Reformation centenary broadsheet
1617 · Resource
A printed souvenir broadsheet made in Leipzig for the first centenary of the Reformation, depicting Luther's pen toppling the pope's tiara. It celebrates print and Protestant identity on the eve of the Thirty Years' War.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1617
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)