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2000 BCE
20th century BC - Manual translation
Manual translation exist since 2000 BC with the Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumerian into Asian languages -
100 BCE
1st century - Tower of Babel
The translation dates back to the 1st century with the construction of the tower of Babel, which could not be built because the people who built it did not speak the same language. -
200
2nd century – rosetta stone
Born three versions of the same underlying text -
Jan 1, 900
9th century - House of wisdom Baghdad
Caliph Al-Mamun built the house of wisdom to train a translators base, establish terminology and control translation quality. The first translations were scientific translations, the source language was Greek and Syriak and the target language was Arabic. -
Jan 1, 1000
15th century - Luther’s German translation of the Bible and block-printing in Asia
This year two important events happened, Martin Luther performed the translation of the Bible into German in Europe, and block-printing was used in Asia to print the Chinese translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka -
Jan 1, 1500
15th century - The first multilingual publishing industry
In this year movable print technology was introduced and the first multilingual publishing industry was created. -
17th century - printed translation and shared interlingua
In Europe, modernization began with the printed translation and important characters like John Wilkins and Leibniz tried to develop a shared interlingua for scientific communication -
18th century - Business documentation
With the industrial revolution born the demand for business documentation -
19th century - Esperanto
Zamenhof invented Esperanto, a mash up auxiliary language for peace and progress -
20th century - Electronic computer arrived
In this century the electronic computer arrived with numbers and symbol processor with a software for almost every translation automation problem
