Brief History of Tarot 
The origin of tarot is dark. Perhaps soar, like other card game, the time of the ancient Egyptians, from the time that scholars have recognized the major arcana in hieroglyphics. By contrast, other scholars have talked about striking similarities of playing cards with the first games and idols east.
Others mention their relationship with the Jewish tradition and the Qabalah. Moreover, we can not exclude the Middle Ages as the birthplace of the tarot. Do not even know if the major arcana, with its symbolic drawings and minor arcana, with its well-known four suits were created separately and later collected in a single deck, great for any mind, or if, conversely, born directly as a deck or deck of seventy-eight cards.
will try to give the most plausible explanation of the origin of tarot cards in chronological order and details of the first decks similar to the tarot, which were popular in Italy during the fifteenth century followed in their evolution to the final of the tarot deck of the eighteenth century.
1299: In a manuscript of Siena, "Trattato del governo della Pipozzo family di di Sandro", mentions the naibis. Possibly the first reference to cards in Europe.
1329: The Bishop of Wurzburg signed an injunction in which condemns entertainment cards.
XIV century: Father Johannes, German priest reported the appearance of a film called card games, stating six types among which was one of 78 cards.
1378: In Regensburg, Germany, prohibits the card game.
1379: The Dukes Jeanne and Wenceslas acquired a card game for signature, Ange van der Noot, of Brussels.
1380-84:
a) The Nuremberg Code allows the playing cards.
b) The painter paints Jacquemin Gringonneur three sets of letters to King Charles VI of France.
This game is preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and are the oldest known cards, they offer the format of 78 letters, including the 22 Major Arcana. This happened in 1381.
1393: The card games are allowed in Florence. Italian corporations are created by painters of cards.
1397: A decree of the Paris card game forbidden to commoners in the days of work.
1415: This is one of the likely dates at which the Duke of Milan, Filippo Mary Visconti, pay 1,500 gold pieces for a Tarot card game hand illuminated. This version is the oldest known today.
1440: this year are performed in older letters engraved wooden blocks.
1441: Venice officials banned the importation of cards, due to the large production of playing cards in the city.
1463: Edward IV of England prohibited the import of cards foreign, to protect domestic manufacturers.
1543: Mention is made of an expanded Tarot called Germini. Which became popular in Italy and was exported to Germany and France.
1546: Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), in his "Clavis Absonditorum", describes the first known esoteric theory about the symbolism of the Tarot elliptical.
1590-1600, are described different types of Tarot, including one of 144 letters and a 96. It appears under the pen of Italian Garzoni a detailed description of the Tarot which corresponds to the current Tarot of Marseilles.
XVII Century:
a) The Tarochino of Mitelli.
b) The Tarot of Marseilles. 1773-82
work appears in 9 volumes "Le monde et Primitif analyze compare avec le monde moderne", the French Court of Gebelin Mason, who was also a member of the Order of the elected Cohen of Martinez de Pascualy and personal friend of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin in this work we find a presentation entitled "The Game of Tarot", it is exposed for the first time about the Egyptian origin of it, calling the Tarot's "Book of Thoth. His theories were widely disseminated in the occult world of the era and even today.
1783-85: This period makes their publications, one of the major drivers Tarot Etteilla, creator of several decks called The Egyptian Tarot, The New Etteilla and the Great Oracle des Dames.
1861: Publication of the book "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic", which was the work of Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Levi), considered the greatest magician of the nineteenth century, in this work we set out his thinking on taro and the script focuses solely on the Devil and the cart, being the first to link the Tarot to the Kabbalah.
1888: Liddell Mathers, Macgregor Mathers subsequently, an eminent Kabbalist, Rosa-Cruz and Mason publishes "The Tarot, its hidden meaning," Robert Wang commissioning drawings full deck Tarot of the Golden Dawn (Order impressive emetic-Kabbalist, he founded together with eminent Kabbalists, Rosicrucians and Masons as they were, William Woodman and Wynn Wescott, note that perhaps was the most important esoteric order of the last century, influencing the origin of other orders that came later.)
1889: published "The Tarot of the Bohemians" by Dr. Gerard-Anaclet-Vicent Encause (Papus), one of the leaders of the occult revival of 1885, which together with Stanislas de Guaita and did revive the initiation Chaboseau Martinista. This masterful work is considered fundamental to the study of the secrets and fundamentals of the Tarot.
1889: They were published under the title "The Qabalistic Tarot", the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot for use by the initiated, by the great Mason and Rosa Cruz, Oswald Wirth. In the Tarot of the Bohemians, the prints used Papus O. Wirth as directed by Stanislas de Guaita and your request.
nineteenth century: At the end of this century, wrote several books on the Tarot, among these it is worth noting that while some did not contribute much to the previously outlined an important part of the anthology. "Serpent of Genesis" and "The Temple of Satan and the Key of Black Magic" by Stanislas de Guaita, "Stay Gold" from Gilkin, etc.
1910: Printed in London Rider Tarot, designed by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite, who was a member of the Golden Dawn. This Tarot has become the most popular.
1944: publishes "The Book of Thoth", designed by the great magician, British poet and critic, Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris Artist. Crowley poured into this work the synthesis of knowledge in the fields of magic, numerology, Kabbalah and Astrology, in a tight and masterful imagery, not recommended for beginners.
Source: eltarotdeana.com
