1550 to 1600 Timeline Outline

The Inquistion Publishes its First List of Censored Works
(1554)

The First Book Printed in Civilité Types
(1557)

Concentrating the Entire Printing Business in the Members of the Stationers Company
(May 4, 1557)

Index Librorum Prohibitorum
(1559)

Who Discovered the Pulmonary Circulation?
(1559)

Construction of the Ufizzi
(1560 – 1581)

Foundation of the First Scientific Society in the Renaissance
(1560 – 1578)

Classic of Mannerist Book Illustration and Printing
(June 28, 1560)

The Earliest Effort to Systematize Botanical Description; Discovery of Sulfuric Ether
(1561)

The Fallopian Tubes and Numerous Other Anatomical Discoveries
(1561)

The Earliest Surviving Books Printed in India from Movable Type
(July 2, 1561 – April 10, 1563)

The First Bio-Bibliography
(1562)

Destruction of the Maya Codices
(July 12, 1562)

The Eustachian Tube and Many Other Discoveries
(1563)

In an Expose of the Witchcraft Delusion, One of the First Scientific Approaches to the Study of Mental Illness
(1563)

The First Known Digraphic Substitution Cypher
(1563)

It is Forbidden for any French Printer to Print without Permission, under Penalty of being Hanged or Strangled
(September 10, 1563)

The First Catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair
(1564)

The First Dated Book Printed in Russia
(March 1, 1564)

A Working Sixteenth Century Automaton of a Monk
(Circa 1565)

The First Treatise on Museums
(1565)

Surrealist Portrait of the Librarian
(1566)

The Earliest Description of the Printing Process
(1567)

The First Book Printed in a Goidelic Language
(April 24, 1567)

The First Major Antiquarian Collection Assembled in England
(1568)

Images of Trades and Technologies
(1568)

Renaissance Goldsmithing and Sculpting
(1568)

The First Extended Series of Prints Attempting to Depict Great Events of the Recent Past
(1569 – 1570)

The First Medical Book Printed in the Western Hemisphere with the Earliest Illustrations of Plants Printed in the Western Hemisphere
(1570)

One of the Earliest Pop-Up Books
(1570)

Opening of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
(1571)

Possibly the First Printed Catalogue of Any Library
(1572)

One of the First Physicians to Draw the Illustrations for his Own Publications
(1572 – 1573)

Book Collector Matthew Parker Donates his Library
(1574)

The First Printed Catalogue of a Portion of a Public Library
(1575)

The First Published Reference to Cave Art
(1575)

The First Book Printed in the Middle East
(1577)

Classic of Mathematics and Typography
(1579)

First Complete Slavic Bible
(July 20, 1580 – August 12, 1581)

The Gregorian Calendar
(February 24, 1582)

The First Book Written by a European Printed in China
(1583 – 1584)

The Medici Press
(1584)

The First French National Bibliography
(1584)

Historia general del Piru
(Circa 1585 – 1616)

The Vigenere Cipher
(1586)

Consolidating and Amplifying the Regulation of Printing in England
(June 23, 1586)

Design and Construction of the Vatican Library
(Circa 1587)

Probably the Earliest Book with Illustrations by a Woman Artist
(1587 – 1592)

Renaissance Information Retrieval Device
(1588)

Perhaps the Most Important Private Collection of Manuscripts Ever Collected in England
(1588 – 1631)

Early Dance Notation
(1588)

Invention of the Stocking Frame Knitting Machine
(1589)

Moving the Obelisk
(1590)

The First Systematic Medical Bibliography
(1590)

The First Medical Subject Bibliography
(1591)

The Beginning of the Collection of Medical Statistics
(1592 – 1593)

The First Published Catalogue of any Institutional Library
(1595)

The First "Books in Print"
(1595)

The Oldest Surviving Work of Japanese Printing by Movable Type
(1598)

Model for Subject Bibliographies
(1598)

The First Book Devoted Exclusively to the Structure of an Animal Other than Man
(1598)

The Earliest Surviving Catalogue of a Book Auction
(July 6, 1599)