the English Monopoly on Solid Graphite
(1662)

Mechanistic View of the Human Body
(1662)

The First Book on the Appreciation of Prints and the First Description of Mezzotint
(1662)

The First Work in English on the Technique of Engraving and Etching
(1662)

Argument for Forest Management
(1664)

The Earliest Bibliography of Bibliographies
(1664)

The First English Publication Entirely on Printing
(1664)

Graphic Portrayal of the Hitherto Unknown Microcosm
(1665)

The First Scientific Journal
(January 5, 1665)

The Oldest Continuous Journal of an Academy of Science
(March 6, 1665)

The First Book on Print Collecting
(1666)

The First Census in North America
(1666)

The First Anthology on Libraries and Library Science
(1666)

The First Book on the Detection of Forged Documents
(1666)

The Great Fire of London
(September 2 – September 5, 1666)

The First Medical or Scientific Publication in North America, Known from a Single Surviving Copy
(1667)

Construction of Samuel Pepys's Bookshelves -- Among the Earliest Extant
(August 17, 1667)

The Mathematical Organ
(1668)

A Universal Language Based on a Classification Scheme or Ontology, and a Universal System of Measurement
(1668)

The Foundation of Obstetrics as a Science
(1668)

De bibliothecae incendio
(1670)

The First Print Surviving from New England
(1670)

More Affordable and Easier to Use than the Pascaline
(1671)

First Book on a Calculating Machine Published in English
(1672)

Leibnitz Invents the Stepped Drum Gear Calculator
(1673 – 1710)

The Mathematical Analysis of Pendulum Motion
(1673)

The World's Oldest Auction House
(1674)

The Beginning of Palaeography
(1675)

Laws of Book Production and the Book Trade
(1675)

The First Bibliography of Rare Books
(1676)

The First Book on the Classification of Birds Without Respect to Geographical Boundaries
(1676)

The First Book Auction in England
(October 31, 1676)

The First Map Engraved and Published in New England
(1677)

First Published Rules for Archival Operation?
(1678)

The First Doctoral Degree is Awarded to a Woman
(June 25, 1678)

Leibniz on Binary Arithmetic
(March 15, 1679 – 1705)

The World's First Postage Stamp from the First Postal Service to Allow Registration and Pre-Payment
(April 1 – December 1680)

Foundation of Palaeography and Diplomatics
(1681)

The First Scientific Book Written by a Native Latin American to be Published in the Western Hemisphere
(1681)

The First Comprehensive Printing Manual
(1683 – 1684)

What the Journeyman Printer Needs for Ready Reference
(1684)

First Publication on the Differential Calculus
(1684)

The First Hieroglyphic Bible for Children
(1684 – 1692)

Aristotle's Masterpiece
(1684)

Anatomy in the Style of Dutch Still-Life Painting
(1685)

Locke's Method of Indexing Commonplace Books
(1685 – 1706)

Newton's Principia Mathematica
(1687)

The First Reading Primer Designed for the American Colonies
(1687 – 1690)

The First Attempt to Collect and Organize the Literature of Early Printing
(1688)

The First Independently Published Bibliography of Mathematics
(1688)

The First Paper Mill in the United States
(1690)

Political Arithmetick
(1690)

The Wave or Pulse Theory of Light
(1690)

The First Newspaper Published in North America, Suppressed after a Single Issue
(September 25, 1690)

The First Map of All of New Spain
(1691 – 1694)

The Bibliotheque Nationale Opens to the Public
(1692)

The Breslau Tables
(1693)

The First Book Catalogue Published in America
(1693)

The End of Pre-Publication Censorship Stimulates Newspapers and Other Publishing
(1695)

The First Licensed Woman Printer in North America Was Illiterate
(May 13, 1696)

The First Country-Wide Printed Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(1697)

The First Printed Facsimile of a Manuscript
(1697)

First Public Lending Library in North America
(1698)

Baroque Anatomy and Plagiarism (?)
(1698)

There Are 150 Paper Mills in England
(1699)

A Universal Bibliography but Only for "A and B"
(1699)

The Structural Relationships between the Body of Man and the Anthropoid Ape
(1699)