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Papal Nuncio

Germany · Religion / Protestant Church. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1520–1521Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1520

Martin Luther1520

Religion / Protestant Church

Luthers books are publicly burned in Louvain by the Papal Nuncio Aleander

1521

Martin Luther1521

Worms · Religion / Protestant Church

The Papal nuncio at the Diet, Girolamo Aleandro, draws up and proposes the fierce denunciations of Luther embodied in the edict, which permitted anyone to kill Luther without legal consequence

Names involved

Martin Luther

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