Basic timeline of printing

This post is a basic timeline of printing. There are 22 events listed below chronologically.

• 35,000: Hand stencils used on cave walls in Asia and Europe
• 3500 BC: Cylinder seals on clay documents in Sumer
• 1600 BC - 1046 BC (Shang dynasty): Seal printing used in China
• 3rd century BC: Seals used on pottery in China
• 220 AD: Woodblock printing on cloth used in China
• 7th century AD: Woodblock printing on paper used in China
• ~1040: Ceramic and wooden movable type invented by Bi Sheng
• 1346: Earliest color printing
• 1234: Metal moveable type used in Korea
• ~1439: Movable type printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg
• 1796: Lithography invented by Aloys Senefelder
• 1843: Rotary drum printing invented by Richard March Hoe
• 1875: Rotary offset printing press is invented by Robert Barclay
• 1890: Flexography introduced
• 1907: Modern screenprinting process invented by Samuel Simon
• 1938: Xerography invented by Chester Carlson
• 1968: Dot matrix printing released by Epson in Japan
• 1969: Laser printer invented by Gary Starkweather at Xerox
• 1971: 3D printer created by Johannes F. Gottwald
• 1984: Hot-melt inkjet printer introduced
• 1993: Digital printing is introduced
• 1998: Frescography invented by Rainer Maria Latzke

Source

Wikipedia: History of printing, 3D printing, Flexography, Offset printing, Movable type, Shang dynasty

Basic timeline of paper

This post is a basic timeline of paper. There are 10 events listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• 4th century BC: Papyrus used in Egypt
• 202 BC - 220 AD: Paper used in China
• 50 AD - 121 AD: Cai Lun improves method for papermaking in China
• 960 AD - 1279 AD: Song Dynasty introduces paper money in China
• 5th century AD: Amate used in Mesoamerica
• 7th century AD: Paper used in India
• 8th century AD: Paper used in the Islamic world
• 11th century: Paper used in Europe
• 13th century: Waterwheel mills used to make paper in Spain
• 19th century: Wood-based paper used in Europe

Basic timeline of the Seattle Mariners

This post is a basic timeline of the Seattle Mariners. There are 40 events listed below chronologically.

• 1977: First season
• 1979: Host All-Star Game
• 1984: Alvin Davis receives AL Rookie of the Year
• 1987: Ken Griffey Jr. is drafted first overall in the MLB draft
• 1989: Ken Griffey Jr. rookie season
• 1989: Randy Johnson joins the Mariners
• 1990: Randy Johnson throws no-hitter
• 1991: First winning season (83-79)
• 1992: Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi becomes majority owner
• 1993: Lou Piniella becomes manager
• 1993: Chris Bosio throws no-hitter
• 1995: First playoff appearance and division title
• 1995: Edgar Martinez hits game-winning double to win ALDS against the New York Yankees (lose to Cleveland Indians in ALCS)
• 1996: Alex Rodriguez rookie season
• 1997: Second playoff appearance and division title (lose to Baltimore Orioles in ALDS)
• 1998: Randy Johnson is traded to the Houston Astros
• 1999: Kingdome is demolished
• 1999: Safeco Field (T-Mobile Park) opens
• 2000: Ken Griffey Jr. leaves the Mariners and signs with the Cincinnati Reds
• 2000: Kazuhiro Sasaki receives AL Rookie of the Year
• 2000: Third playoff appearance and wild card (lose to New York Yankees in ALCS)
• 2001: Alex Rodriguez leaves the Mariners and signs with the Texas Rangers
• 2001: Host All-Star Game
• 2001: Tie single season record for wins in a season (116-46 record)
• 2001: Fourth playoff appearance and division title
• 2001: Ichiro Suzuki receives AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP
• 2003: Lou Piniella leaves the Mariners and signs with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
• 2004: Ichiro Suzuki breaks the single season hit record (257 hits)
  
• 2005: Felix Hernandez rookie season
• 2009: Ken Griffey Jr. returns to the Mariners
• 2010: Ken Griffey Jr. retires
• 2010: Felix Hernandez receives AL Cy Young Award
• 2012: Ichiro Suzuki is traded to the New York Yankees
• 2012: 6 player combined no-hitter (Kevin Millwood, Charlie Furbush, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League, Tom Wilhelmsen)
• 2012: Felix Hernandez throws perfect game
• 2015: Hisashi Iwakuma throws no-hitter
• 2018: James Paxton throws no-hitter
• 2019: Ichiro Suzuki returns to the Mariners
• 2019: Ichiro Suzuki retires
• 2021: Kyle Lewis receives AL Rookie of the Year

Sources

Wikipedia: History of the Seattle Mariners, Seattle Mariners, Ichiro Suzuki, Randy Johnson

Basic timeline of the Big Bang theory

This post is a basic timeline of the Big Bang theory. There are 9 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1225: Robert Grosseteste proposes that the birth of the universe was an explosion
• 1922: Alexander Friedmann proposes the Friedmann equations
• 1924: Georges Lemaître proposes expanding model of the universe
• 1929: Edwin Hubble observes that the universe is expanding
• 1931: Georges Lemaître proposes 'primeval atom' of the universe
• 1949: Fred Hoyle coins the term 'Big Bang'
• 1964: Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discover the cosmic microwave background
• 1990: COBE satellite observations support the Big Bang theory
• 2001-2010: WMAP spacecraft photographs the cosmic microwave background

Basic timeline of dark energy

This post is a basic timeline of dark energy. There are 7 events listed below chronologically.

• 1915: Albert Einstein considers the possibility of a cosmological constant in the field equations of general relativity
• 1922: Alexander Friedmann proposes the Friedmann equations
• 1929: Edwin Hubble observes that the universe is expanding
• 1964: Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discover the cosmic microwave background
• 1980: Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky propose a negative pressure field for cosmic inflation
• 1988: Michael Turner coins the term 'dark energy'
• 1998: Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess lead the High-Z Supernova Search Team and observe that the universe is expanding

Sources

Wikipedia: Dark energy, Friedman equations, Cosmic microwave background

Basic timeline of dark matter

This post is a basic timeline of dark matter. There are 6 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1884: William Thomson proposes dark bodies in the Milky Way Galaxy
• 1906: Henri Poincaré uses the term 'matière obscure' ('dark matter') to describe Thomson's observations
• 1922: Jacobus Kapteyn proposes dark matter based on stellar velocities
• 1933: Fritz Zwicky proposes 'dunkle materie' ('dark matter') by applying the the virial theorem to a galaxy cluster
• 1939: Horace W. Babcock reports unexpectedly fast outer stars in the Andromeda Galaxy
• 1960s-1970s: Vera Rubin, Kent Ford and Ken Freeman use a spectrograph to measure unexpectedly fast outer stars in spiral galaxies

Basic timeline of Stephen Hawking

This post is a basic timeline of physicist Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). There are 17 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1942: Born in Oxford, England
• 1959: Enrolls at University College, Oxford
• 1962: Enrolls at Trinity Hall, Cambridge
• 1966: Writes thesis Properties of Expanding Universes
• 1966: Becomes research fellow at Gonville and Caius College
• 1970: Proposes second law of black hole thermodynamics
• 1973: Publishes The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with Ellis
• 1974: Proposes Hawking radiation
• 1974: Becomes visiting professor at Caltech
• 1975: Becomes reader at the University of Cambridge
• 1979: Becomes Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge
• 1981: Proposes black hole information paradox
• 1983: Proposes the Hartle-Hawking state with Hartle
• 1988: Publishes A Brief History of Time
• 1993: Publishes Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
• 2001: Publishes The Universe in a Nutshell
• 2018: Died at age 76 in Cambridge, England