| Date |
Main Event |
Other Information |
| 1507 | Ordained Priest | Finds little comfort in Catholic teaching or ritual |
| 1508 | Appointed Lecturer in the new university of Wittenberg | (blank) |
| 1510 | Visited Rome | representing the Augustinian Order |
| 1512 Oct. | Luther Promoted to Doctor of Theology | (blank) |
| 1513-17 | Lectures on St.Paul | Developing teological understanding of Justification |
| 1516 | First Sermon against Indulgences | (blank) |
| 1517.Oct. | Published 95 Theses | He had been ashamed for a long time of the activities of indulgence sellers such as Johan Tetzel. Theses are printed and distributed round germany and wider Europe |
| 1518.Apr | Defended Theses | At Chapter of Augustinian Order |
| 1518.Oct. | Meeting with Cajetan at Ausburg. | Cajetan wanted Luther to Recant. Luthre refused |
| 1519.June | Leizberg Disputation with Johann Eck | attempt by the church to push Luther to condemn himself. Declared that the Pope did not have the final authority over scripture. He condemed himself with similar ideas of Jan Hus (burned). |
| 1520. June | Excommunicated by Papal Bull; Publuished 'On the Papacy of Rome | (blank) |
| 1520. Aug | Published - 'The adress to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation | (blank) |
| 1520.Sept | Published- 'The Babylonian Captivity of the Church | (blank) |
| 1520.Nov. | Received Papal Bull; Published 'The Freedom of a Chrisian Man | (blank) |
| 1520.Dec. | Burned the Papal Bull | (blank) |
| 1521.jan | 2nd Papal Bull CONFIRMING Luther's excommunication | (blank) |
| 1521.April | Luther appeared at Diet Of Worms | Summoned by the young new CharlesV, under promise of safe conduct to and from the diet |
| 1521.May. | Edict Of Worms | Luther declared an outlaw by CharlesV. Luther Left and was 'Kidnapped' by Frederick the wise to Wartburg Castle |
| 1522.March. | Luther returns to Wittenburg. Find 'Reformation' | Reformation led by old friend Andreas Carlstadt; Luther disassocitatees himself with these events. |
| 1522.Sept | Publication of German New Testement; Knights war | (blank) |
| 1523 | Publication of 'Temporal Authority:To what extent should this be obeyed' | (blank) |
| 1524-5 | Peasents' war | defeated at Frankenhausen in May 1525 |
| 1525.Spring | Luther wrote 'Admonition To Peace | Pointed the finger at the landlords and rulers of Germany and seemingly gave justification to the peasents for SOME of thier actions |
| 1525.June | Luther married Katherine Von Bora | (blank) |
| 1525.dec | publushed 'On the Bondage of the Will' | This broke him away from the great Humanist Erasmus. |
| 1525-30 | The Reformation in Germany became more OFFICAL | (blank) |
| 1526 | Diet of Speyer | Ferdinand demanded the Edict of Worms against Lutheranism be implemented throught the empire. |
| 1529.Oct | Colloquy of Marburg | Disagreement with the Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingle over the nature of the bread and wine inthe communion service. |
| 1530 | Diet Of Augsburg | Emperor Charles V present |
| 1531.Feb. | Foundation of the League of Schmalkalden | A defensive allinance of the Princes and states who had signed the Ausburg Confession of 1530 |
