The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

This resulted in revisions of the King James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in 1901 as the American Standard Version.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

The article proceeded to give an inaccurate account of a Catholic plot to kill King James 1.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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** Amos at Wikisource ( Authorised King James Version )

* Violant of Hungary or Yolanda ( c. 1215 – 12 October 1251 ), wife of King James I of Aragon

* 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland ( later to become King James I of England ) takes place.

The Textus Receptus, in turn, was used for the New Testament found in the English-language King James Bible.

* 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.

Alicante was finally taken in 1246 by the Castilian king Alfonso X, but it passed soon and definitely to the Kingdom of Valencia in 1298 with King James II of Aragon.

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During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

* 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

In Canada they included soldier and governor of Quebec James Murray, Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and politician and social reformer Tommy Douglas.

* 1927 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Quebec ( b. 1847 )

* 1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.

The new regiment fought at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 in the campaign which finally wrested Canada from France ; at Quebec it won from General James Wolfe the motto Celer et Audax ( Swift and Bold ).

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

He was offered a position at Queen's University teaching political science by James Corry, who later became principal of Queen's, but turned it down because he preferred to teach in Quebec.

These included Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ) and Vancouver Island, where Governor James Douglas encouraged black immigration because of his opposition to slavery and because he hoped a significant black community would form a bulwark against those who wished to unite the island with the United States.

A British force under James Wolfe moved up the Saint Lawrence with the aim of capturing Quebec.

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

* December 3 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

British victories continued in all theaters in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759, when they finally captured Ticonderoga, James Wolfe defeated Montcalm at Quebec ( in a battle that claimed the lives of both commanders ), and victory at Fort Niagara successfully cut off the French frontier forts further to the west and south.

In 1798, he began to study medicine with Sir James Fisher of Quebec.

Having captured Louisbourg in 1758, the British sailed up to Quebec the following year thanks to charts drawn up by James Cook.

* James Bay Cree-Grand Council of the Crees ; approximately 16, 357 Cree ( Iyyu in Coastal Dialect / Iynu in Inland Dialect ) of the James Bay and Nunavik regions of Northern Quebec.

* James Murray ( British Army officer ) ( 1721 / 22 – 1794 ), Scottish military officer and governor of Quebec

The song makes reference to James Wolfe capturing Quebec in 1759 during the Seven Years ' War and the Battle of Queenston Heights and Battle of Lundy's Lane during the War of 1812.

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

* 1955 – James Reilly, Irish politician

* 1937 – James Florio, American politician

* 1803 – James Curtiss, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( d. 1859 )

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

* 1925 – James Sullivan, American politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1924 – James A. McClure, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* 1957 – Carole James, Canadian politician

* 1892 – James Forrestal, American politician, Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1949 )

* 1929 – James Schlesinger, American politician

* 1901 – Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly ( d. 1980 )

For New Zealand they included politician Peter Fraser and outlaw James Mckenzie.

* 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist ( d. 1938 )

* 1950 – James Hahn, American politician

* 1831 – James Monroe, American politician, 5th President of the United States ( b. 1758 )

* 1868 – James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States ( b. 1791 )

* 1960 – James M. Kelly, American politician

* 1793 – James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College ( d. 1862 )

* 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician ( d. 1940 )

James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger ( 13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844 ) was an English lawyer, politician and judge.

* 1879 – James F. Byrnes, American politician ( d. 1972 )

* 1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish nobleman, soldier, and politician ( d. 1773 )