| Date | Event |
| c. 15th–13th century BC | Moses; the giving of the Law (dating debated) |
| c. 1000 BC | David and the Psalms |
| 586 BC | Fall of Jerusalem; the exile |
| c. 538–444 BC | Return from exile; Ezra and Nehemiah |
| c. 400 BC | Close of the Old Testament writings |
| 3rd century BC | Beginning of the Septuagint at Alexandria |
| 167 BC | Maccabean revolt |
| c. 125 BC | Great Isaiah Scroll (Qumran) |
| c. AD 30 | Death and resurrection of Christ; Pentecost |
| c. AD 50 | Earliest letters of Paul |
| c. AD 95 | Revelation written |
| c. AD 125 | Papyrus P52 (John) |
| c. AD 140 | Marcion’s shortened canon |
| c. AD 170–180 | Diatessaron; Muratorian Fragment; Irenaeus on the four Gospels |
| AD 303–305 | Diocletian’s persecution and order to surrender the books |
| AD 325 | Council of Nicaea (no canon list) |
| AD 367 | Athanasius’s Festal Letter lists the 27 books |
| AD 382–405 | Jerome produces the Vulgate |
| AD 393 and 397 | Synod of Hippo and Third Council of Carthage |
| c. AD 930 and 1008 | Aleppo Codex and Leningrad Codex |
| c. 1382 | Wycliffe Bible |
| c. 1455 | Gutenberg Bible |
| 1516 | Erasmus’s Greek New Testament |
| 1522 | Luther’s German New Testament |
| 1526 | Tyndale’s English New Testament |
| 1535 | Coverdale Bible |
| 1536 | Tyndale martyred |
| 1539 | The Great Bible |
| 1546 | Council of Trent on the canon and the Vulgate |
| 1560 | Geneva Bible |
| 1604 | Hampton Court Conference |
| 1611 | King James Version |
| 1769 | Standard Oxford text of the KJV |
| 1804 | British and Foreign Bible Society founded |
| 1844 and 1859 | Tischendorf finds Codex Sinaiticus |
| 1881 | Westcott and Hort’s Greek New Testament; Revised Version (NT) |
| 1942 | Wycliffe Bible Translators founded |
| 1947 | Dead Sea Scrolls discovered |