1485 | Censorship Edict of the Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) |
1501* | Imperial Senate privilege to the Sodalitas Celtica (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1538* | Henrician Proclamation (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1546* | Privilege Granted to Enea Vico (Parmigiano) (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1547* | French Censorship Act (France) Commentary: [1] |
1556 (1555 m.v.)* | Privilege Granted to Antonio Floriano (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1556* | Privilege Granted to Giovanni Ostaus (Italy) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Elizabethan Injunctions (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1559* | Day's privilege for The Cosmographical Glass (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1586* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1590* | Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books' (Italy) |
1598 | Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1603* | Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints (Italy) |
1624* | Statute of Monopolies (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1637* | Star Chamber Decree (United Kingdom) Commentary: [1] |
1673 | Nuremberg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1684* | Renewed Swedish Censorship Laws (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1690 | Amendment to the Frankfurt Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1693 | Locke's Memorandum on the 1662 Act (United Kingdom) |
1701* | Royal letters patent (France) Commentary: [1] |
1713 | Augsburg Printers' Ordinance (Germany) |
1721* | Printer Joachim Wielandt's Privilege for Popular Chapbooks, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1724* | Electoral Saxon Printing and Censorship Acts from 1549 to 1717 (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1725-1726* | Louis d'Héricourt's memorandum (France) Commentary: [1] |
1763* | Diderot's Letter on the book trade (France) Commentary: [1] |
1770* | Abolishment of Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1771* | Rescript Limiting the Freedom Allowed by the 1770 Legislation (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1773* | Rescript on Post-Publication Censorship (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1785* | Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing (Germany) Commentary: [1] |
1799* | Renewed Censorship Legislation, Denmark–Norway (Scandinavia) |
1810* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |
1812* | Swedish Freedom of the Press Ordinance (Scandinavia) |
1841* | Swedish Ordinance on the Limitation of Terms of Protection (Scandinavia) Commentary: [1] |