Martin Luther

Chronology

11/10/1483 Born in Eisleben
1505 Monk in Erfurt
1512 Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg
1517 The 95 Theses nailed to the Door of the Castle Church
1520 Luther burns the papal bull of excommunication
1521 At the Imperial Diet of Worms, Luther refuses to recant
1521 While in hiding at the Wartburg, Eisenach, Luther translated the New Testament into German
1525 Luther weds Katharina von Bora; a number of polemical tracts follow
1529 "The Small Catechism"
1534 The Publication of the first Wittenberg Bible, Old and New Testaments, in Martin Luther's German translation
2/18/1546 Luther dies in Eisleben and is laid to rest in the Castle Church in Wittenberg

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