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| c. 1400 |
| | | The followers of Wycliffe, after his death, become known as Lollards or 'mutterers' | |
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| 1402 |
| | | John Huss, known for his radical approach to Christianity, is put in charge of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague | |
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| 1409 |
| | | The Council at Pisa elects a new pope, Alexander V, without persuading the other two to resign - bringing the total to an unprecedented three | |
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| 1414 |
| | | A council is called at Constance, to consider the radical views of John Huss and to deal with the present excess of popes | |
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| 1415 |
| | | John Huss, invited to Constance under a promise of safe conduct, is arrested, tried and burnt at the stake as a heretic | |
|  | Huss burnt
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| 1433 |
| | | The Compacts of Prague, agreed with the papacy in 1433, allow the Hussite laity to receive the sacrament in both kinds | |
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| 1438 |
| | | The French clergy pass a resolution at Bourges, limiting the power of the papacy within France, which is adopted by the king as a 'pragmatic sanction' | |
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| 1516 |
| | | Erasmus publishes an influential edition of the New Testament in its original Greek | |
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| 1517 |
| | | The local sale of indulgences by Johann Tetzel outrages a friar teaching in Wittenberg, Martin Luther | |
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| 1517 |
| | | Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg | |
|  | Woodcut portrait of Martin Luther
National Archives, Kew
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