Radical Reformation Events
he table below sets out the major events of the Radical Reformation, from the first radicals at Wittenberg to the settled Mennonite, Hutterite, and Amish communities of the following century. For the story behind these dates, see Radical Reformation History; for the men, Movement Leaders; and for the convictions and errors of the movement, Anabaptists.
Table RR2
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 25, 1521 | Andreas Karlstadt gives communion in both kinds without vestments at Wittenberg |
| December 1521 | The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg claiming direct revelations |
| March 1522 | Luther returns from the Wartburg and restores order by preaching |
| October 1523 | Second Zurich Disputation; Zwingli’s radical disciples break with him over the council’s authority |
| 1524 | Karlstadt declines to baptize infants; Grebel’s circle writes to Müntzer |
| January 17, 1525 | Zurich disputation on infant baptism |
| January 21, 1525 | First believer’s baptisms in Felix Manz’s house in Zurich |
| May 15, 1525 | Peasants defeated at Frankenhausen; Thomas Müntzer executed on May 27 |
| Late May 1525 | Bolt Eberli burned at Schwyz, the first Anabaptist martyr |
| March 7, 1526 | Zurich makes rebaptism punishable by drowning |
| 1526 | Conrad Grebel dies of the plague |
| January 5, 1527 | Felix Manz drowned in the Limmat, the first Anabaptist executed by Protestants |
| February 24, 1527 | Schleitheim Confession adopted by the Swiss Brethren |
| May 20, 1527 | Michael Sattler burned at Rottenburg |
| August 1527 | “Martyrs’ Synod” at Augsburg |
| 1528 | Communal Anabaptism begins in Moravia |
| March 10, 1528 | Balthasar Hubmaier burned at Vienna |
| April 23, 1529 | Diet of Speyer decrees death for all rebaptizers and rebaptized |
| September 6, 1529 | George Blaurock burned in the Tyrol |
| 1530 | Melchior Hoffman baptizes some three hundred at Emden |
| 1533 | Hoffman imprisoned at Strasbourg; Jacob Hutter takes charge in Moravia |
| February 23, 1534 | Anabaptists win the council election at Münster |
| June 24, 1535 | Münster falls to the besieging army |
| January 1536 | Menno Simons renounces Rome |
| January 22, 1536 | Jan van Leiden executed at Münster |
| February 1536 | Jacob Hutter burned at Innsbruck |
| 1539–1540 | Menno Simons publishes The Foundation of Christian Doctrine |
| 1544 | Calvin answers the Schleitheim articles |
| October 27, 1553 | Michael Servetus burned at Geneva |
| 1556 | Deaths of Pilgram Marpeck at Augsburg and David Joris at Basel |
| 1561 | Death of Menno Simons in Holstein |
| 1569 | Dirk Willems saves his pursuer from the ice and is burned |
| 1609 | John Smyth baptizes himself and his congregation in Amsterdam |
| 1632 | Dordrecht Confession of the Dutch Mennonites |
| 1660 | Thieleman van Braght publishes the Martyrs Mirror |
| 1693 | Jakob Ammann leads the Amish separation |
