id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3694 16th century in literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 5272 622 69 Find sources: "16th century in literature" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Spring – The first complete printed translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, having been printed in Worms. January – The first printed translation of the Torah in English, by William Tyndale, is published in Antwerp for distribution in Britain. October 17 – The poet Sir Philip Sidney (born 1554) dies of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen. June 4 – Bishops' Ban of 1599: Thomas Middleton's Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires and John Marston's Scourge of Villainy are publicly burned as the English ecclesiastical authorities clamp down on published satire. The Byrth of Mankynde, the first printed book in English on obstetrics, and one of the first published in England to include engraved plates ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3694.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3694.txt