{"slug": "anabaptism", "label": "Anabaptism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165580", "qid": "Q165580", "description": "Christian denominational family", "entries": 9, "years": 7, "span": [1525, 1693], "span_label": ["1525 CE", "1693 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Anabaptist", "Anabaptists"], "related": [{"slug": "munster", "label": "Munster", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "zurich", "label": "Zurich", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "amsterdam", "label": "Amsterdam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesus", "label": "Jesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "easter", "label": "Easter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "martin-luther", "label": "Martin Luther", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lutheranism", "label": "Lutheranism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christian-iii-of-denmark", "label": "Christian III of Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "schleswig-holstein", "label": "Schleswig-Holstein", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "westphalia", "label": "Westphalia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alsace", "label": "Alsace", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canton-of-zurich", "label": "Canton of Zurich", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1525, "year_label": "1525 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – The Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819017#January–March", "title": "1525", "revid": 1368819017, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1526, "year_label": "1526 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – In Switzerland, the Canton of Zurich enacts a law directed against the Anabaptist movement, specifically outlawing a second baptism of an adult who was previously baptized as an infant, and makes the crime punishable by drowning. The penalty is enforced for the first time on January 5, 1527, when Felix Manz is executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369353275#January–March", "title": "1526", "revid": 1369353275, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1527, "year_label": "1527 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366980186#January–March", "title": "1527", "revid": 1366980186, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1529, "year_label": "1529 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – The Flensburg Disputation is held, a debate attended by Stadtholder Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (later King Christian III of Denmark), between Lutherans (led by Hermann Fast) and the more radical Anabaptists (led by Melchior Hoffman). Johannes Bugenhagen, a close associate of Martin Luther, presides. The Disputation marks the rejection of radical ideas by the Danish Reformation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362793946#April–June", "title": "1529", "revid": 1362793946, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster, Westphalia and declare it The New Jerusalem, begin to exile dissenters, and forcibly baptize all others.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#January–March", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Anabaptist Jan Matthys is killed by the Landsknechte, who laid siege to Münster on the day he predicted as the Second Coming of Christ. His follower John of Leiden takes control of the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#April–June", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1535, "year_label": "1535 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – In Amsterdam, a small troop of Anabaptists, led by the minister Jacob van Geel, attacks the city hall, in an attempted coup to seize the city. In the counter-attack by the city's militia, the burgemeester, Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels. In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five women walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561145#April–June", "title": "1535", "revid": 1369561145, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1535, "year_label": "1535 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – Münster Rebellion: The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561145#April–June", "title": "1535", "revid": 1369561145, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1693, "year_label": "1693 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "A religious schism takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite Amish sect.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343170745#Date_unknown", "title": "1693", "revid": 1343170745, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}