Reformation Important Dates

Question 0

95 theses nailed to the door in Wittenberg

Answer 0

1517

Question 1

Tetzel starts selling indulgences

Answer 1

1514

Question 2

Meeting at Augsburg with Luther

Answer 2

1518

Question 3

Luther is excommunicated (papal bull issued by Pope Leo X)

Answer 3

1521

Question 4

Diet of Worms

Answer 4

1521

Question 5

The peasants war

Answer 5

1524-1525

Question 6

Schmalkaldic league formed with 8 princes and 11 cities

Answer 6

1531

Question 7

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 7

1555

Question 8

Ignatius Loyola begins Spiritual Exercises

Answer 8

1522

Question 9

Paul III becomes pope

Answer 9

1534

Question 10

Jesuit order founded by Pope Paul III

Answer 10

1540

Question 11

Roman Inquisition founded

Answer 11

1542

Question 12

Council of Trent first session

Answer 12

1545-7

Question 13

Council of Trent second session

Answer 13

1551-2

Question 14

Roman Index of Prohibited Books

Answer 14

1559

Question 15

Council of Trent third session

Answer 15

1562-3

Question 16

Zwingli’s reformation in Zürich, Switzerland

Answer 16

1523

Question 17

First edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

Answer 17

1536

Question 18

Calvin’s first ministry in Geneva

Answer 18

1536-8

Question 19

Calvin returns to Geneva

Answer 19

1541

Question 20

Genevan Academy founded

Answer 20

1559

Question 21

Defeat of Libertines, growth of Calvinism in France

Answer 21

1555

Question 22

Luther denounces Carlstadt and Zwickau profits

Answer 22

1522

Question 23

Catholic league formed to challenge league of Schmalkalden

Answer 23

1538

Question 24

League of Torgau formed

Answer 24

1551

Question 25

Maurice of Saxony joined league of Torgau and allied with Henry II of France

Answer 25

1552

Question 26

Treaty of Passau between Emperor and Maurice of Saxony where Lutheran Princes allowed freedom to worship until next Diet, and Philip of Hesse and John Frederick released.

Answer 26

1552

Question 27

Battle of Mühlberg where the Schmalkaldic league are defeated

Answer 27

1547

Question 28

In Praise of Folly written and published

Answer 28

1509 and 1511

Question 29

Erasmus’ Greek New Testament published

Answer 29

1516

Question 30

Luther’s death

Answer 30

1546

Question 31

Ecclesiastical Ordinances published

Answer 31

1541

Question 32

The second edition of the Greek NT had sold over 3000 copies

Answer 32

1519

Question 33

The Consistory had a right to excommunicate persistent sinners

Answer 33

1555

Question 34

By this time only 14% of the Consistory’s cases were religious, they were mainly personal/moral eg. Sexual misconduct

Answer 34

1550

Question 35

Jerome Bolsec denies Double Predestination

Answer 35

1551

Question 36

The fall of Münster

Answer 36

1535

Question 37

Leo X issues new indulgence for Tetzel to sell for money to construct St Peter’s

Answer 37

1517

Question 38

Around 300,000 copies of Martin Luther’s work printed between

Answer 38

1517-1520

Question 39

Luther’s New Testament in German

Answer 39

1522

Question 40

The first Diet of Speyer

Answer 40

1526

Question 41

Peace of Crépy between Charles V and Francis I

Answer 41

1544

Question 42

Location of Trent suggested for a council by Charles V

Answer 42

1542

Question 43

Council of Mantua (that Paul III called and no Protestants turned up)

Answer 43

1536

Question 44

Servetus burned at the stake

Answer 44

1553