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• Egyptian glass beads.

1500 B.C.

• Small glass vessel at Egypt and Syria.

300 B.C.

• Alexandrian Glass manufacture.

1

• Glass blowing starts, possibly at Sidon.

20

• Italian glasshouses, and introduction of blown glass.

500

• Chinese glass.

800 - 1400

• "Empty Ages" of Western glass.

1000 - 1100

• Venitian glass beads and small vessels.

1100 - 1200

• York Minster stained glass.

1240

• Westmenster Abbey stained glass.

1291

• Venetian glass industry on the island of Murano begins.

1250 - 1400

• Fine Islamic enamel work.

1500 +

• Venice revives fine enameling

1507

• Dal Gallo from Murano gets privilege to make blown mirror glass.

1549

• The arrival in England of eight Murano glassworkers.

1573

• Verzelini stars a glasshouse in London.

1623

• Sir Edward Mansell get a patent to make any glass, and starts to reshape the English glass trade.

1635

• Charles I grants a charter to the London Glass Sellers' Corporation.

1637

• The glass industry of Mozhaisk, Russia is reestablished.

1665

• The arrival in Paris of eight Venetian glassworkers.

1670

• The first blown mirror glass factory is started in Lambeth, England, by the Duke of Buckingham.

1676

• Ravenscroft patents lead glass.

1688

• Casting and rolling glass is invented by Lucas de Nehou in Tours la Ville.

1722

• Diamond stippling grows in the Netherlands.

1739