1483, 10 Nov - Martin Luther is born in Eisleben, third child of Hans and Margarethe Luther.
1505, April - Luther graduates master's at Erfurt University.
1505, 3 July - Luther's "Storm Experience," vows to become a monk.
1505, 17 July - Luther joins the Hermits of St Augustine in Erfurt.
1507, May - Luther says his first Mass.
1511 - Luther's pilgrimage in Rome.
1512, 19 Oct - Luther receives his doctorate, and is appointed Doctor in Biblia' at Wittenberg University.
1513-14 - Luther lectures on the Psalms.
1515 - Luther lectures on Romans, and discovers the doctrine of justification by faith.
1517
1517, March - Luther begins series on Hebrews.
1517, Good Friday - Johann Tetzel arrives in Jüterborg, and begins sales of indulgences.
1517, August - Luther completes Disputation against Scholastic Theology.
1517, 31 October - Luther issues Ninety-Five Theses, sending a copy to Prince-Archbishop Albrecht of Brandenburg.
1518
1518, April - Luther at the Heidelberg conference of the Hermits of St Augustine.
1518, spring - Luther's A Sermon on Indulgence and Grace is published.
1518, August - Luther publishes Explanation Concerning the Ninety-Five Theses.
- Emperor Maximilian pledges in letter to Leo X to "set a stop to the most perilous attack of Martin Luther . . . lest not only people but even princes may be seduced."
- Luther receives "A Dialogue against Martin Luther's Presumptuous Theses concerning the Power of the Pope' from Dominican Sylvester Prieras on behest of Pope Leo X, with a summon to appear in Rome within sixty days.
- Augustinians of Saxony ordered by the head office in Rome to surrender Luther to Rome "bound in chains, fetters and handcuffs" (25 August).
1518, 7 October - Leo X writes Friedrich the Wise to woo the latter not to support Luther but to surrender him to the see of Rome.
- Cajetan interviews Luther at Diet of Augsburg but fails to get Luther to recant (12-14 Oct).
1518, 9 November - Leo issues the bull Cum Postquam ('When After') stating forthwith that indulgences is a matter of Church doctrine and anyone who questions their sale may be treated as a heretic.
- Friedrich the Wise writes Maximilian for Luther's case to be heard in Germany instead of Rome (19 November).
- Luther lodges a public appeal with a notary for his case to be heard by a general council of the Church (28 November).
1519
1519, 12 January - Emperor Maximilian dies.
1519, 27 June-13 July - Leipzig debate between Johann Eck and Karlstadt and Luther.
28 June - Charles V elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1520, 15 June - Leo X issues Exsurge Domini, excommunicating Luther.
1520, May - Luther publishes Sermon on Good Works.
1520, June - Luther publishes The Papacy at Rome.
1520, August - Luther publishes Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation.
1520, September - Luther publishes The Babylonian Captivity.
1520, 10 October - Luther receives his copy of Exsurge Domini.
- Luther responds with Against the Execrable Bull of the Antichrist.
1520, November - Luther publishes The Freedom of the Christian Man.
1520, 10 December - Luther burns his copy of the bull of excommunication.
1521
1521, 27 January - Diet of Worms opens.
1521, 16 April - Luther arrives in Worms, and is questioned over the next day, and makes his famous 'Here I Stand' reply the following day..
1521, 26 April - Luther leaves Worms, and is soon kidnapped, and taken to Wartburg Castle, where he stays until the following March.
1521, 1 December - Pope X dies.
1521, Christmas - Luther begins translating the New Testament into German.
1522
1522, 6 March - Luther leaves Wartburg and returns to Wittenberg.
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1523, 1 January - Luther publishes On Secular Authority.
1524,
1525, 17 April - The Weinberg Massacre.
1525, 5 May - Friedrich the Wise dies.
- Luther responds, in the light of the Weinberg Massacre, with Against the Murderous and Theiving Hordes.
1525, 13 June - Luther marries Katherine von Bora.
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