#OTD in 1493.
Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. This was quickly followed by a German translation on December 23, 1493.
The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Dürer, who, in the year of Dürer's birth in 1471, ceased goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher.