| | Year | | Event | Keyword |
| | 1689 | | At her death in 1689 her library, known as the Bibliotheca | CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN |
| | Alessandrina (she considered herself a female Alexander the |
| | Great), was transferred to the Vatican Library. |
| | 1689 | | At her death in 1689, Christina of Sweden's library, known as the | ALESSANDRINA |
| | Bibliotheca Alessandrina (she considered herself a female |
| | Alexander the Great), was transferred to the Vatican Library. |
| | 1690 | | Paper, first papermaking in America | PAPER |
| | 1691 | | Mazarin. Second Mazarin bibliotheque opened | MAZARIN |
| | 1693 | | Caslon, William, d.1766. English type founder. | CASLON |
| | 1695 | | Luce, Louis-Rene, d.1774, punch cutter working for the Imprimerie | LUCE |
| | Royal |
| | 1701 | | Fleischman, Johann Michael, d.1768, Nuremberg punch cutter | FLEISCHMAN |
| | 1702 | | Jakob Christof Le Blon (1667-1741) was the first to produce an | PRINTS, COLOUR |
| | engraving in several colors. He took as his starting point Newston's |
| | theory, published in 1702, which stated that all colors in the |
| | spectrum are composed of the three primary colors -blue, yellow |
| | and red. In practice, however, in order to obtain a satisfactory |
| | impression, a fourth plate had to be added, bearing black lines. |
| | 1703 | | Enschede Printing office founded in Haarlem by Izaac Enschede | ENSCHEDE |
| | 1706 | | Franklin, Benjamin, d.1790, printer, publisher, statesman | FRANKLIN |
| | 1706 | | Baskerville, John (1775), Type founder and printer in Birmingham. | BASKERVILLE |
| | 1709 | | Copyright Act in England | COPYRIGHT |
| | 1713 | | Baine, John (1790). Edinburgh type founder | BAINE |
| | 1716 | | Utrecht Psalter donated to the Utrecht University Library by Willem | UTRECHT PSALTER |
| | de Ridder, an official of the States of Utrecht. |
| | 1717 | | Horace Walpole (1717-1797), author of thousands of diverting | WALPOLE |
| | 1725 | | Ibarra, Joaquim, d.1785, printer in Madrid, court printer to Carlos III | IBARRA |
| | 1726 | | Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus, d.1801. German artist-engraver. | CHODOWIECKI |
| | 1726 | | Austria. Imperial Library (now National Library) building built by | AUSTRIA NATIONAL LIBRARY |
| | J.B.Fischer |
| | 1730 | | Didot, Francois-Ambroise, d.1804, oldest of Didot family, famous | DIDOT |
| | French printing family |
| | 1733 | | Jackson, Joseph, d.1792, London type cutter and founder | JACKSON |
| | 1734 | | This process was invented by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734-1784). | AQUATINT |
| | François Janinet (1752-1813) was the first to employ it for color |
| | prints, by using several plates. Francisco Goya made great use of |
| | it, often combining it with line engraving, etching and also drypoint. In |
| | more recent times it has been one of the favorite techniques of |
| | Georges Rouault (1871-1958) and Pablo Picasso. |
| | 1738 | | Walter, John, d.1812, founder of newspaper The Times, 1785/1788 | TIMES, THE |
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