The Ordinatio ecclesiae (1551) of Alexander Alesius is a little-known Latin translation of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Alesius had been resident in England in the 1530s and had kept in touch with his English friends when he returned to the continent, becoming professor of theology at ...
1549 First version of The Book of Common Prayer 1564 Shakespeare born 1603 Union of the English and Scottish crowns under James the I (VI of Scotland)1604 Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary, Table Alphabeticall 1607 Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in...
the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia. Because little is known about ancient Indo-European (which may have been spoken as long ago as 3,000 B.C.), we'll begin our survey in Britain in the first century A.D.
during the reigns of the Norman and Angevin kings ; and although the reproduction of the older translations shows that there were some Englishmen who still used their language in its ancient form, yet there can be no doubt that many of the old words had become obsolete by the time of the ...
, The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662.. That said, neither the Authorised Version of the Bible of 1611 nor the Prayer Book of 1662 was without precedent, and both owed substantial debts to earlier efforts. Upwards of 80 per cent of the King James New ...
1559 - The Revised Prayer Book of Elizabeth I is issued. It is less extreme than its predecessors1560 - Elizabeth founds Westminster School1562 - Hawkins and Drake make first slave-trading voyage to America.1562 - Elizabeth gives aid to the Protestant Huguenots in the French Wars of Religion....
1549 - Publication of the Book of Common Prayer, the official prayer book of the Church of England 1553 - Queen Mary I restores the Catholic Church in England and persecutes members of the Church of England 1558 - Queen Mary I dies and the Church of England is restored by Queen Elizabeth...
English LyricsChinese LyricsI'd rather have Jesus than silver or goldI'd rather be His than have riches untoldI'd rather have Jesus than houses or landI'd rather be led by His nail-pierced handThan to be the king of a vast domainAnd be held in sin's drea
Next in order come some fragments of an imperfect interlinary version of the Book of Proverbs. Similar glosses were made on the Psalter; also on the Canticles of the Church, the Lord's Prayer, and other portions of Scripture. In the latter part of the tenth century, the monk JELFRIC ...
◣1536 The first Act of Union united England and Wales. ◣1549 First version of The Book of Common Prayer. ◣1564 Shakespeare was born. ◣1603 Union of the English and Scottish crowns under James I (VI of Scotland). W. Shakespeare (1564-1616) England and Wales Formation of the Union ...