Bi Sheng between 1041 and 1048.) Although pioneered earlier in Korea and by the Chinese official Wang Zhen (with tin), bronze metal movable type printing is created in China by Hua Sui in 1490. Johannes Gutenberg advances the printing press in Europe () Linear perspective drawing perfected by Filippo Brunelleschi 1410–1415 Invention of the harpsichord Arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492. References Sources Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free 2nd millennium Centuries