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Martin Luther is born in Eisleben, County of Mansfeld,
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he founded the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther taught.
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Caught in a terrible storm in Stotternheim vows to become a monk if St. Anne saves him gives up his career as a lawyer and joins the Augustinian order at the monastery in Erfurt.
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he was awarded his Doctor of Theology
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He began to teach that salvation is a gift of God's grace through Christ received by faith alone.
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he nailed his 95 Theses to a church door that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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changes his name from Luder to Luther, which may have been a Greek play on words: Martinus Eleutherios, or "Martin the Free One"
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he wrote a series of pamphlets developing his ideas 'On Christian Liberty', 'On the Freedom of a Christian Man', 'To the Christian Nobility' and 'On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church'.
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Wrote Treatise on Christian Liberty the third of Martin Luther’s major reforming treatises of 1520
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Luther burns the Papal Bull in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
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Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther
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Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant.
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He translates the New Testament from Greek into German.
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Luther returns to Lutherstadt Wittenberg and sets off a series of theological and social reforms, such as education for all
