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1483 Born in Eisleben, Nov. 10
1492–98 Attends school at Mansfeld, Magdeburg, and Eisenach
1501–5 Attends University of Erfurt; receives BA (1502), MA (1505)
1505 Makes vow during thunderstorm, July 2; enters Augustinian monastery
1507 Ordained
1509 Receives BA in Bible; begins lecturing at Erfurt on the arts
1510 Makes pilgrimage to Rome
1511 Transfers to Augustinian monastery at Wittenberg
1512 Receives doctorate in theology; appointed to faculty of theology at Wittenberg
1513–17 Lectures on Psalms, Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews
1517 Posts Ninety-Five Theses on church door, Oct. 31
1518 Heidelberg Disputation, April 25
1518 Examined by Cardinal Thomas Cajetan at Augsburg
1518–19 Possible date of conversion
1519 Debates Johann Eck at Leipzig, July 4–14
Writes To the Christian Nobility of the 1520 GermanNation,OntheBabylonianCaptivity of the Church, and On theFreedom of a Christian
1520 Receives Exsurge Domine, papal bull excommunicating him
1521 Appears before Diet of Worms, April 17–18
1521 Placed under imperial ban, condemned as a heretic and an outlaw, May
1521–22 In exile at Wartburg Castle; translates New Testament into German
1522 Returns to Wittenberg
1524 Publishes first hymnal
1525 German Peasants’ War
1525 Marries Katharina von Bora, June 13 1525 Writes On the Bondage of the Will
1527 Plague strikes Wittenberg; Luther’s house becomes a hospital
1527 Writes “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
1529 Attends Marburg Colloquy, Oct. 1–4
1529 Writes Small Catechism
1530 Diet of Augsburg; Luther is unable to attend
1530 Augsburg Confession written by Philip Melanchthon
1534 Publishes complete German Bible
1537 Writes Smalcald Articles
Writes On the Jews and Their Lies 1543
1545 Writes Against the Papacy at Rome,Founded by the Devil
1546 Preaches last sermon at Wittenberg, Jan.
1546 Dies in Eisleben, Feb. 18; buried at Wittenberg