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Completion of the Mainz Psalter

Johannes Gutenberg and his team of printers inspect the first printed pages of the Mainz Psalter in their workshop, a moment that marks a pivotal achievement in the development of movable type printing.

Year 1457
Date 8/14
Location Gutenberg Workshop, Mainz, Germany
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
tax:printing-and-publishing

Key Figures

Johannes Gutenberg Master Printer Apprentice Ink Mixer
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 277 linked moments

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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · contemporaneous
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · contemporaneous
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · contemporaneous
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Mainz Psalter printed
1457 · contemporaneous
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · contemporaneous
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same location
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same location
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First issue of the London Gazette (Oxford Gazette)
1665 · same figure
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Gutenberg Bible completed
1455 · same figure
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First issue of the London Gazette
1666 · same figure
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same figure
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Death of Johannes Gutenberg
1468 · same figure
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same figure
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Star Chamber Decree Regulating Printing
1557 · same figure
Invention of the Movable-Type Printing Press by Johannes Gutenberg
Invention of the Movable-Type Printing Press by Johannes Gutenberg
1440 · same figure
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same figure
Completion of the Gutenberg Bible
Completion of the Gutenberg Bible
1455 · same figure
Completion of the Gutenberg Bible
Completion of the Gutenberg Bible
1455 · same figure
William Caxton establishes first printing press at Westminster
William Caxton establishes first printing press at Westminster
1476 · same figure
Printing of the Gutenberg Bible
Printing of the Gutenberg Bible
1455 · same figure
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Completion of the Gutenberg Bible
1455 · same figure
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Gutenberg's invention of the movable-type printing press
1440 · same figure
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Printing of Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' in English translation
1528 · same figure
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Mainz Psalter printed
1457 · same figure
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same figure
First Publication of the London Gazette
First Publication of the London Gazette
1665 · same figure
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Completion of the Mainz Psalter
1457 · same figure
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Gutenberg-Fust lawsuit ruling
1455 · same figure
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Completion of the Gutenberg Bible
1455 · same figure
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First issue of the London Gazette
1665 · same figure
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First issue of the London Gazette (Oxford Gazette)
1665 · thematic
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Gutenberg Bible completed
1455 · thematic
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First issue of the London Gazette
1666 · thematic
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Gutenberg Bible first mentioned in a letter by Enea Silvio Piccolomini
1455 · thematic
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First book printed at Caxton's Westminster Press: The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
1477 · thematic
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Invention of Movable Type Printing by Johannes Gutenberg
1440 · thematic