Hampton Court Conference
January 1604
James I summoned bishops and Puritan divines to Hampton Court to debate reform of the Church of England. He rejected most Puritan demands but agreed, almost in passing, to commission a new English translation of the Bible. That offhand concession would produce the King James Version, the most influential work of English prose ever written by committee.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.