Around 1439, Johannes Gutenberg, a citizen of Mainz, was the first European to use movable type printing and became the global inventor of the printing press, thereby starting the Printing Revolution.

* Johannes Gutenberg ( – 1468 ) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with inventing movable type printing in Europe around 1439, and mechanical printing globally.

The Venice Library was lost in 1485 during the collapse of the abbey's bell tower, but following the invention of movable type printing by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, the rotting books had been saved in their entirety by making their first typeset copy " of about 1, 000 volumes ", with each typeset book containing 10 manuscripts.

* Johannes II Creul ( Kreuwel ), 1439 de jure – 1457 ( de facto since 1449 in Wiek as the younger Bishop ) with

Gutenberg was the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.

* 1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

The Council of Basel first suspended him, declared him a heretic, and then in November 1439 elected an antipope, Felix V. The rival Council of Florence ( moved to avoid plague in Ferrara ) concluded in 1445 after negotiating unions with the various eastern churches.

From 1437 to 1439 the King's first cousin Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, headed the government as lieutenant-general of the realm.

As Eric's nephew, Christopher, who was rather unfamiliar with Scandinavian conditions, was elected by the Danish State Council as the successor to his uncle, first as regent from 1439, and then proclaimed King of Denmark at the Viborg Assembly ( Danish landsting ) on 9 April 1440.

The first and third panels were signed, and the first dated 1439.

Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited with first exposing the forgery with solid philological arguments in 1439 – 1440, although the document's authenticity had already been repeatedly contested since 1001.

* Margaret Holland ( 1385 – 31 December 1439 ), married first John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and second Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence

The first corporate coat-of-arms was granted in 1439 to the Drapers ' Company in London with three triple crowns.

Its name first appears in documents in 1439 as Riki.

Prior to becoming king, Robert II was held here in 1369, as was Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas ( d. 1439 ) in the first half of the 15th century.

In 1439 the first official discovery document appeared attributing the discovery of the Formigas islets, to Gonçalo Velho Cabral.

Usually known as the Drapers ' Company, The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London was probably the first corporate body in England to be granted a coat of arms, on 10 March 1439.

In the fourteenth century the Ottoman Empire began to expand into the Balkans, with the Ottoman presence in Vučitrn first recorded in 1439, 50 years after the 1389 Battle of Kosovo signaled the entrance of the Ottomans to Kosovo.

Its first settlement began in 1439, with the occupation of Praia dos Lobos ( in the northern coast around Anjos ).

That territory was held by a branch line of the Zähringen dynasty from 1187 to 1439, known historically as the first House of Teck.

The first references to the settlement of the Azores date to between 1439 and 1449, through the donation of Henry the Navigator the colonization of seven islands in the central and eastern groups of the archipelago.

It is unclear when the first explorers discovered the island of São Jorge ; as part of the politics of human occupation, the Azores were populated after 1430 ( probably 1439 ) through the initiative of Prince Henry the Navigator.

The first reference to São Jorge was in 1439, but it wasn't until 1470, when colonial nuclei dotted the southern and western coast: the first of these colonists were believed to have come from northern Europe.

It is a decree during the age of minority of that monarch ( Afonso V ), dated 2 od July 1439, where the Infante D. Henrique is authorized to send to the first seven islands of the Azores, at the time discovered, the first families, when years before there were scattered some head of cattle.

This did not stop British newspapers from printing programme schedules for the station, or a British weekly magazine aimed at teenage girls, Fab 208 from promoting the " DJs " and their lifestyle ( Radio Luxembourg's wavelength was 208 metres ( 1439, then 1440 kHz )).

1290-1333 ) and Hua Sui ( 1439 – 1513 ), who invented respectively wooden and metal movable type printing.

Year 1439 ( MCDXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, which allowed works of literature to spread more quickly.

File: Gutenberg. jpg | Johannes Gutenberg ( c. 1398 – 1468 )

With the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1447, it became feasible to print books and maps for a larger customer basis.

In the 15th century, a new type of ink had to be developed in Europe for the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg.

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( ; 1398 – February 3, 1468 ) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.

There are many statues of Gutenberg in Germany, including the famous one by Bertel Thorvaldsen ( 1837 ) in Mainz, home to the eponymous Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the Gutenberg Museum on the history of early printing.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

The profession of printer became established after the invention of the moveable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1450, and proliferated throughout Europe.

The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.

He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution.

Modern movable type, along with the mechanical printing press, was invented in mid-15th century Germany by the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg.

* Johannes Gutenberg, European inventor of printing with movable type ( – 1468 )

* Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press in Europe ().

* Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz ( 1395 ?– 1468 ), printer and inventor of the movable type printing press

* Johannes Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press.

* The press of Johannes Gutenberg ( at Mainz on the Rhine ) produces the first printed documents bearing a date.

That was 210 years before Johannes Gutenberg from Germany did.

The Reformers made heavy use of inexpensive pamphlets ( using the relatively new printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg ) so there was swift movement of both ideas and documents, including The Ninety-Five Theses.