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🕊️ Birth of Hildegard of Bingen
the birth of Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church, abbess, monastic leader, mystic, prophetess, medical, German composer and writer, polymath.⟶

Middle AgesChristianityCatholicismMysticismMusicWritingMonasticismReligious Figures

🙏 🙏 Luther's Monastic Entry: Start of Reformation
Martin Luther enters St. Augustine's Monastery at Erfurt, Germany, on 17 July and begins his journey to instigating the Reformation.⟶

ChristianityMonasticismCatholicismReligious HistoryReligious Reform

📜 Martin Luther Posts Ninety-Five Theses
The Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his Ninety-five Theses in Saxony.⟶

ChristianitySaxonyReligious ReformCatholicismPrinting PressReligious DoctrineHeresy

✝️ Catholic League Formed by Maximilian of Bavaria
Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.⟶

Religious ConflictCatholicismHoly Roman EmpireThirty Years' WarCounter-ReformationChristianityLeagueMaximilian I

⛪ Bismarck's Kulturkampf Against the Catholic Church
1871–1878: In Germany, Otto von Bismarck attacks the privileges of the Catholic Church in the Kulturkampf ("Culture War").⟶

ReligionCatholicismOtto von BismarckReligious ConflictSecularism

🇩🇪 Kaiser Wilhelm II Dismisses Bismarck and Shifts to Weltpolitik
Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Germany's longtime chancellor Otto von Bismarck, thereafter embarking on the foreign policy of Weltpolitik, as opposed to Bismarck's Realpolitik.⟶

ImperialismGerman EmpireWeltpolitikRealpolitikOtto von BismarckForeign PolicyDiplomacyEuropean History
