http://www.counterspace.us/typography/timeline/
We came across a brilliant website which outlines the history of time, specifying when things came about, the first ever signs of type and how its evolved.
To Summarise, finding the most relevant:
1400 - Woodblock printing Europe
1523 - Garamond Designed
1621 - First English Newspaper
1692 - Romain du rol typeface
1702 - First book designed using romain du rol
1757 - Baskerville Typeface
1780 - Bodoni
1784 - Didot
1816 - First sans serif typeface
1835 - Braille Invented
1845 - 1st Clarendon Typeface
1850 - Word type posters dominate
1886 - Linotype machine invented
1896 - Cheltenham designed
1901 - Copperplate Gothic
1904 - Franklin Gothic
1923 - Universal Alphabet
1927 - Futura
1928 - Gill Sans
1932 - Times New Roman
1957 - Helvetica
1970 - Machine Typeface
1974 - American Typewriter
1982 - Adobe Software
1984 - Macintosh
1985 - Laser printer
1986 -Fontographer
2000 - Gotham
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