James I dissolves Parliament for the first time. His troops in Ireland force Hugh O'Neill, 2nd earl of Tyrone, now 71, to take refuge at Rome and the Plantation of Ulster is forfeited to the crown.
The Authorized (King James) version of the Bible is published for the Church of England after 7 years of effort by a committee of some 50 men which has included not only scholars from Oxford and Cambridge but also obscure vicars and political hacks, some of them drunks and pornographers, who have somehow crafted a masterpiece of the English language that will appear in countless editions over the next 4 centuries, with more than 7 billion copies sold.
guiri
2011-11-01 20:44:22 UTC
King James published his version of the Bible.
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