{"slug": "william-caxton", "label": "William Caxton", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94608", "qid": "Q94608", "description": "English merchant and printer (c. 1422–c. 1491)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1422, 1490], "span_label": ["1422 CE", "1490 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "english-language", "label": "English language", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bruges", "label": "Bruges", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "westminster", "label": "Westminster", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "french-language", "label": "French language", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1422, "year_label": "1422 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "probable – William Caxton, English printer (d. c. 1491)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325155630#Births", "title": "1422", "revid": 1325155630, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1473, "year_label": "1473 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Possible date – Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton, in Bruges.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813739#Date_unknown", "title": "1473", "revid": 1361813739, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1475, "year_label": "1475 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges (or 1473–74?).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369334832#Date_unknown", "title": "1475", "revid": 1369334832, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1477, "year_label": "1477 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – William Caxton produces Earl Rivers' translation into English of Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, at his press in Westminster, the first full-length book printed in England on a printing press.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330635656#October–December", "title": "1477", "revid": 1330635656, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1484, "year_label": "1484 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346941150#January–March", "title": "1484", "revid": 1346941150, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1490, "year_label": "1490 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – English printer William Caxton prints his English language translation of the French book, Ars moriendi, which he renders as The art and crafte to knowe well to dye.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365746432#April–June", "title": "1490", "revid": 1365746432, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}