Martin Luther31 October 1517
Disagrees with selling remissions for sins.
Germany · Religion / Protestant Church. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Disagrees with selling remissions for sins.
Luther expresses doubts over the legitimacy of indulgences and the Plenitudo Potestatis of the Pope.
Luther nails a list of 95 theses attacking use of indulgences on the Church door at Wittemberg.
Luther protests against the corruption in Rome & Germany.
The 95 Theses which spread over most of Europe within 1 yr are provoked by the sale of Papal indulgences by the Archbishop of Mainz.
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