Some of its origins lay with tensions over the religious settlement offered in the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which allowed for Lutheran and Catholic territories within the Holy Roman Empire.

1450: Johannes Gutenberg invents the movable type printing process, providing the technology that later enables Martin Luther to spread his ideas through a mass medium. Oct. 31, 1517: Martin Luther… ...

COMMENTARY: The Reformation was as much a political revolt as it was ever a theological movement. A Service of EWTN News, Inc. ... Bargaining finally culminated in the Peace of Augsburg.

It has been 500 years since what is seen as the “start” of the Reformation, when the German monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, challenging practices in the ...

Telemann wrote his so-called “Reformation” Oratorio, Holder Friede, heil’ger Glaube, in 1755 to mark 200 years since the Peace of Augsburg, a complex truce between Lutherans and Catholics.