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Luther is sent to Rome on monastic business and sees the corruption of the Church.
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Luther posts his 95 theses on a church door in Wittenburg in Germany, formally beginning the Protestant Reformation in Europe
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Luther defends his beliefs in front of Augustinians, and refuses to recant. Frederick the Wise protects him from being handed over to Rome.
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Luther debates papal infallibility and begins a New Testament sermon series.
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Luther is told by papal bull to recant within 60 days or be excommunicated, but he instead burns the bull and writes three texts
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First Protestant university founded in Marburg.
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Simon Fish finishes writing his ‘A Supplication for the Beggars’ in Antwerp
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Philipp Melanchthon, a collaborator with Luther, presents the Augsburg Confession, a statement of Lutheran arguments. The Schmalkadic League is formed by Protestants against the Emperor Charles V.
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Frankfurt declares a truce between Catholic and Protestant areas.
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Luther writes Against the Papacy at Rome.
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Luther dies.
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Publication of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.