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Emperor Charles I bans German national synode

Emperor Charles I bans German national synode

Emperor Charles I bans German national synode

Events Before

  1. Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, ending the Kalmar Union

    The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark.

  2. Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway

    Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway

  3. Sermon of Constance: Zwingli defends 67 theses

    Sermon of Constance: Zwingli defends 67 theses

  4. Danish prince and later King Christian III arrives in Veere, Zeeland

    Danish prince and later King Christian III arrives in Veere, Zeeland

  5. Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested

    Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested

Events After

  1. Swiss Anabaptist movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize one anothe

    Swiss Anabaptist movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize one another in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union

  2. Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops defeat the French, killing or wounding 5,000 and capturing French

    Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops defeat the French, killing or wounding 5,000 and capturing French King Francis I

  3. Theologian and excommunicated priest Martin Luther (41) weds ex-nun Katharina von Bora (26), against the celibacy rule d

    Theologian and excommunicated priest Martin Luther (41) weds ex-nun Katharina von Bora (26), against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns

  4. Parliament of Paris begins persecuting Protestants

    Parliament of Paris begins persecuting Protestants

  5. Church reformer John Pistorius is captured in The Hague

    Church reformer John Pistorius is captured in The Hague

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