{"slug": "wittenberg", "label": "Wittenberg", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenberg", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6837", "qid": "Q6837", "description": "town in Germany", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1490, 1611], "span_label": ["1490 CE", "1611 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "martin-luther", "label": "Martin Luther", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cistercians", "label": "Cistercians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leipzig", "label": "Leipzig", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-testament", "label": "New Testament", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-testament", "label": "Old Testament", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tallinn", "label": "Tallinn", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lutheran", "label": "Lutheran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "frisians", "label": "Frisians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "galileo-galilei", "label": "Galileo Galilei", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1490, "year_label": "1490 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, is begun.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365746432#Date_unknown", "title": "1490", "revid": 1365746432, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1521, "year_label": "1521 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and spreading the idea of rejecting infant baptism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369246997#October–December", "title": "1521", "revid": 1369246997, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1522, "year_label": "1522 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – Protestant reformer Martin Luther returns to Wittenberg in Germany after getting cleared to return home by his protector, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372799978#January–March", "title": "1522", "revid": 1372799978, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1523, "year_label": "1523 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "c. July – Martin Luther's translation of the Pentateuch into German (Das allte Testament Deutsch) is published by Melchior Lotter Jr. in Wittenberg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561167#July–September", "title": "1523", "revid": 1369561167, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1523, "year_label": "1523 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Under a plan organized by Sister Katharina von Bora and Protestant reformer Martin Luther, fish merchant Leonhard Köppe helps carry out the rescue of Von Bora and other Cistercian Catholic nuns from the Nimbschen Abbey in Germany near Grimma and Leipzig. On the day before Easter, Köppe arrives at the convent under the pretext of bringing delivering herring and other foods to the Abbey, then uses empty barrels to smuggle the nuns to Wittenberg. Von Bora will later become Luther's wife.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561167#April–June", "title": "1523", "revid": 1369561167, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – As the Michaelmas fair opens in Wittenberg, Martin Luther's translation of the complete Christian Bible into German is offered for sale for the first time. The work, printed on 1,824 pages in two volumes by Hans Lufft adds the Old Testament including the deuterocanonical books to Luther's 1522 translation of the New Testament, and includes woodcut illustrations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#October–December", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1535, "year_label": "1535 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The earliest (partially) preserved printed book in Estonian, a Catechism with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, for use in Tallinn.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561145#Date_unknown", "title": "1535", "revid": 1369561145, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1583, "year_label": "1583 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – The first installment of the translation by Jurij Dalmatin of the Bible into the Slovene language, Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta (The Bible, featuring the complete Old and New Testaments), is published in Wittenberg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363312090#April–June", "title": "1583", "revid": 1363312090, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1611, "year_label": "1611 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – Sunspots are observed by telescope, by Frisian astronomers Johannes Fabricius and David Fabricius. Johannes publishes the results of these observations, in De Maculis in Sole observatis in Wittenberg, later this year. Such early discoveries are overlooked, however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later, by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1277342005#January–March", "title": "1611", "revid": 1277342005, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}