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618
China: block printing/xylography (wood blocks)
Had minimal impact on Chinese society at the time compared to the invention of the printing press in the West. -
1041
China: cast tin letters
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1400
Europe: block books for large audiences, hand-written books for elite
Block book: short book up to 50 leaves, block printed, illustrations and text, aimed at popular audience. -
1450
Europe: invention of the printing press
Loose cast letters... Gutenberg or Laurensz Coster van Haarlem? -
1473
Dirk Martens returns to Aalst and starts a printing press
He published 50+ books by Erasmus -
Strasbourg, Antwerp: Nieuwe Tydinghen
1605: Abraham Verhoeven starts printing news prints (every 10 days) 1620: Nieuwe Tyninghen becomes a monopoly in the Duchy of Brabant. -
England: First English Newspaper, Oxford Gazette
First English Newspapers
1666: London Gazette -
Industrial revolution: faster newspaper development
1750 onwards -
Declaration of Independence: Freedom of Press
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1789 French Revolution
A struggle to found new values based on the Enlightenment after divine right absolutism, freedom of the press, education.