3874 entries. Last updated May 21, 2013.

1400 to 1450 Timeline Outline

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This drawing, from Kyeser's 'Bellifortis,' depicts Alexander the Great holding a rocket. The legend of Alexander was a personal facination for Kyeser. (View Larger)
The First 15th Century Illustrated Treatise on Technology
(1402 – 1405)

Casting 100,000 Pieces of Copper Printing Types
(1403)

The seal of the Guild of Stationers.
The Guild of Stationers
(1403)

A page of the Yongle Encyclopedia. (View Larger)
An Encyclopedia in 11,095 Volumes
(1403 – 1408)

Several pages from the indecipherable Voynich Manuscript. (View Larger)
Uncrackable Code or Great Written Hoax?
(Circa 1404 – 1438)

The First Dated Example of Poggio's Humanistic Script
(1408)

A facsimile version of the Squarcialupi Codex. (View Larger)
The Largest Primary Source for Music of the Trecento
(Circa 1410 – 1415)

The De Virga world map. (View Larger
Medieval Mappa Mundi, Stolen during an Auction
(1411 – 1419)

Folio 64v of Les Très Riches Heures, for the month of June. (View Larger)
The Most Famous Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscript
(Circa 1413 – 1416)

Earliest Known European Textile Printer
(1417)

The Rediscovery of Lucretius's De rerum natura
(1417 – 1473)

The Earliest Dated European Woodblock Print
(1418)

Printing Playing Cards
(1418)

Technological Manuscripts by the Sienese Archimedes
(1419 – 1449)

An image of Moses from the Book of Leviticus: folio 141v of a manuscript bible produced in the workshop of the scribe Diebold Lauber. (View Larger)
Serial Workshop Production of Medieval Manuscripts
(Circa 1420 – 1470)

Folio 2r of Bellicorum instrumentorum liber, showing an 'Oriental siege machine.' (View Larger)
One of the Earliest Surviving Italian Manuscripts on Technology and War…
(Circa 1420)

The Largest and Finest Collection of Greek Texts before Bessarion's
(December 15, 1423)

The Aztec Calendar Stone. (View Larger)
The Aztec Calendar Stone
(1427 – 1479)

MS 2923 of the Schoyen collection: the collected works of T'ang Liu, printed in Chinese with moveable type in Seoul, 1438. (View Larger)
A Bronze Type Font of 200,000 Pieces
(1434)

Page 145b of A Mariner's Knowledge, by Michael of Rhodes, depicting a completed galley ship.
The Earliest Known Treatise on Shipbuilding
(1434)

A rendition of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian by the Master of Playing Cards, preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (View Larger)
The Earliest Known Artist to Produce Copperplate Engravings
(1435 – 1455)

A portrait of Louis III by Johann David Werl.
Origins of the Bibliotheca Palatina
(Circa 1436)

A statue of Leon Lattista Alberti in the Uffizi museum. (View Larger)
The Earliest Grammar of a Romance Language
(1437 – 1441)

Description of Textile Printing and Manuscript Illumination as Well as Painting
(July 31, 1437)

Johannes Gutenberg. (View Larger)
Gutenberg Begins Experimentation on Printing
(1438 – 1444)

A depiction of the Donation of Constantine in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, by an artist of Raphael's studio. (View Larger)
Lorenzo Valla Proves that the Donation of Constantine is a Forgery
(1440)

From About 1440 -1470 the Production of Manuscript Books Increased; From 1471 to 1490, with the Increase of Printed Book Production, Manuscript Book Production Declined
(Circa 1440 – 1475)

Card Printing in Venice Has Outside Competition
(1441)

"The Imitation of Christ"
(1441 – 1473)

Origins of the Three-Period Framework of History: Ancient, Middle Ages, and Modern
(Circa 1442)

The First Theoretical Work on Architecture Written During the Italian Renaissance
(1443 – 1452)

The library at the Dominican Convent of San Marco, designed by Michelozzo. (View Larger)
The First "Public" Library in Renaissance Europe
(1444)

The New Archaeology of the Renaissance
(1444 – 1446)

The entrance to the Biblioteca Malatestiana. (View Larger)
The First European Civic Library
(1447 – 1452)

The First Concordance of the Hebrew Bible
(1448)

The First Historical Geography
(1448 – 1458)

Henry VI. (View Larger)
The First English Patent for an Invention
(1449)