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c. 1494 - 1536Life of linguist, scholar, and Reformer William Tyndale, the first to translate the Bible into English.
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1506 - 1515Tyndale enrolled at Oxford University, earning his BA and MA and being ordained as a priest.
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1521Tyndale is tutor to the children of Sir John Walsh.
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c. 1522Tyndale embraces the concepts of Martin Luther's Reformation.
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1525 - 1526Tyndale translates the New Testament into English and publishes it in Germany, smuggling copies into England.
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1530Tyndale publishes his The Practice of Prelates, condemning Henry VIII's attempt to annul his marriage.
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1534Tyndale revises his translation of the New Testament, works on translating Old Testament.
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1535William Tyndale is betrayed by his friend Henry Phillips and imprisoned.
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1536Tyndale is convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation; his body is then burned at the stake.