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Martin Luther was born to Hans Luder and Margarethe in Eisleben, Germany.
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Martin Luther goes to Rome.
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He studied these parts of the Bible and he became convinced that the church was corrupt in its ways and had lost sight of the central truths of Christianity.
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The 95 These protests against abuses at work, especially in regard to indulgences. It gained lots of popularity over a short period of time.
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On this day, Martin Luther wrote to Albrecht, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, protesting the sale of indulgences. He believed that only God could grant forgiveness and that it was wrong to claimed that indulgences prevented buyers from all punishments. This was said to be the start of the Protestant Reformation.
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Martin Luther is excommunicated (suspend membership in a religious community) from the church in Rome.
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Martin Luther publicly set fire to the bull and decretals at Wittenberg on 10 December 1520.
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Arrives at the Diet of Worms, which is an assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Martin Luther leaves the Diet of Worms after 9 days.
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Luther preached eight sermons, known as the "Invocavit Sermons," which stressed the importance of love, patience, charity and freedom.
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Luther had been suffering from ill health for years, including Ménière's disease, vertigo, fainting, tinnitus, a cataract in one eye, kidney and bladder stones, and arthritis. He dies of an apoplectic stroke.
