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1483 Born in Eisleben

1505 Monk in Erfurt

1512 Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg

1517 Nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church

1521 Outlawed and exiled to the Wartburg

1522 Return to Wittenberg

1525 Married Katharina von Bora

1534 Published the complete Bible in German

1546 (February 18) Died in Eisleben

Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben. His father was a copper miner.
Luther studied at the University of Erfurt and in 1505 decided to join a monastic order, becoming an Augustinian friar.
He was ordained in 1507, began teaching at the University of Wittenberg and in 1512 was made a doctor of Theology.
In 1510 he visited Rome on behalf of a number of Augustinian monasteries, and was appalled by the corruption he found there.

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