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500 BC: Completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts which make up the 39 Books of the Old Testament.

200 BC: Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts which contain the 39 Old Testament Books AND 14 Apocrypha Books.

1st Century AD: Completion of all Original Greek Manuscripts which make up the 27 Books of the New Testament.

390 AD: Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Manuscripts produced which contain all 80 Books (39 Old Test. + 14 Apocrypha + 27 New Test.).

500 AD: Scriptures have been translated into over 500 languages.

600 AD: Latin was the only language allwed for Scripture.

995 AD: Anglo-Saxon (early roots of English language) translations of the New Testament produced.

1384 AD: Wycliffe is the first person to produce a (hand-written) manuscript copy of the complete Bible; all 80 Books.

1455 AD: Gutenberg invents the printing press; books may now be mass-produced instead of individually hand-written. The first book ever printed is Gutenberg’s Bible in Latin.

1516 AD: Erasmus produces a Greek/Latin parallel New Testament.

1522 AD: Martin Luther’s German New Testament.

1525 AD: William Tyndale’s New Testament; the first New Testament to be printed in the English language.

1535 AD: Myles Coverdale’s Bible; the first complete Bible to be printed in the English language (80 Books: O.T. & N.T. & Apocrypha).

1537 AD: Matthews Bible; the second complete Bible to be printed in English. Done by John “Thomas Matthew” Rogers (80 Books).

1539 AD: The “Great Bible” printed; the first English language Bible to be authorized for public use (80 Books.)

1560 AD: The Geneva Bible printed; the first English language Bible to add numbered verses to each chapter (80 Books).

1568 AD: The Bishops Bible printed; the Bible of which the King James was a revision (80 Books).

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1609 AD: The Douay Old Testament is added to the Rheimes New Testament (of 1582) making the first complete English Catholic Bible; translated from the Latin Vulage (80 Books).

1611 AD: The King James Bible printed; originally with all 80 Books. The Apocrypha was officially removed in 1885 leaving only 66 Books.

1782 AD: Robert Aitken’s Bible; the first English language Bible (a King James Version without Apocrypha) to be printed in America.

1791 AD: Isaac Collins and Isaiah Thomas respectively produce the first Family Bible and first Illustrated Bible printed in America. Both were King James Versions, with all 80 Books.

1808 AD: Jane Aitken’s Bible (Daughter of Robert Aitken); the first Bible to be printed by a woman.

1833 AD: Noah Webster’s Bible; after producing his famous dictionary, Webster printed his own revision of the King James Bible.

1841 AD: English Hexapla New Testament; an early textual comparison showing the Greek and 6 famous English translations in parallel columns.

1846 AD: The Illuminated Bible; the most lavishly illustrated Bible printed in America. A King James Version, with all 80 Books.

1885 AD: The “Revised Version” Bible; the first major English revision of the King James Bible.

1901 AD: The “American Standard Version”; the first major American revision of the King James Bible.

1971 AD: The “New American Standard Bible” (NASB) is published as a “Modern and Accurate Word for Word English Translation” of the Bible.

1973 AD: The “new International Version” (NIV) is published as a “Modern and Accurate Phrase for Phrase English Translation” of the Bible.

1982 AD: The “New King James Version” (NKJV) is published as a “Modern English Version Maintaining the Original Style of the King James.”