The American Standard Version is published.

The death of Brooke Foss Westcott.

Sir Robert Anderon is knighted upon his retirement from the Criminal Investigation Department of London.

U.S. President McKinley is assassinated.

The Ferrar Fenton Bible is officially published (1853).

The Wright Brothers conduct their first mid-air flight.

Charles F. Baker, pioneer of the grace movement, is born.

The infamous "Bloody Sunday" takes place during the Russian Revolution.

Einstein composes his Theory of Relativity.

Alfred Binet proposes a new method of identifying children with learning problems. These simple neutral tests would come to be known as the Intelligent Quotient (IQ).

Henry Ford introduces the Model-T.

The Scofield Reference Bible (SRB) is published using the original King James Bible as its base.

The Edinburgh Conference attempts to establish a cooperation of religious pluralism.

The Titanic sinks in the Atlantic Ocean.

The death of E.W. Bullinger.

The death of Eberhard Nestle. The work of translation would then pass on to his son, Erwin Nestle (1927).

World War I begins at the onslaught of an assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

The Scofield Reference Bible is revised.

The U.S. enters World War I.

Harry Anderson translates the Codex Sinaiticus into English.

The death of Sir Robert Anderson.

The Treaty of Versailles ends World War I.

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible is completed posthumously.

Hitler's Mein Kampf is first published.

Erwin Nestle publishes the most comprehensive Nestle Greek New Testament to date in this 13th edition.

Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Great Depression begins with the crash of the New York Stock Exchange.

Fascist leader of Italy, Mussolini, makes a famed declaration about the value of war.

"War alone raises all human energy to the highest pitch and stamps with nobility the people who have the courage to make it." - B. Mussolini

Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and the first concentration camp is established.

A fundamental newspaper called, The Sword of the Lord, is first published under the direction and leadership of John R. Rice.

Black and White television is introduced in the United Kingdom.

World War II begins.

The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

World War II's D-Day takes place with the worst casualty loss in recorded history on a single day.

C.R.Stam and Charles F. Baker establish the Milwaukee Bible Institute.

World War II shifts with the suicide of Hitler, the surrender of Germany, and the bombing of Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Signals an unofficial end of World War II.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered.

The Nag Hammadi Library is found by peasants in Egypt. These gnostic works (including the most famous Gospel of Thomas) were leather-bound papyrus.

Israel becomes a nation.

The New World Translation is published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. This would become the Bible of Jehovah's Witnesses (previously they used the KJV or ASV).

Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his questionable and fearful tactics of rooting out communism in America.

The Korean War begins.

The color television is introduced.

Japan signs a peace treaty with the U.S. officially ending World War II.

The Revised Standard Version is published.

Erwin Nestle hires Kurt Aland as editor of the 21st edition of the Nestle Greek New Testament.

In a prequel to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus.

The videotape recorder is invented.

Russia launches Sputnik and thus launches the United States into an educational push for competing achievement.

French President Charles de Gaulle becomes a relatively strong spokesperson of anti-Americanism upon the rise of power in the United States since World War II.

First presidential debates that are televised for a viewing audience.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march on Washington D.C.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX on November 22.

C.S. Lewis dies at his Oxford home on November 22.

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Peter Ruckman founded Pensacola Bible Institute having cited disagreements with other Biblical institutes (mainly Bob Jones, his alma mater) regarding their use of translatation text.

The U.S. sends troops to Vietnam.

Kurt Aland and Bruce Metzger publish their own Greek New Testament (1st edition).

Kurt Aland and Bruce Metzger publish their Second Edition Greek New Testament.

Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis.

Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.

The New English Bible (1970) is published with reference to Alexandrian-Type manuscripts.

Charles F. Baker publishes A Dispensational Theology.

The New American Standard Bible is published.

The Living Bible is published as a paraphrase text built out of the American Standard Bible of 1901 rather than the original languages.

Terrorist attacks commence at the Olympic Games in Munich.

The Watergate scandal begins to plague Nixon's White House.

Abortion is legalized in the United States.

The United States pulls troops out of Vietnam.

U.S. President Nixon resigns.

Kurt Aland and Bruce Metzger publish their third edition Greek New Testament.

The Good News Translation is published as a "thought for thought" rather than "word for word" edition.

William F. Beck publishes his God's Word Translation as a mission-focused Bible for the nations.

The New International Version is published.

The New King James Version is initially published as a New Testament Only.

Iran takes American hostages in Tehran.

Kurt Aland completes the debated "26th edition" of the Nestle series.

The death of John R. Rice, founder of Sword of the Lord. Curtis Hutson takes over the newspaper as editor and publisher until his death in 1995.

Ted Turner establishes CNN as a major television news network.

Aland and Aland publish The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Within its bounds, a reader is meant to understand the reason for Nestle's altered changes in the 26th edition of the Nestle Greek New Testament.

The full New King James Version (1979) is completed and published.

The Recovery Version of the Bible is published by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, two Chinese men who were instrumental in spreading Christianity throughout Eastern Asia.

The space shuttle Challenger explodes.

The Revised English Bible is published as an update of the NEB (1970).

The Berlin Wall falls.

Worldwide interconnection of computer networks through Internet enables rapid electronic mail communication.

The Soviet Union collapses.

Operation Desert Storm begins the first War in Iraq.

Kurt Aland, his wife Barbara, Bruce Metzger, and other modern scholars create the well-known current 4th Edition Greek New Testament used almost everywhere in the present day.

The first bombing of the World Trade Center.

The genocide of Rwanda begins.

The death of Curtis Hutson, editor and publisher of Sword of the Lord. Shelton Smith takes over the newspaper as editor and publisher through to the present day.

The Oklahoma City Bombing.

The Contemporary English Version (CEV) is published as a representative of the American Bible Society (1816).

The New Living Translation is published building from the "thought for thought" concept of the Good News Translation (1976).

Work is begun on the World English Bible. This effort is currently incomplete, but its intent is to transliterate from the ASV (1901), the majority text (1516).

The Third Millenium Bible (New Authorized Version or NAV) is published.

The American King James Bible is published with an aim toward establishing an equivalent word-for-word translation as the original King James, but with updated spelling and vocabulary.