Events leading up to the Diet at Augsburg

1517 - Luther posts 95 theses

1519 - Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian I dies

1520 - Charles elected emperor over Francis I

1521 (April) - Diet at Worms, Luther declared an outlaw

1521 (June) - Italian war between Francis and Charles breaks out

1523 (Nov.) - Clement VII becomes pope

1524-26 - Peasant’s War in Germany

1526 (Jan.) - Francis captured - Treaty of Madrid

1526 (May) - League of Cognac formed against Charles

1526 (July?) - First Diet of Spires granting territorial governance

1526 (Aug.) - Suleiman I defeats Louis II of Hungary at Mohacs

1527 (May) - Rome sacked - Pope Clement surrenders

1529 (March) - Second Diet of Spires - Edict of Worms enforced

1529 (April) - Reformers formally protest the decision at Spires

1529 (Aug.) - Francis defeated again, Treaty of Cambrai,

1529 (Sept.) - Ottoman forces arrive at Vienna

1529 (early Oct.) - Marburg Colloquy

1529 (mid Oct.) - Meeting of Reformers at Schwabach

1529 (mid Oct.) - Suleiman withdraws from Vienna

1530 (Jan.) - Charles calls for a Diet at Augsburg in April to settle religious dispute

1530 (Jan.) - Charles crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII

1530 (March) - Elector John commissions articles of division (Torgau articles)

1530 (May) - drafting of Augsburg Confession

1530 (June) - Diet of Augsburg convened

1530 (Aug.) - Roman Confutation presented and accepted

1530 (Aug.) - Apology of Augsburg Confession drawn up

1530 (Sept.) - Emperor demanded that the Reformers submit - gave them till April