Events The Bible is translated into English. New Books 1501 - The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous) 1503 - The Thrissill and the Rois - William Dunbar 1505 - The Passtyme of Pleasure and The Temple of Glass - Stephen Hawes 1508 - The Goldyn Targe - William Dunbar 1509 - In Praise of Folly - Erasmus 1512 - Fulgens and Lucrece - Henry Medwall 1513 - First translation of the Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas about 1516 - Utopia by Thomas More 1527 - Historia Scotorum - Hector Boece 1535 - Huon of Bordeaux - John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners 1539 - The Castel of Helth - Sir Thomas Elyot 1540 - Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland 1541 - Baptistes and Jephtha - George Buchanan 1542 - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke - Edward Hall 1545 - Toxophilus - Roger Ascham about 1553 - Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language 1559 - The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America. 1560 - The Geneva Bible - William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson 1562 Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes - William Bullein Gorboduc (play) - Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville Jack Juggler (play) - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall 1563
