Tarot Cards and Cartomancy/Playing Card Timeline

In fact, the tarot, a pack of playing cards most commonly numbering 78, is said to have been originally used to play a group of card games such as Tarot Card and Cartomancy TimelineItalian tarocchini and French tarot card reading in various parts of Europe from the mid-15th century.
Tarot Timeline

Here is the Timeline for the Tarot:

The Middle Ages & The Rennaissance:

  • 1377: the earliest mention of playing cards, according to Dummett.
  • 1420s: the idea of trumps appears as a European invention, in the German game of Karnöffel.
  • 1440: Tarot was probably created somewhere in northern Italy.
  • 1442: Tarot cards ordered for the Court of Ferrara.
  • -1480: several decks were produced by Bembo, an Italian artist, of which portions still exist. There are some that were commissioned by Filippo Maria Viscounti prior to his death in 1447.
  • 1450-80: A sermon is recorded that list the Trumps.
  • 1457: both cards and tarot were referred by the Bishop of Florence, indicating they are considered different things, in "Treatise of Theology."
  • c1470: The first "Tarocchi de Mantegna" was produced.
  • 1471: Two codices at the Biblioteca Vaticaa showcase figures from the Tarocchi de Mantegna.
  • 1488: the allegorical significance of the four suits was speculated by Galcottus Martius on in De Doctrina Promiscua.
  • 1496-1506: a set of 21 tarochhi cards was produced by Albrecht Durer based on the Tarocchi de Mantegna.
  • 1540: a fortune book considered the first known document about cartomancy was published in Venice by Francesco Marcolini.
  • 1557: Catelin Geogroy Tarot Cards is the earliest set of Tarot cards containing a numbered sequence.
  • 1652-1654: the Mensa Isiaca, or Tablet of Isis, a folding plate of possibly ancient origin containing symbolism found in the Tarot, specifically the 21 sacred signs of the alphabet of Thoth was described by Athanasius Kircher.
  • 1659: Tarot was included among the games in a collection, La Maison des jeux academique, which included several French versions of Tarot and a Swiss one : Ancient French Rules.

Early Occultists

  • 1748: Grimaud had published its first deck of cards.
  • 1760: N. Conver had published his version of a Tarot de Marseille style pack.
  • 1770: the first book on cartomancy was published
  • 1781: "Le Monde Primatif" was published by Court De Gebelin (Antoine Gebelin) in which it was asserted that the Tarot must be Egyptian in origin because it contains hidden symbolism. Gebelin attributes Hebrew letters to the cards.
  • 1785: the first book devoted to divination by Tarot was published by Etteilla.
  • c.1788: the first deck specifically for esoteric purposes, including divination was published by Etteilla.
  • 1799: Rosetta Stone was discovered
  • 1813: "Les Vers Dores de Pythagore Expliques" was published by Antoine Fabre d'Olivet in which he gives mystical interpretations to sayings attributed to Pythagoras.
  • 1814: a connection between the structure of the Tarot and Pythagorean number theory was described by Antonio Dargoni.
  • 1816: Antoine Fabre d'Olivet publishes "La Lange Hebraique Restituee," a grammar of biblical Hebrew.
  • 1823: Lenain publishes "La Science Kabbalistique".
  • 1829: Eusebe Solverte publishes "Des Sciences Occultes".
  • 1842: the idea that some of the Major Arcana cards were derived from early Eastern Idols was put forth by Michel Constant Leber.
  • 1854: the gypsy origin for Tarot was mentioned by d'Ambly.
  • 1855: Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant) publishes "Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie" in which he popularizes and expounds upon Gebelin's Kabbalistic associations.
  • 1857: a study of gypsies that reinforces Tarot origin theory was published by Valliant.
  • 1861: Levi meets with Englishman Kenneth Mackenzie, a member of the Soceitas Rosivruciana in Anglia.
  • 1863: Paul Christian publishes "L'Homme rouge des Tuileries"
  • 1865: the gypsy origin for Tarot was mentioned by Taylor
  • 1870: Paul Chrisitan publishes "Histoire de la Magie."
  • 1888: The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn was founded.
  • 1889: Papus (Gerard Encausse) publishes "Le Tarot des Bohemiens" in which many of the strands of thought found in earlier occultists' theories were summarized.
  • 1889: Oswald Wirth, a Swiss occultist writing in French, publishes a Majors only deck.
  • 1891: A.E. Waite joins the Golden Dawn.
  • 1898: Aleister Crowley joins the Golden Dawn.

The Modern Tarot

  • 1909: Waite publishes his tarot deck. Designed by Pixie Smith, this deck will become the most popular deck in the English speaking world.
  • 1910: "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot" published by Waite
  • 1913: St. Petersberg, P. D. Ouspendsky structures the tarot deck as a representation of God, placing the 21 Major Arcana
  • 1920′s: Paul Foster Case puts forth the theory that the tarot was invented around the year 1200 by a group of wisemen meeting in Fez.
  • 1927: Wirth publishes "The Tarot Of The Magicians".
  • 1929: the Knapp Tarot was published by J. A. Knapp.
  • 1944: Crowley publishes the "Thoth" tarot book with illustrations of a deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris.
  • 1966: Gertrude Moakley advances the theory that the Major Arcana was designed to model Petrarch's poem "Triumphi."
  • 1973: Aquarian Tarot is published.
  • 2003: The most popular book to expound on Tarot card in the new century has been Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code.

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