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What did Martin Luther do on 31 October 1517 that triggered the Reformation?
Luther's 95 Theses — a list of objections to the Catholic Church's practice of selling indulgences — were (by tradition) posted on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. He did later translate the New Testament into German (published 1522) and marry the former nun Katharina von Bora (1525), but those events are not the symbolic starting point of the Reformation.
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The Reformation The Reformation was a 16th-century religious movement that split Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant branches. It began with Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church in 1517 and produced a reorganisation of European religion, politics, and culture that has lasted to the present.
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