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Venerable Bede, a monastery Abbot, decides to translate the Gospel of John, to help the monks in his monastery.
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Priest Guyart des Moulins completes the Bible Historiale, which was the most popular French translation of the medieval period.
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The Bible of Dresden is the earliest known translation of the full Bible into Czech.
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First hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced by John Wycliffe, an Oxford professor, scholar, and theologian.
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The first Bible translation into Hungarian was completed by Franciscan monks Taman Pecsi and Balint Ujlaki.
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Bible was translated and published into Old Belorussian by Francisk Skaryna.
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Martin Luther translates the Scriptures for the German peoples, which had a great influence on Europe.
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Authorities prevented William Tyndale from translating the Bible in England so he found refuge in Germany.
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The Bible was translated in French starting from the Hebrew and Greek, by Pierre Robert Olivetan.
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Archbishop Mikael Agricola, father of the written Finnish language. He translated the New Testament into Finnish in three years.
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The Bible of Shakespeare makes its first appearance. This English version has been attributed primarily to William Whittingham. This was the creation “of private enterprise and religious enthusiasm on the part of a small group of English Protestant exiles in the city of Geneva” (McGrath 2001:98).
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Casiodoro de Reina completed the first full Spanish Bible, nicknamed the "Biblia del Oso" (Bible of the Bear)
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King James I authorizes the production of a new translation in order to mend the Puritan rift in the Church of England.
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John Eliot translates the Scriptures into the Massachusett language.
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Jesuits began translating scriptures into Japanese, though Japan wouldn't have a full Bible until three centuries later. The translation committee was made up of James Curtis Hepburn and Samuel Robbins.
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