Queen of Tarot

Timeline of Tarot Related Events

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Before Dice

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  The codex format is used for the first time

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  Cubical dice begin spreading across the world

Dice

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  Cubical dice begin spreading across the world

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  First example of printing on paper

• Invention of "The Game of Leaves", an early role playing game, which made use of cards

Predecessors to Cards

• Gamblers Caught Printing Cards

Cards Spread Through Asia

• Gamblers Caught Printing Cards

• St. Gallen Gambling Ordinance Ignores Cards

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  Tower of Pisa Completed

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  Nobles depicted playing cards.

Cards enter Europe

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  Nobles depicted playing cards.

• Dominican Friar Describes Cards

• St. Gallen Ordinance Forbids Cards

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  King depicted playing cards with nobles.

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  Oldest extant playing card from Turfan, along the Silk Road.

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  Mamluk Playing Cards

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  Moorish Playing Cards

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  Visconti di Madrone / Cary Yale Tarot

Tarot Cards Evolve

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  Visconti di Madrone / Cary Yale Tarot

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  Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Visconti Tarot

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  Brera-Brambilla Visconti Tarot

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  Ercole I d'Este Tarot

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  Philip the good is posthumously depicted getting his fortune read.

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  Sola Busca Tarot

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  Catalan Playing Cards

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  Early German Stenciled Playing Cards

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  People begin using the method of cutting a deck of cards as an early form of cartomancy

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  The Duke and Duchess of Bavaria are sketched playing cards.

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  So-Called Charles VI Gringonneur Deck

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  Early French Tarot

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  Jost Amman's Card Painter

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  Books and Beer Playing Cards

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  Margarita de Borja is tortured by the Spanish Inquisition and eventually confesses her method of cartomancy.

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  Marseille Pattern Tarot

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  Birth of Antoine Court de Gebelin

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  Birth of Etteilla

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  Petit Etteilla Cartomancy Cards

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  Birth of Madame Le Normand

Tarot Cards Become Mystical

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  Birth of Madame Le Normand

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  Court de Gebelin draws his version of the Marseille Tarot

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  Grand Etteilla Cartomancy Tarot

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  Birth of Eliphas Levi

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  Ancient Tarot of Lombardy

• Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

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  Birth of Arthur Edward Waite

• Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

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  Birth of Papus

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  Birth of Pamela Colman Smith

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  Tarot Genoves

• S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

• Papus's Divinatory Meanings

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  Papus Trumps

• A. E. Waite's Divinatory Meanings

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  Rider Waite Smith

• P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings