This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1539.
Events
April – Printing of the
Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) is completed; it is distributed to churches in England.[1] Prepared by
Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the
Tyndale Bible – unacknowledged as the Tyndale version is officially deemed heretical.
Unknown dates
Game Place House in
Great Yarmouth becomes the first place in England to be used regularly as a public theatre.[2]
The first printing press in
North America is set up in
Mexico City. The first known book from it, Manual de Adultos, appears in 1540.[3]
Teseo Ambrogio's Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas, published in
Pavia, introduces several
Middle Eastern languages to
Western Europe for the first time.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 145–148.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. p. 189.
ISBN0-7181-1279-2.
^"The Press in Colonial America"(PDF). A Publisher's History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1539.
Events
April – Printing of the
Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) is completed; it is distributed to churches in England.[1] Prepared by
Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the
Tyndale Bible – unacknowledged as the Tyndale version is officially deemed heretical.
Unknown dates
Game Place House in
Great Yarmouth becomes the first place in England to be used regularly as a public theatre.[2]
The first printing press in
North America is set up in
Mexico City. The first known book from it, Manual de Adultos, appears in 1540.[3]
Teseo Ambrogio's Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas, published in
Pavia, introduces several
Middle Eastern languages to
Western Europe for the first time.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 145–148.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. p. 189.
ISBN0-7181-1279-2.
^"The Press in Colonial America"(PDF). A Publisher's History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2013-08-22.