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1524
 
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William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English        
1525
 
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Luther, a former friar, marries Catherine von Bora, a former nun who has just emerged from her convent      
1525
 
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Thomas Müntzer leads the rebels in the Peasant War, to the profound displeasure of Luther        
c. 1525
 
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Lucas Cranach's studio in Wittenberg has a profitable line in naked female figures from mythology      
Cranach Cupid complaining to Venus (detail) c.1532
National Gallery, London

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1529
 
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The 'Protestation' of various princes and imperial cities at Speyer identifies them as Protestants      
1529
 
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Protestant reformers Luther and Zwingli disagree at Marburg on the nature of the Eucharist        
1530
 
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The Augsburg Confession, presented by Melanchthon to the imperial diet, defines the Lutheran faith      
1530
 
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German botanist Otto Brunfels publishes Living images of plants, the first serious work of natural history with printed illustrations       
1531
 
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The Protestant princes of Germany form the defensive League of Schmalkalden      
1555
 
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The Peace of Augsburg achieves a compromise which for a while solves the religious tensions deriving from the Reformation