William tyndale

  • Jan 1, 1492

    born

    born
    william tyndale was born
  • Jan 1, 1508

    school

    school
    A young teenager, he enters Magdalen College at Oxford
  • Jan 1, 1512

    1512

    fished his B.A at oxford
  • Oct 9, 1514

    M.A

    M.A
    completes his M.A at oxford an is ordained, but refuses to enter monastic orders
  • Jan 1, 1519

    moveing

    moveing
    moves to Cambridge for doctoral studies
  • Jan 1, 1519

    working

    working
    Begins teaching at Little Sodbury, gets into disputes with priests
  • Jan 1, 1524

    new

    new
    Seeks patronage of Bishop Tunstall and is rebuffed; then, assisted by Monmouth, he travels to Germany and registers at the University of Wittenburg
  • Jan 1, 1525

    working

    working
    In Cologne, he prepares to print an English New Testament; but he is discovered and escapes with only a few printed portions
  • Jan 1, 1526

    done :)

    He completes the printing in Worms, and smuggled copies of his New Testaments are soon being circulated throughout England
  • Jan 1, 1530

    working

    His translation of the the first five books of the Old Testament appears in England
  • Jan 1, 1530

    working

    English agents seek to capture Tyndale on the Continent; he keeps moving, and writing
  • Jan 1, 1531

    fighting

    Sir Thomas More begins writing against Tyndale
  • Jan 1, 1531

    new people

    He meets Henry’s agent Steven Vaughan, but declines the king’s invitation to return to England
  • Jan 1, 1533

    frieands

    his frieand jhon frith pasted away
  • Jan 1, 1534

    moving

    He moves into Thomas Poyntz’s English merchants’ boarding house in Antwerp
  • Jan 1, 1535

    life

    King’s agent Henry Phillips arrives in Antwerp and befriends Tyndale, then arranges to have him arrested while the Poyntzes are out of town; Tyndale is cast into Vilvoorde prison near Antwerp
  • Jan 1, 1536

    death

    death
    william tydale died