| Year | | Event | Keyword |
| 1527 | | Ortelius, Abraham, d. 1598, published of Antwerp (original name: | ORTELIUS |
| Abraham Wortels), cartographer and publisher of maps. Theatrum |
| Orbis Terrarum 1570 |
| 1528 | | Feierabend, Sigmund, d.1590, woodcutter and type cutter, | FEIERABEND |
| Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1529 | | Enchiridion der kleine Catechismus fur die gemeine Pfarher und | ENCHIRIDION |
| Prediger, Gemehrt und gebessert durch Mart.Luther, Wittenberg |
| 1529 | | Tory, Geoffroy Tory's Champleury published in Paris | TORY |
| 1530 | | Tory, Geoffroy, becomes the first royal printer in Paris | TORY |
| 1530 | | Miguel de Cervantes (1513-1616), author of DON QUIXOTE | CERVANTES |
| 1531 | | Emblem Books, the first anthology of emblems was printed in | EMBLEMATUM LIBER |
| Augsburg by Heinrich Steiner: Emblematum Liber |
| 1531 | | Krause, Jakob, d.1586. German bookbinder, active in Paris , | KRAUSE |
| Augsburg and Dresden |
| 1534 | | Frankfurt Book fair | FRANKFURT |
| 1534 | | Luther. First complete Luther bible translation, illustrated, was | LUTHER |
| printed by Hans Lufft at Wittenberg |
| 1534 | | Luther. First complete Luther bible translation, illustrated, was | BIBLE |
| printed by Hans Lufft at Wittenberg |
| 1536 | | Lotter, Melchior, d.1536, printer of Leipzig, friend of Luther | LOTTER |
| 1537 | | France I ordered that all French presses should deliver a copy of | BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONAL |
| every book they printed to the royal library |
| 1538 | | Holbein's Dance of Death published in Lyons | HOLBEIN |
| 1538 | | Dance of Death with Holbein's illustrations printed in Lyon by Gaspar | HOLBEIN |
| and Melchior Treschel |
| 1539 | | Amman. birth Jost Amman | AMMAN |
| 1540 | | Egerton, Sir Thomas, d.1617, founder of one of the oldest private | EGERTON |
| libraries in Britain; in 1917 a large portion of the archives was |
| bought by Henry E. Huntington |
| 1540 | | Paper, first paper mill in Stockholm | PAPER |
| 1540 | | Keere, Hendrik van den, d.1580. Punch cutter, binder and printer in | KEERE |
| Ghent, Belgium |
| 1543 | | Vesalius, Andreas, 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica', anatomical study, | VESALIUS |
| published by Johannes Oporinus |
| 1543 | | Moretus, Joannes (Jan Moerentorf), d.1610. Plantin's son in law and | MORETUS |
| successor. |
| 1545 | | Bodley, Sir Thomas, d.1613. Rebuilder of Oxford University Library | OXFORD UN. LIBRARY |
| bearing his name. |
| 1545 | | Granjon, Robert, d.1589, Paris/Lyon, punch cutter and type designer | GRANJON |
| 1545 | | Bodley, Sir Thomas, d.1613. Rebuilder of Oxford University Library | BODLEY |
| bearing his name. |
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