3 Jan 1521 Jahr - Called before the Diet of Worms and excommunicated

Beschreibung:

As a result, the pope excommunicated Luther in January 1521, in the bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. Luther was now ordered to appear before the Diet of Worms, a general assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms. Luther appeared as ordered before the Diet of Worms in 1521. Emperor Charles V commenced the Imperial Diet where Luther was presented with copies of his writings and asked if he stood by their contents. He refused to recant his writings and was thus declared a heretic, an outlaw