Martin luthar

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  • Nov 10, 1483

    Born

    November 10, 1483, Eisleben, Germany
  • Period: 1492 to 1546

    martin luthar

  • Mar 9, 1508

    Received a bachelor's degree in Biblical studies

  • 1516

    Start of the Reformation

    Roman Catholic Church starts to sell indulgence
  • 1517

    writes Ninety-five Theses

    writes Ninety-five Theses
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Sends letter to church

    Luther sent the Theses enclosed with a letter to Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, on 31 October 1517, a date now considered the start of the Reformation and commemorated annually as Reformation Day.
  • 1521

    Excommunication by the pope

    Excommunication by the pope
    His refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor. -wiki
  • 1523

    marries

    Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, one of 12 nuns he had helped escape from the Nimbschen Cistercian convent in April 1523, when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels.[
  • 1525

    Writes bondage of will

    written in response to On Free Will by Desiderius Erasmus
  • 1526

    Starts own church

  • Feb 18, 1546

    martin luthar dies

    died on February 18, 1546, in Eisleben, Germany