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Protestant Reformation Timeline

  • Period: 1095 to 1567

    Indulgences

    They were a piece of paper from the Church that was supposed to reduce a person's time in purgatory & help them get to heaven faster. Luther disagreed with this, saying that buying indulgences had no impact on whether or not people would get into heaven
    -Cause & SPE
  • Period: 1300 to

    Humanism

    Challenged the Catholic Church by having the idea that the individual should think for him or herself in matters of faith, and the idea that the Bible should be produced in the languages of laypeople
    -Correlation & SP
  • Period: 1478 to

    The Inquisition

    was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out & punish heresy throughout Europe & Americas
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  • Martin Luther
    1517

    Martin Luther

    He was a German theologian & religious reformer who was the catalyst of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. He is one of the most influential figures in the history of Christianity. He began the Protestant movement by rebelling against the authority of the Catholic Church
    -Cause & SPE
  • Period: 1517 to

    Timeline of the Reformation

  • Period: 1517 to 1520

    Printing Press

    It helped Martin Luther by making it easier to pass his messages along to his followers & to the educated population of Europe
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  • 95 Theses
    Oct 31, 1517

    95 Theses

    They were all detailed opinions of Luther about the teachings of the Christian Scripture and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. They were posted on the doors of the church to teach the people coming into the church
    -Cause & SPE
  • Pope Leo X
    1521

    Pope Leo X

    Was behind the Church and he encouraged indulgences while spending the donated money. His abuses of power were the tipping point for some already unhappy with excessive Church practices. Leo excommunicated Luther for voicing his opinion that was the 95 theses
    -Cause & SPE
  • Diet of Worms
    1521

    Diet of Worms

    Was an imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire, It was to determine how authorities should respond to Martin Luther's teachings
    -Effect & P
  • Period: 1521 to 1546

    Martin Luther's Excommunication

    He was excommunicated by the Catholic Church because he publicly burned the papal bull and refused to renounce his propositions. Where he later died from a stroke
  • Henry Vlll
    1527

    Henry Vlll

    The king replaced the Pope as the Head of the Church in England, causing a bitter divide between Catholics & Protestants
    -Cause & SP
  • John Calvin
    1536

    John Calvin

    He was the leading French Protestant reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. The institutional & social patterns he worked out for General deeply influenced Protestantism, his influential "Institutes of the Christian Religion" stressed the doctrine of predestination
    -Effect & SPE
  • Jesuits
    1540

    Jesuits

    They established numerous schools & universities throughout Europe to carry out Catholic education and missionary work, that helped to maintain the relevance of the Catholic Church in secular & Protestant societies
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  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent

    was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It strove to define the doctrine of the Catholic Church & answer the arguments of members of the Protestant faith
    -Effect & SP
  • Peace of Augsburg
    Sep 25, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    A treaty between Charles V & the forces of Lutheran princes that officially ended the religious struggle between them & allowed princes int he Holy Roman Empire to choose which religion would reign in their principality
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  • Elizabeth l
    1559

    Elizabeth l

    The Act of Supremacy & Act of uniformity were passed by Parliament & approved by Queen Elizabeth. Together they are known as the "Elizabeth Settlement", which established her vision of Protestantism for the Church of England
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  • St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
    Aug 25, 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

    A Brutal Brawl between Protestants & Catholics that started by Catherine de' Medici plotting to kill Protestant Leaders around Paris
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  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    It effectively ended the French Wars of Religion by granting official tolerance to Protestantism
    -Cause & SP