Luther at the Diet of Worms
April 18, 1521
Summoned before Emperor Charles V, Luther refused to retract his writings. Here I stand, he reportedly said, I can do no other. Declared an outlaw, he was spirited away by Frederick the Wise to the Wartburg castle, where he began translating the New Testament into muscular German. His defiant stand became Protestant identity's founding myth, and Here I stand entered the Western lexicon as the expression of individual conscience.
In context
Also in 1521 (5 other events on record)
- Tenochtitlan Falls · North America · War
- Magellan Killed on Mactan · Southeast Asia · Exploration
- Belgrade Falls to Suleiman · Europe · War
- Portuguese Introduce Maize to China · East Asia · Technology
- Cortes Recruits Tlaxcalan Allies · North America · War
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Religion
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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