The Reformation
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Key events on this timeline
- The Reformation (1517)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Diet of Worms (1521)
- Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) (1500)
- Peace of Augsburg (1555)
- Council of Trent (1545)
- Luther's German Bible (1534)
- St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)
- German Peasants' War (1524)
- Counter-Reformation (1540)
- Augsburg Confession (1530)
- Calvin's Geneva becomes a model (1541)
- Luther burns the papal bull (1520)
- Society of Jesus founded (1540)
- Luther excommunicated (1521)
- The Leipzig Disputation (1519)
- Luther hides at the Wartburg (1521)
- Tyndale's English New Testament (1526)
- Tyndale is strangled and burned (1536)
- Zwingli's reformation in Zurich (1523)
- Schmalkaldic League founded (1531)
- The Marburg Colloquy splits the reformers (1529)
- The King's Great Matter (1527)
- Münster Rebellion (1534)
- Schmalkaldic War (1546)
- Scottish Reformation (1560)
- 'Paris is worth a mass' (1593)
- Cromwell becomes the king's chief minister (1532)
- Battle of Mühlberg (1547)
- The Edict of January tolerates the Huguenots (1562)