3 July 1530
Martin Luther wrote that the Augsburg Confession pleased him.

4 July 1519
The term "Lutheran" was first used. It was applied to those Protestants who strictly followed the writings of Martin Luther.

5 July 1530
A Roman Catholic committee began its Confutation of the Augsburg Confession. The Confutation was the Church's critical response to the Lutheran Confession.

6 July 1948
The organizational meeting of the Vereinigte Evangelische-Lutherische Kirche Deutschlands began. The goal of the VELKD was "to strengthen Lutheran consciousness through an organic union of all Lutherans."

8 July 1942
The Lutheran Women's Missionary League was organized. The League formed when the district women's groups organized.

9 July 1530
An attempt by Martin Bucer to reach a compromise between German and Swiss Protestants, the Tetrapolitan Confession, was rejected at the Diet of Augsburg.

10 July 1509
John Calvin was born. The French reformer's theology provides much of the basis of the Reformed Church tradition.

11 July 1533
Pope Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII of England. Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church in order to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon.

12 July 1536
Desiderius Erasmus died. A Humanist, Erasmus agreed with Luther's accusations against the Church but opposed Luther's changes in doctrine.

13 July 1521
Martin Luther's writings were burned in Antwerp, Belgium.