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The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

Timeline of Events

1535

10.4.1535

The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1580

7.12.1580

The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.

1844

5.24.1844

Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.

1963

6.17.1963

The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in ''Abington School District v. Schempp'' against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.