1700 to 1750 Timeline Outline

The Beauchamp-Feuillet Dance Notation
(1700)

The Foundation of Occupational Medicine and Ergonomics
(1700)

Reflecting Surrealism Centuries Before Surrealism Became Fashionable
(1701 – 1725)

Popol Vuh, The Book of the People, Known from a Single Manuscript
(1701 – 2012)

England's First Daily Newspaper
(March 11, 1702)

Newton's Opticks
(1704)

The First English Encyclopedia Arranged in Alphabetical Order
(1704 – 1710)

The First "Successful" Newspaper in North America
(April 24, 1704)

The First Books Printed in Arabic in the Middle East
(1706)

The First Book Auction Conducted in Paris for Which a Catalogue was Printed
(July – December 1706)

The Three Primary Colors
(1708)

The Word Palaeography Coined
(1708)

The Earliest Technical Manual on Bookbinding
(1708)

The Statute of Anne: The First Copyright Statute
(1709)

First Description of the Stepped-Drum Calculator
(1710)

Perhaps the Earliest Treatise on the Typography of a Nation
(1710)

The First Atmospheric Steam Pumping Engine
(1710 – 1712)

First Publication of Newton's Early Writings on the Calculus
(1711)

Newton - Leibniz Dispute over Invention of the Calculus
(1712)

The First Bibliography of Americana
(1713)

Early Government Incentive for Scientific Research
(November 12, 1713 – 1714)

Famous Proofreaders and Press Correctors
(1716)

Lombe's Silk Throwing Mill: The First Factory
(1718 – 1721)

Invention of Color Printing
(1719)

Possibly the First Color-Printed Mezzotint Published
(1721)

The First Major French Manual on Printing and the First Book on Book Design
(1723)

One of the Earliest Applications of Statistics to a Socio-Medical Problem
(1723)

The First Global View of Religion
(1723 – 1743)

First Published Description of Color Printing
(1725)

A Loom Controlled by Perforated Paper Tape
(1725)

Theory of Annuities
(1725)

First Book Entirely Devoted to Marine Science and First Oceanographic Study of a Single Region
(1725)

Baroque Counterpoint
(1725)

Possibly the Earliest Reference to a Fictional Device that Resembles a Modern Computer
(1726)

To Protect the More than 4000 Manuscript Copyists of Constantinople
(1727)

Invention of Punched Cards?
(1728)

The First Book Printed by Muslims Using Movable Type
(1729)

The First Natural History of North American Flora and Fauna
(1729 – 1747)

The First Illustrated Book Printed by Muslims
(1729)

Complex Enough to Provide a Credible Imitation of Life
(1731 – 1738)

The First General-Interest Periodical and the First to Use the Word "Magazine" to Indicate a Storehouse of Knowledge
(January 1731)

Founding the Library Company of Philadelphia
(July 1, 1731)

Systema Naturae
(1735)

The First Use of Full Color Printing by the Three-Color Process in a Medical or Scientific Book
(1736 – 1741)

The Problem of the Konigsberg Bridges: The Birth of Network Science
(1736)

The Point System or Typographic Unit
(1737)

The First "Full-Fledged Antiquarian Bookseller's Catalogue"
(1738)

The First Periodical Published in English on Rare Books & Manuscripts
(1738)

Cruden's Concordance, Possibly the Largest Task of Compilation Ever Undertaken by One Man
(1738)

The First Automaton to Simulate Biological Processes
(1739 – 1742)

The First Continent-Wide Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(1739)

Incunabulum of Printing from Stereotype Plates
(1739)

The First Exhaustive Manual on Bookbinding
(1741 – 1753)

The First Magazine Published in North America
(January 1741)

Proving the Need for a Healthy and Industrious Population
(1742)

One of the Earliest Histories of a Science
(1742)

Foundation of the Greatest Museums of Florence
(February 18, 1743)

The First Periodical Written for Women by a Woman
(April 1744 – May 1746)

The First Printed Book Specifically for the Amusement of Children: No Copies of the First Edition Survive
(June 18, 1744)

The First Correct Life Tables
(1746 – 1760)

The Cool, Elegant Aesthetic of Anatomy
(1747)

Probably the Most-Widely Read English Cookery Book of the 18th Century
(1747)

Mechanical and Industrial Arts of 18th Century France
(1749 – 1814)