Tyndale is strangled and burned
1536 · Event
The scholar who first printed the Bible in English — hunted across the Low Countries for it — is betrayed, condemned, and executed near Brussels, praying that God open the King of England's eyes. Within four years Henry VIII orders an English Bible in every parish church, largely Tyndale's own words.
On these timelines: The Reformation, Christianity, Henry VIII's Break with Rome, England, Major Religions
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