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On this date, Luther nailed a list of 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg.
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Many pesents, meanwhile, wanted not only reform of the clergy but also lower taxes. In 1524 and 1525, pesents rebelled against the German princes. They expected Luther's encouragement, but he opposed political revolution and instead urged tem to stop fighting. When they did not, he called on the nobility to crush the revolt.
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John Calvin (a French religious scholoar) joined the reformers in Geneva and developed the form of Protestants belief called Calvinism
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