| Ancient Egypt | Oldest map fold |
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| 95 B.C | The Invention of Paper |
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| Tang Dynasty | Chinese Bookbinding |
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| Heyan Era | Tato Folds
Kusudama (Medicine Ball)
Mecho and Ocho |
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| Song Dynasty | Chinese Folding Fans |
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| Mayan Empire | Maya Codices |
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| Yung Dynasty | Funerary Objects |
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| 1490 | First illustration of folded boat |
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| 1581 | Italian Napkin Folding and Waterbomb Base |
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| 17th-19th Century | Baptismal Certificates and Windmill-Folds in the west |
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| Edo Period | Recreational origami in Japan |
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| 1676 | Troublewit |
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| 1680 | Origami butterflies mentioned in a poem |
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| 1682-1717 | First References to Origami (Orisue) and Traditional Folded Cranes (Orizuru) |
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| 1734 | Japanese Print of Folded Models |
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| 1764 | Tsutsumi-no Ki (Book of Wrapping) by ISE Sadatake |
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| 1797 | Hiden Senbazuru Orikata (The Secret of One Thousand Cranes Origami) |
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| C. 1800 | Chushingura Orikata |
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| 1845 | KAYARA-GUSA (Kan-No Mado) |
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| Late 19th century | Froebelian Folding |
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| 1872 | Paper Hat Step Folds Published in Scientific American |
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| 1886 | Published Diagrams for the Flapping Bird |
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| 1887 | Published Diagrams for the Paper Boat |
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| 1898 | Lillian Oppenheimer born |
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| 1909 | Robert Harbin born |
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| 1911 | Akira Yoshizawa born |
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| 1920's | Bauhaus Movement and Paperfolding |
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| 1943 | Sadako Sasaki born |
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| 1955 | Yoshizawa's exhibition in Amsterdam |
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| 1958 | Founding of the Origami Center |
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| 1967 | World's first origami society established in the UK |
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| 1978 | Founding of the the Italian Origami Society |
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| 1979 | Founding of the the Belgian-Netherlands Origami Society |
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| 1980 | Founding of the Friends of the Origami Center of America (later Origami USA) |
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| 1988 | Birth of the O-List |
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| 1990 | Founding of Japan Origami Academic Society (JOAS) |
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| 1993 | Founding of the Israeli Origami Center |
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