Huldrych Zwingli

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Timeline

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• Zwingli's birth - 1484
• Zwingli priest in Glarus - 1506
• Zwingli as chaplain - 1516
• Luther's 95 theses - 1517
• Charles V becomes Holy Roman emperor - 1519
• Zwingli priest in the cathedral of Zürich - 1519
• Pope bans Luther - 1521
• New Testament translated to German - 1522
• Adrian VI new pope - 1522
• Zwingli marries - 1522
• Zwingli publishes his first reformatory tract
• Reformation wins in Zürich - 1523
• Clement VII new pope - 1523
• Peasant rebellion in Germany - 1524
• Anabaptist movement in Switzerland - 1525
• Luther marries Katharina von Bora - 1525
• Zwingli publishes his tract "On the true & false Religion" - 1525
• Charles V; military conquest of Rome
• Reformation wins in Berne - 1528
• Zwingli and Luther meet in Marburg - 1529
• Confessio Augustana - 1530
• The league of Schmalkalden - 1531
• Zwingli falls in combat - 1531
• Calvin becomes a protestant - 1533
• Calvin in Geneva - 1536
• Confessio Helvetia prior - 1536

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Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (January 1, 1484 – October 10, 1531) was the leader of the Swiss Reformation, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent from Luther, who was doctor biblicus, Zwingli arrived at similar conclusions, by studying the Scriptures from the point of view of a humanist scholar.

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January 1 - 1484 - October 10 - 1531 - Swiss - Reformation - Swiss Reformed Churches - Luther - Humanist

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Zwingli was born in Wildhaus, St. Gall, Switzerland to a prominent family of the middle classes. He was the third of eight sons. His father Ulrich was the chief magistrate in town, and his uncle Bartolomeus the vicar.

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Wildhaus - St. Gall - Switzerland - Magistrate - Vicar

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Zwingli's Reformation was supported by the magistrate and population of Zürich, and led to significant changes in civil life, and state matters in Zürich. The reformation was spread from Zürich to five other cantons of Switzerland, while the remaining five sternly held on to the Roman Catholic view of the faith.

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Zürich - Canton - Roman Catholic

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Zwingli was killed at Kappel am Albis, in a battle against the Catholic cantons.

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