Tyndale's English New Testament
1525
William Tyndale, hiding in Worms from English bishops who wanted him dead, printed the first New Testament in English translated directly from the Greek. Copies were smuggled into England in bales of cloth. His phrases, from let there be light to salt of the earth, still echo wherever English is spoken.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.