Thomas More's Utopia is published.

was unknown until 1516 when Sir Thomas More, a prominent London lawyer and Humanist, published Utopia in Latin. Destined to become one of the great works of political theory, it was printed in the Netherlands because the English printing industry was still in its infancy. It was quickly exported to England, however, where it was widely read. No less a scholar than Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, More’s good friend and proponent of Humanism, oversaw the book’s printing.