birth of martin luther

birth of martin luther

Nov 10, 1483

Luther's father, a farmer's son, moved from Eisleben (only in German) to Mansfeld shortly after Luther's birth in 1484 to try to better the family's financial situation by mining copper

History on Martin Luther

Period: Nov 10, 1483 to Feb 18, 1546

the beinging of the reformation

Mar 13, 1500

rebirth of learning led to the change of politics, economy, and religion.

masters degree

Jan 6, 1505

he was advanced to the master's degree, being second among seventeen applicants.

luther appointed professor

Jan 11, 1508

Luther was appointed Professor of Theology at this Augustinain Monastery at Wittenberg

giving wrong directions

Mar 13, 1510

Luther thoroughly approved even advocated drinking heavily. When a young man wrote to him complaining of despair at the prospect of going to hell, Luther wrote back advising him to go and get drunk. That, he said, was what he did when he felt despair.Luther also thoroughly approved of sex; he said that a woman had the right to take on a lover, if her husband wasn't able to satisfy her in bed - and the husband should look on this with equanimity.

concordat of bologna

Mar 13, 1516

In 1516 the Concordat of Bologna confirmed François Ier's right to make appointments to benefices, but gave the Pope the right to veto unqualified candidates and to collect a year's revenue from each post. Although this gave the Pope many rights, it gave the king more.

the 95 theses

Oct 31, 1517

martin luther posted the 95 theses on the castle doors

slients

Jan 13, 1519

led Luther to agree to remain silent as long as his opponents would, to write a humble letter to the pope, and to compose a treatise demonstrating his reverence for the Catholic Church.

gathering of the reform-minded preachers

Mar 13, 1520

The Bishop of Meaux, Guillaume Briçonnet, gathered a circle of inquiring intellects and passionate, reform-minded preachers around him there during the early 1520s. There was no particular intention of breaking from the church at this time, merely a passion for improving it.

receving the bull

Oct 10, 1520

Luther received the bull on

diets

Jan 22, 1521

Emperor Charles V opened the imperial Diet of Worms

the return of luther

Mar 15, 1522

Luther secretly returned to Wittenberg

marriage of martin luther

Jun 13, 1525

He married Katharina von Bora in 1525

portrait

Jan 15, 1529

he had a portrait made of himself

Publication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Mar 13, 1536

Calvin published The Institutes of the Christian Religion in Latin and the to the publication of the Institutes in 1541 which had the most profound effect of any book other than the Bible.

death of martin luther

Feb 18, 1546

he died from suffuring from a ill health disorder for years

founding the society of jesus

Mar 13, 1559

Ignatius Loyola applied a very military sensibility to the development of spirituality, and founded the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits took education of the laity and the common clergy as one of their special goals. They answered to no earthly power but the Pope, and served as the premier strike force of the Counter-Reformation. By 1559, they were were a world power.