Late Middle Ages · Europe · Technology
1468
Johannes Gutenberg Dies
1468
The inventor of the printing press died in Mainz poor, nearly blind, and mostly forgotten. Archbishop Adolf of Nassau had granted him a small pension and a courtier's robe in his last years. His grave is unmarked. The books he set in motion were already being printed in sixteen European cities.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.