Wednesday, April 19, 2006
This Day in Late Renaissance History
On this day in 1529, those Christians who no longer followed the Catholic dogma were first called Protestants. In this year, the Diet of Speyer met to decide the Turkish question and what to do with the new form of Christians (not all were Lutherans). Charles V vowed that he would wipe out the Lutheran heresy, but several princes and even more cities made a formal written appeal of such a decision and as a result of the appeal began to call themselves Protestants.
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