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95 Theses
History of Germany
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| | 1517 | Luther, Martin | |
| 21st Oct Wittenberg Luther is said to have posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany |
| 31st Oct Wittemberg Disagrees with selling remissions for sins |
| 31st Oct Wittemberg Nails list of 95 theses attacking use of indulgences on the Church door at Wittemberg |
| 31st Oct Wittemberg Provoked by the sale of Papal indulgences by the Archbishop of Mainz |
| 31st Oct Wittemberg The 95 Theses spread over most of Europe within 1 yr |
| 1521 | Luther, Martin | |
| 3rd Jan Burns the papal bull condemning his 95 theses & is excommunicated by Pope Leo X |
| 21st Oct Wittenberg Pope Leo X wishes for Martin Luther to recant 41 of these theses, which Luther famously refused to do before the Diet of Worms in 1521, thus symbolically initiating the Protestant reformation |
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