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  william tyndale was born
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  A young teenager, he enters Magdalen College at Oxford
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  fished his B.A at oxford
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  completes his M.A at oxford an is ordained, but refuses to enter monastic orders
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  moves to Cambridge for doctoral studies
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  Begins teaching at Little Sodbury, gets into disputes with priests
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  Seeks patronage of Bishop Tunstall and is rebuffed; then, assisted by Monmouth, he travels to Germany and registers at the University of Wittenburg
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  In Cologne, he prepares to print an English New Testament; but he is discovered and escapes with only a few printed portions
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  He completes the printing in Worms, and smuggled copies of his New Testaments are soon being circulated throughout England
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  His translation of the the first five books of the Old Testament appears in England
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  English agents seek to capture Tyndale on the Continent; he keeps moving, and writing
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  Sir Thomas More begins writing against Tyndale
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  He meets Henry’s agent Steven Vaughan, but declines the king’s invitation to return to England
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  his frieand jhon frith pasted away
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  He moves into Thomas Poyntz’s English merchants’ boarding house in Antwerp
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  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
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  william tydale died