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
- English Civil War (1642)
- Palace of Versailles built (1661)
- Thirty Years' War ends (1648)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- Thirty Years' War begins (1618)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Don Quixote (1605)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)