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1384 Anno Domini: John Wycliffe is the first person to produce a (hand-written) manuscript of the complete Bible in English. Wycliffe had no access to Greek or Hebrew manuscripts and was therefore totally reliant on the fourth century Latin translation of St. Jerome.

1455 Anno Domini: Gutenberg invents the printing press; books may now be mass-produced instead of individually hand-written. Gutenberg's first Bibles were printed in Latin.

1526 Anno Domini: William Tyndale's New Testament is the first New Testament to be printed in the English language.

1530 Anno Domini: Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament is printed.

1534 Anno Domini: Tyndale's revised New Testament is printed.

1535 Anno Domini: Myles Coverdale's Bible is the first complete Bible to be printed in the English Language.

1537 Anno Domini: Matthews Bible is the second complete Bible to be printed in English, printed by John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers.

1539 Anno Domini: The Great Bible is the first English Language Bible to be authorized for public use.

1560 Anno Domini: The Geneva Bible is the first English language Bible to add numbered verses to each chapter.

1568 Anno Domini: The Bishop's Bible is printed, the Bible of which the King James was a revision.

1609 Anno Domini: The Douay Old Testament is added to the Rheimes New Testament of 1582, making the first complete English Catholic Bible and translated from the Latin Vulgate.

1611 Anno Domini: The King James Bible is originally printed with 80 Books. The Apocrypha was Officially Removed in 1885 Leaving 66 Books.

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