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.

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.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The Peasants of Languedoc ( 1966 ; English translation 1974 ) search

* Poems & Fragments ( English translation ) R. J. Dent

The works and fragments ( text with English translation, 2001 ) – reviewed in BMCR

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

Alfred's first translation was of Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, which he prefaced with an introduction explaining why he thought it necessary to translate works such as this one from Latin into English.

As Alfred observed in the preface to his English translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, kings who fail to obey their divine duty to promote learning can expect earthly punishments to befall their people.

* Students often use the poor English translation of J. C. Rolfe in the Loeb Classical Library, 1935 – 1940 with many reprintings.

While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.

* English translation: The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician ( 1992 ), ISBN 0-8176-2650-6

The 1000-page autobiographical manuscript Récoltes et semailles ( 1986 ) is now available on the internet in the French original, and an English translation is underway ( these parts of Récoltes et semailles have already been translated into Russian and published in Moscow ).

An English translation of Cartier ( 1998 )

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

The 1929 English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as All Quiet on the Western Front.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

The English translation renders this as " My dear old Getafix || How good to see you here ", with the reply " Aha, an Alexandrine ".

* Adam of Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, English translation by F. J. Tschan, Columbia University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-231-12575-5.

An English translation of all three volumes, with notes, essays and appendices, was translated and edited by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, entitled Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations.

English translation by Giulio Silano, The Sentences.

Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

In January 1606, during the first sitting of Parliament since the plot, the Observance of 5th November Act 1605 was passed, making services and sermons commemorating the event an annual feature of English life ; the act remained in force until 1859.

The English language evolved in England, from a set of West Germanic dialects spoken by the Angles and Saxons, who arrived from continental Europe in the 5th century.

* 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier ( d. 1923 )

* 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English crusader ( b. 1338 )

* 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1929 )

* 1427 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman

* 1391 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician ( d. 1425 )

* June 26 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations ( d. 1923 )

* April 5 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations ( b. 1866 )

** Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, English soldier, ( in battle )

* May 19 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler ( b. 1722 )

* November 5 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler ( d. 1798 )

** Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician ( d. 1460 )

* Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier ( d. 1230 )

* August 20 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright ( b. 1639 )

** Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician ( executed ) ( b. 1400 )

* June 8 – Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader ( b. 1338 )

* November 6 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician ( d. 1425 )

* February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel ( in battle )

* January 18 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician ( b. 1391 )

* May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman

* September 10 – William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English nobleman

* October 25 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier ( b. 1180 )