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| 1483 | Luther, Martin |  |
| Eisleben Birth of Martin Luther, Eisleben, Saxony, the son of a wealthy copper miner |
| 1512 | Luther, Martin | |
| Erfurt Appointed Professor at Erfurt University |
| 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 |
| 1519 | Luther, Martin | |
| Luther admits to holding the same views as John Huss, a heretic |
| Rome Luther is forced to deny the divine authority of the Church |
| Luther is summoned to Rome on a charge of heresy for implying the Pope is fallible |
| Luther wants Germany to be liberated from the clergy by the Princes |
| Publication of, "An Address to the Nobility of the German Nation" |
| Publication of, "On the Babyonian Captivity of the Church of God" |
| Publication of, "On the Freedom of a Chris tian Man" |
| States the clergy should be deprived of their privileges |
| 1520 | Luther, Martin | |
| Luther's books are publicly burned in Louvain by the Papal Nuncio Aleander |
| Pope Leo X had issues the Papal Bull Exsurge Domine, demanding that Luther retract forty-one of his 95 theses criticising the Church |
| June The Pope bans Luther's works |
| 22nd Sep Luther is excommunicated by the Pope |
| 10th Dec Wittenberg Publicly burns the Papal Bull at Wittenberg |
| 1521 | Luther, Martin | |
| Captured for his own safety by Duke Frederick of Saxony |
| Wartburg Castle Prince Frederick seizes Luther and hides him in Wartburg Castle, during his time in Wartburg Luther begins his German translation of the Bible |
| 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 |
| 3rd Jan Burns the papal bull condemning his 95 theses & is excommunicated by Pope Leo X |
| April Worms Tried before the Emperor at the Diet of Worms & put under the ban of the Empire |
| 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 |
| 25th May Worms Charles issues the Edict of Worms , declaring Martin Luther an outlaw, banning his writings, and requiring his arrest: "We want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic" |
| 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 |
| 1522 | Luther, Martin | |
| Worms In refuge because of his denunciation by the Diet of Worms |
| Trans lates the Bible into German |
| 1523 | Luther, Martin | |
| 1st July Antwerp Two of Luther's followers, Augustine monks from Antwerp, are burnt alive |
| 1524 | Luther, Martin | |
| Luther gives up monastic life & abandons his vows |
| 1525 | Munzer, Thomas | |
| 7th May The leader of the southern peasant revolt is beheaded |
| 1526 | Luther, Martin | |
| Formalizes the basis of Protestant worship |
| The Edict of Worms is temporarily suspended at the Diet of Speyer in 1526 but then reinstated in 1529 |
| 1529 | Luther, Martin | |
| The Edict of Worms is temporarily suspended at the Diet of Speyer in 1526 but then reinstated in 1529 |
| 1530 | Luther, Martin | |
| Augsburg A statement of Protestant faith held by the German reformers |
| Augsburg Presented Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg & forming the creed of the Lutheran Church |
| Augsburg Presented to Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg, the creed of the Lutheran Church |
| 27th Feb German Protestants form the Schmaldik League to resist the power of Emperor Charles V |
| 1530 | Melanchthon, Philip | |
| 25th June Augsburg A statement of faith prepared by Philip Melanchthon |
| 25th June Augsburg At the Diet of Augsberg Lutherans deliver the Confession of Augsberg |
| 25th June Augsburg Designed to engender reconciliation with the Catholic Church |
| 1545 | Luther, Martin | |
| Trent The Church tries to reunite but the divisions are re-inforced |
| 1546 | Luther, Martin | |
| 18th Feb Eisleben Dies in Eisleben, his place of birth |
| 1933 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| The Conference of Protestant Churches is declared illegal |
