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Timeline

1534
We are granted Letters Patent, similar to a royal charter, by King Henry VIII to print 'all manner of books'.
1584
We publish our first book: Two Treatises of the Lord His Holie Supper.
1591
The first Cambridge Bible is printed by John Legate.
1629
The first Cambridge edition of the King James Bible.
1638
John Milton's Lycidas is published.
1698
The University Senate appoints 'Curators of the Press'.
1713
The second edition of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica is published.
1763
John Baskerville produces the folio Bible: one of the most beautiful Bibles ever published.
1805
The Cambridge Stereotype Bible: the invention of stereotyping allows successive printings to be made from one setting, improving the accuracy and stability of the text.
1833
The Pitt Building, designed by the architect Edward Blore, opens.
1875
The first book catalogue is produced.
1877
The Press declines what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary.
1890
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell are published in two volumes.
1893
We publish the first title in our Pitt Press series of Shakespeare editions for schools and our first journal, the Journal of Physiology.
1902
The first 12 volumes of Lord Acton's Cambridge Modern History are published.
1913
The Monotype system of hot-metal mechanised typesetting is introduced, leading to significant improvements in text quality, and in particular in the layout and spacing of complex formulae.
1949
The Press establishes a branch in New York.
1956
The first issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics is published.
1963
The University Printing House on Shaftesbury Road in Cambridge is opened.
1969
The Australia branch is established in Melbourne.
1975
We launch our English language teaching publishing business. Titles published in 1975 included: Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, The Mind’s Eye, Feelings, Poem into Poem and Variations on a Theme.
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Professor Stephen Hawking is published.
1984
The Cambridge English Course (Level 1) by Swan & Walter is published.
1981
The Edinburgh Building is opened by Her Majesty The Queen.
1985
Ray Murphy's English Grammar in Use is published.
1992
We open our bookshop at 1 Trinity Street, Cambridge. This is one of the oldest bookshop sites in the country, as books have been sold continuously on the site since at least 1581.
1996
The first dedicated electronic books on CD-ROM are produced. The Iberia branch is established in Madrid.
1997
Cambridge Journals Online is launched.
1998
The Brazil branch is established in São Paulo and the Africa branch is established in Cape Town.
1999
Our first print-on-demand book is printed digitally and we also publish our first e-book. The Asia branch is established in Singapore.
2004
We make our books more easily discoverable as a founding member of Google Book Search.
2006
Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition is published in print and electronic formats. The India branch is established.
2007
We congratulate Professor R.M.W. Dixon, author of Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development on his book becoming the 10,000th Cambridge print-on-demand title. The Middle East and North Africa branch is established.
2010
We take a large leap into the digital age by launching Cambridge Books Online, a platform for our e-books that gives researchers and academics all over the world access to thousands of academic and professional books. The Latin America branch is opened in Mexico City.
2011
University Publishing Online launches, providing access to e-books from the world-renowned publicity programmes of our partner presses.