The Reformation
1517–1648 · Event
The Protestant schism from Luther's 95 Theses to the Peace of Westphalia — splitting Western Christianity and reshaping European politics.
On these timelines: The Reformation, Germany, Christianity, Major Religions, Master
More from The Reformation
- Calvin's Geneva becomes a model (1541)
- Luther burns the papal bull (1520)
- The Leipzig Disputation (1519)
- Luther excommunicated (1521)
- Luther hides at the Wartburg (1521)
- Tyndale is strangled and burned (1536)
- Zwingli's reformation in Zurich (1523)
- The Marburg Colloquy splits the reformers (1529)
Around 1517
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- William Shakespeare (1564)