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Martin Luther

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Castle Church, Wittenberg

The Probably-Imaginary Nail That Started the Protestant Reformation on 31 October 1517

Martin Luther's *Ninety-Five Theses* are conventionally dated to 31 October 1517 — All Hallows' Eve. The substantial standard tradition has Luther nailing the substantial document to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. The single source for the nailing is Philip Melanchthon, writing in the 1540s, and modern scholarship substantially doubts that the nailing actually happened.

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The Cabinet June 26, 2026 · Wittenberg

The Ninety-Five Latin Propositions a German Friar Sent to His Archbishop on Halloween 1517 and That Maybe He Also Nailed to a Door

Martin Luther sent his *Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum* — the Ninety-Five Theses — to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz on 31 October 1517. The famous door-nailing detail is from a single later source. Within five years the document had substantially detonated Western Christendom.

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