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Neolithic Period

Sumerians settle in Mesoptamia

Land contracts in cuneiform

Copper Tools & Weapons Used

Stonehenge

Bronze in general use

Temple of Ramses at Thebes

King Tutankamon

Iron in wide use

753 Rome founded

Tower of Babel

551 Confucious Born

Julius Caesar assassinated

Roman Colosseum completed

Rome adopts Christianity

Visigoths sack Rome

Medieval Period

Birth of Mohammad

Beowulf written

Charlemage emperor

Gun powder used in China

Battle of Hastings

Compass invented

Magna Carta signed

Marco Polo travels to China

Bubonic plague in Europe

Joan of Arc burned at the stake

Columbus discovers new world

Mona Lisa painted

Sistine Chapel completed

Luther prints German Bible

Drake sees Pacific from Panama

Romeo & Juliet published

Telescope invented

Descartes' analytical geometry

Great Fire of London

Milton's Paradise Lost

Peter the Great Czar

Americans protest slavery

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Industrial Revolution

Declaration of Independance

Washington 1st US President

Library of Congress formed

Webster's Dictionary

Hieroglyphics deciphered

Braille invented

1st Electric Motor

England seizes Hong Kong

US Civil War

Lincoln Assassinated

Telephone invented

Electric Lamp

Statue of Liberty

1st Gasoline Motor Car

Lumiére Bros' 1st Film

Radium discovered

Wright Brothers 1st Flight

Einsteins theory of relativity

1st production car

1st Colour Process

World War One

Women win right to vote US

AT&T 1st National Radio network

Linbergh 1st solo flight

US Stock market crash

Empire State Building opened

World War Two 1939–45

Pearl Harbour Bombed 1941

Gandhi Assasinated

1st Trans atlantic telephone cable

Sputnik 1 launched

MLK "I have a dream speech"

Marilyn Monroe dies

JFK Assassinated

MLK Assassinated

Concorde 1st commercial flight

USA Boycotts Moscow Olympics

MTV broadcasts "Video Killed the Radio Star"

1981 IBM introduces 1st personnal computer

AIDS Virus Identified

1984 USSR Boycotts Los Angeles Olympics

Challenger Explodes

Hurricane Andrew

911 Attack on World Trade Center

2011 Osama Bin Laden dies

Japan Earthquake

2015 Refugee Crisis Roils Europe

1500 BC Ras Shamra Script

1702 CE First Book designed using Romain du Roi

1722 CE First Caslon Oldstyle Typeface

1737 CE Fournier le Jeune standardizes type sizes

1757 CE Baskerville Typeface designed

1764 CE Manual Typigraphique first published

2800 BC Sumerian scribes turn pictographic writing on its side

2010 The Arrival of Webfonts

1750 BC Law Code of Hammurabi

1500 BC Hieratic script

1300 BC Book of the Dead

1557 CE Civilite Typeface

1570 CE Canon D'Espagne, Plantin Office

1609 CE German Newspapers widespread

1621 CE First English Newspaper

1692 CE Romain du Roi Typeface

1000 BC Bronze Script Writing

1495 CE Griffo designs Bembo

1501 CE Griffo designs Italic style typeface

1514 CE Scoensperger Designs Fraktur

1530 CE Garamond establishes independent type foundry

1523 CE Garamond typeface designed

1000 BC Early Greek Alphabet

1450 CE Movable type spreads in Germany

1455 CE 42 Line Bible Completed

1450 CE Copperplate engraving in use in Europe

1467 CE First Roman style type

1470 CE Jensen's Roman Typeface

400 BC Demotic Script in use

197 BC Rosetta Stone

1400 CE Woodblock printing in Europe

1440 CE Guttenberg perfects typographic printing

250 BC "Small Seal" Caligraphy

190 BC Parchment used for manuscripts

105 Ts'ai Lun invents paper

114 CE Trajan's Column constructed

770 CE Early Chinese Relief printing

781 CE Carolingian Minuscule

868 CE Earliest Printed Manuscript

800 CE Book of Kells

1040 CE Chinese invent movable type

200 CE Codex form of the Book

200–500 CE Roman Square and Rustic Capitals

394 CE Last hieroglyphic inscription

500 CE Uncial Lettering

600 CE Insular Script

3100 BC King Zet's ivory tablet

2900 BC Early cylinder seals

1400 BC Papyrus of Ani

15,000-10,000 BC Cave paintings, Lascaux

300 CE Chops used as identifying seals (Chinese)

1780 CE Bodoni Typeface designed

1765 CE 12 Line Pica Type

1784 CE Didot Typeface Designed

1771 CE Nouvelle Typographie

1796 CE Fry's Ornamented

1800 CE Walbaum Typeface designed

1803 CE Thome, 1st Fat Face type

1814 CE Steam powered press

1815 CE Antique, 1st Egyptian Typeface

1816 CE First Sans Serif Typeface

1822 CE Joseph Niépce

1827 CE Wood display type

1830 CE 2-line Great Primer Sans

1834 CE Pantograph Driven Router

1839 CE Daguerre announces his photographic process

1840 CE Lithography to America

1845 CE 1st Clarendon Typeface

1850-60s Woodtype posters dominate

1866 Ihlenburg joins Philadelphia foundry as type designer

1865 CE French Antique (Playbill)

1875 CE 1st French photographic printing plates

1886 CE Linotype Machine Invented

1898 Akzidenz Grotesk Designed

1895 Goudy’s Camelot Typeface

1896 Cheltenham Designed

1900 Behrens, First Book set in Sans serif

1892 American Typefounders

1901 Copperplate Gothic

1904 Franklin Gothic Designed

1908 News Gothic Designed

1910-15 Hobo Designed

1914 Souvenir Typeface Designed

1915 Century Schoolbook Designed

1916 Goudy Oldstyle Typeface

1916 Centaur Typeface

1916 Railway Type Designed

1918 Apollinaire Calligrammes published

1919 Cooper Oldstyle Typeface

1923 Neuland Typeface

1925 Universal alphabet font created

1927 Futura Designed

1928 American modernist typography

1928 Kabel Typeface

1928–30 Gill Sans Designed

1929 Broadway Typeface

1930 Joanna Typeface

1931 Eric Gill Essay on Typography

1931 Stymie Typeface

1932 Times Roman

1937 Peignot Typeface

1948 Trade Gothic Typeface

1950 Experimenta Typographica

1950 Brush Typeface

1950 Palatino Typeface

1952 Melior Typeface

1953 Mistral Designed

1955 Egyptienne Typeface

1957 Haas Grotesque (Helvetica) Designed

1957 Meriden Typeface

1957 Univers Typeface Designed

1962–66 Antique Olive

1962 Eurostile Typeface

1964 Sabon Typeface

1964 Massin designs the Bald Soprano

1965 Snell Roundhand Typeface

1967 Typography: A Manual of Design

1968 Syntax Designed

1967 Avant Garde Gothic

1966 Serifa Designed

1970 Machine Typeface

1970 International Typeface Corporation (ITC)

1974 American Typewriter

1974 ITC Tiffany

1974 Lubalin Graph

1975 Tony Stan designs Typefaces for ITC

1975 Igarashi, isometric alphabet

1975 William Kuntz typographic Interpretations

1978 Benguiat Designed

1978 Bell Centennial

1978 Galliard Designed

1979 Glypha

1981 Barcelonia

1982 Versailles Designed

1984 Macintosh Computer

1984 Macintosh Screen Fonts

1985 300 DPI Laser Printer

1987 Charter Designed

1987 Stone Fonts

1987 Charlemagne Designed

1980 Novarese Designed

1989 Adobe Garamond Typeface

1989 Trajan Designed

1988 Rotis Designed

1990 Adobe Caslon

1990 Arcadia

1990 Dead History

1990 ITC Officina

1991 ErikrightHand

1991 Print Designed

1992 Minion Multiple Master Typeface

1992 Poetica Designed

1993 Fella Parts

1994 Exocet Designed

1994 Penal Code Typeface

1995 Jesus Loves You

1995 Walker Font

1995 HTF Fetish No. 126

1996 Univers Revolved

1989 HTC Foundry

2000 Gotham Typeface Created

1996 OpenType

1988 Apple Computers TrueType

1991 Postscript language created

1986 Fontographer

1982 Adobe Computer Software

2005 Adobe purhcases Macromedia

1992 Macromedia

1995 FutureSplash Animator

3100 BC Early Sumerian pictographs

2007 CE iPhone arrives

1997 CE CSS Level 1

1998 CE CSS Level 2

1998 CE HTML 4

2010 CE HTML 5

2009 CE New Railway Typeface

2007 CE Helvetica Movie

2005 CE Guardian Egyptian Typeface

2005 CE Mega Families in wide use

2007 CE Typography Lesson

1999 Cholla Typeface

1992 The Chank font company

2004 Klavika™ Typeface

2005 Proxima Nova Typeface

2005 PF Din Text

2008 Museo Typeface

2004 Minuscule Typeface

2000 Warnock Pro

1561 CE Claude Garamond Dies

2012 Cubano Typeface Created

1999-2000 Dispatch Typeface designed

2007 Alte Haas Grotesque

1997 Conduit Typeface designed

2008 Heroic Typeface Designed

2013 Flash integrates HTML5

2012 Adobe Introduces Subscription Model

2011 Adobe Acquires Typekit

2010 Google Fonts

2015 Alphabettes

2014 World's biggest typeface lawsuit

2015 Cloud Typography Streaming

2016 Monotype Library Subscription Service

2015 CSS 3 Adopted

2017 First Parametric font

2017 Variable Font Introduced

Art Deco 1920–1930

Art deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s and into the World War II era.
The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and jewelry, as well as the visual arts such as painting, graphic arts and film.

The term "art deco" was coined in 1966, after an exhibition in Paris, 'Les Années 25' sub-titled Art Deco, celebrating the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) that was the culmination of style moderne in Paris. At its best, art deco represented elegance, glamour, functionality and modernity. Art deco's linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing asymmetrical organic curves of its predecessor style art nouveau; it embraced influences from many different styles of the early twentieth century, including neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism and futurism and drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian and Aztec forms.

Art Deco

Art Nouveau 1890-1910

Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910.

The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art". A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines.

Art Nouveau

Neoclassical 1700-1800

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.

The main Neoclassical movement coincided with the 18th century Age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th century

Neoclassical

Dada 1916-1922

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. "Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. The name 'Dada' was reputedly arrived at during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse."

Dada

Bauhaus 1919-1933

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence. Nonetheless it was founded with the idea of creating a 'total' work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design.

The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.

Bauhaus

Futurism 1909-1916

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city.

Futurism

Impressionism 1870-1886

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Named after a painting by Claude Monet "impression, sunrise", the movement focused on nature and focused on brush strokes rather than lines and contours.

Impressionism

Renaissance 1300 CE – 1602 CE

The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

Renaissance

Baroque 1600 - 1730

The Baroque is often thought of as a period of artistic style which used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theatre, and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome and Italy, and spread to most of Europe

Baroque

Romanticism 1790 - 1880

Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.

Romanticism

Fauvism 1904 - 1909

Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism

Fauvism

Surrealism 1920

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".

Surrealism

Abstract Expressionism 1940

Abstract Expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.[1] It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

Abstract Expressionism

International Typographic Style 1950

The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style that emerged in Russia, the Netherlands and Germany in the 1920s, and was made famous as it was developed by designers in Switzerland during the 1950s

International Typographic Style

Psychedelic art 1960

Psychedelic art is any art or visual displays inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and psilocybin.

Psychedelic art

Graffiti 1960

Graffiti (plural of graffito: "a graffito", but "these graffiti") are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often within public view.

Graffiti

Postmodern art 1970

Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern.