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The Book of Job is written sometime around the time of the Patriarchs. The author and exact date of writing is unknown.
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The Book of Malachi, the last book in the Old Testament, is written (exact date unknown).
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A group of 70 Jewish scholars living in Alexandria, Egypt translate the Old Testament into Greek, the common language of that day.
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John writes the Book of Revelation while in exile on Patmos, during the end of the reign of Domitian.
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St. Jerome completes his translation of the Bible into Latin (the Latin Vulgate). This was the first translation of the entire Bible.
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Venerable Bede translates Gospel of John into English while on his deathbed.
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St. Cyril and Methodius create the Slavic Alphabet and begin translating Bible into various Slavic languages.
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John Wycliffe translates Bible into English from the Latin Vulgate.
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Gutenberg invents the printing press and publishes the Latin Bible
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William Tyndale publishes the first Bible to be translated from Hebrew/Greek into English.
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Martin Luther translates the entire Bible into German.
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Henry VIII orders Tyndale to be burnt at the stake for hersesy.
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The Geneva Bible is made in Geneva, Switzerland, and becomes the first Bible to have verse numbers and extensive Protestant footnotes.
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King James commissions 47 Bible scholars to create a Bible translation from Hebrew/Greek.
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William Carey translates Bible into Bengali, Oriya, Marathi, Hindi, Assamese, and Sanskrit
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The New Testament is translated into Korean under the direction of John Ross.
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The Summer Institute of Linguistics is founded and begins translating the Bible into local languages.
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William Cameron Townsend founds Wycliffe Bible Translators.
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The Seed Company is launched by the former president of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Bernie May.
