King James Bible Published
May 1611
Forty-seven scholars working in six committees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster finished their seven-year labor of translating the Scriptures into stately, rhythmic English. The Authorized Version would shape prose, preaching, and politics across the English-speaking world for three centuries. Few books have been read aloud more often, and its cadences echo in the language to this day.
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Also in 1611 (3 other events on record)
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.