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Johann Gutenberg invents a way to print books quickly and cheaply. Five hundred books could now be made in the time it had taken to make only one.
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Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses began the Reformation.
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Pope Leo excommunicates MArtin Luther from the Catholic Church because he was going against the church. He stated that he wanted the full reform of the church and Pope Leo excommunicated him .
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Luther's "Address to the Christian Nobility" appeared; 4000 copies sold in 2 weeks; Luther dedicated a summary to the Emperor Charles V at the request of Frederick.
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Luther publicly burned "Exsurge Domine" at Wittenberg.
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Ignatius Loyola gives up life as a noble to serve god and Cathoic Church.
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German peasants talk of Christian freedom, demanded an end to serfdom. The revolt horrified Luther which made him write a pamphlet urging the German princes to show the peasants no mercy. The German armies crushed the revolt . Feeling betrayed, many peasants rejected Luther's religious leadership.
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Northern German princes who supported Lutheranism ecame known as Protestants, But princes that were loyal to the Pope agreed to join forces against Luther's ideas. Catholic. Charles V went to war against the Protestant princes. The Protestants were defeated in 1547 but Charles failed in getting them back to the Catholic churches.
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Henry no longer recognizes the Pope's authority, creates the Church of England. Parliament names him head of the church.
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Calvin and his followers create the first Christian-Protestant government.
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The Parliament in Paris declared that all works of heresy should be turned over in three days, including Calvin's "Institutes."
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Luther died; in his pocket was found a piece of paper which read, in part, "This is true, we are all beggers."