Timeline
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1469 | Venice: five-year printing privilege to Johannes de Spira (Fulin no. 1) |
| 1474 | Venetian Senate patent act (parte of 19 March) |
| 1486 | Venice: privilege to the author Sabellico (the earliest to an author among Fulin's documents, no. 3) |
| 1517 | Venetian Senate revokes existing printing privileges and limits new ones to new books |
| 1557 | Stationers' Company chartered; register entries begin (SRO no. 1, 1557-07-19) |
| 1561 | England: Hulme's No. I (white soap) |
| 1581 | Dutch Republic: the Buning data begin |
| 1617 | Woodcroft's No. 1 |
| 1624 | Statute of Monopolies (21 Jac. I c. 3): patents for new inventions limited to 14 years or less |
| 1637 | Entrance in the Stationers' Register becomes compulsory (SRO) |
| 1710 | Statute of Anne; this site's printing data end in 1640 and cannot show the years around it |
| 1852 | Woodcroft's list ends (1 October); it was compiled under the Patent Law Amendment Act, 15 & 16 Vict. c. 83, s. 32 (title page) |
Years and events are taken from the sources used (Fulin, Hulme, Woodcroft, SRO) and the titles of the statutes.