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Diet Worms
History of Germany
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| | 1521 | Luther, Martin | |
| Worms The Papal nuncio at the Diet, Girolamo Aleandro, draws up and proposes the fierce denunciations of Luther embodied in the edict, which permitted anyone to kill Luther without legal consequence |
| 18th April Worms Challenges the papal claim to be the sole authority on the scriptures |
| 18th April Worms Charles V opens a Diet to discuss what to do with Luther |
| 18th April Worms Rejects the belief that bread & wine can become the body & blood of Chris t |
| 18th April Worms The German Princes come out in Luther's favour |
| 21st Oct Worms 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 |
| 1522 | Luther, Martin | |
| Worms In refuge because of his denunciation by the Diet of Worms |
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