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1518
 
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Philipp Melanchthon joins the Wittenberg university to teach Greek and inspires Luther to translate the New Testament        
c. 1520
 
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Europe's new printing presses make possible the first pamphlet war, spreading instant arguments for and against the Reformation      
1520
 
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Luther's writings are burnt in Rome by order of the pope      
1521
 
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Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther after he has refused to recant       
1521
 
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Luther travels to the German city of Worms to present his case to an imperial diet       
1521
 
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Luther bears witness to a Protestant conscience, stating at Worms: 'Here I stand, I can not do otherwise.'       
1522
 
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Outlawed by the Edict of Worms, Luther lives secretly in the Wartburg as Junker Georg        
1522
 
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Huldreich Zwingli eats sausage in Lent in Zurich, launching the Swiss Reformation      
1523
 
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Hans Sachs, popular poet and master singer, describes Luther as the Wittenberg nightingale       
1524
 
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William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English