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The Reformation
Also Known As Protestant Reformation
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The Reformation, or Protestant Reformation, was the religious and political upheaval that permanently split western Christianity, conventionally dated from 31 October 1517, when the German theologian Martin Luther is said to have posted his Ninety-five Theses against the sale of indulgences on the door of the Wittenberg castle church, to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years' War fought substantially over the religious division Luther began. It produced the Lutheran, Reformed and Anabaptist traditions that broke from the authority of the Pope in Rome, prompted the Catholic Church's own Counter-Reformation, and reshaped the political map of Central Europe through decades of religious warfare.
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Geographic ScopeCentered on the German-speaking lands, especially Electoral Saxony where Luther worked, spreading across much of Western and Central Europe, including Switzerland, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and the British Isles. 1 Disputed
End YearThe Peace of Westphalia in 1648, ending the Thirty Years' War, is the most commonly cited close; other historians end the period earlier, with the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. Cross-Tradition Connections
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the door of the castle church in Wittenberg in Electoral Saxony.
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The most commonly used starting date is 31 October 1517.
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