AP European History
Gabriel/Hancock
ANNOTATED TIMELINE OF THE REFORMATION
Objective:
To identify the key events, people, places and dates in the Protestant Reformation of the 16 th century and
explain what makes them critical to the movement.
Directions:
With 2 partners you will take the information below and create an annotated timeline. This means you
must group event, people and ideas with key dates and then as shown explain what makes them key to
the chronology of the Reformation.
Each student must have their own timeline even though you’re working with partners. Set up your timeline on a separate
sheet of paper to match this format:
DATE
PEOPLE, IDEA, PLACE etc.
1381
John Wyclif and Lollards
EXPLAIN WHY THESE ARE KEY IN THE REFORMATION
Wyclif believed that the Church and the Pope had no control over salvation. That salvation
came through scripture alone. This idea was the central argument in Martin Luther’s
protest. His followers known as Lollards published several books including an English
translation of the Bible all of which influenced religious reformers around Europe.
Here is the list that must make up your timeline – be aware that not all the people, events etc. have a specific date
attached to them. You should group people and events/ideas together and then look for the year that is most critical to
that grouping.
DATES
1381
1456
1515
1517
1521
1525
1526
1534
1536
1542
1549
1555
1559
1563
1545-1563
FEEL FREE TO ADD ANY DATES YOU FEEL
ARE MISSING
PEOPLE
John Wyclif
Erasmus
Johan Tetzel
Pope Leo X
Frederick of Saxony
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Ulrich Zwingli
Charles V
Henry VIII
Mary Tudor
Elizabeth I
Michael Servetus
Ignatius Loyola
Lollards
Anabaptists
Anglicans
Holy Orders
Jesuits
Peasants/Laboring Poor
Middle Classes
Monarchs & Ruling Princes
Mohacs
FEEL FREE TO ADD ANY PEOPLE YOU FEEL
ARE MISSING
Essential Questions:
 Identify and explain who benefited the most from the Reformation.
 Identify and explain who benefited the least from the Reformation.
 Assess the extent to which the Reformation was a religious movement.
EVENTS/IDEAS
Conciliar Movement
Printing Press
Guttenberg Bible
Indulgences
95 Theses
St. Peter’s Basilica
Pluralism
Absenteeism
Simony
Pragmatic Sanction
Concordat of Bologna
The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Act of Supremacy
Elizabethan Settlement
Diet of Worms
‘solo scriptura’
Transubstantiation
Consubstantiation
Predestination
The Holy Office
Index of Banned Books
The Council of Trent
Peace of Augsburg
‘cuius region, eius regio’
FEEL FREE TO ADD ANY EVENTS/IDEAS
YOU FEEL ARE MISSING