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King James Version Bible

England · Religion / Church of England. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1604

James IJanuary 1604

Hampton Court · Religion / Church of England

The Hampton Court Conference also bore fruit for the Puritans, who insisted that man know Gods word without intermediaries, as it led to Jamess commissioning of that translation of the Christian Bible into the English vernacular, which would be known as the Authorised Version because it alone was authorised to be read in Churches. It is now commonly described as the King James Version

Names involved

James I

Provenance

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