Joining the League of Torgau in 1526, he acted in unison with the Protestants, and was among the princes who banded and plotted together to overthrow Charles V after the issue of the Augsburg Interim in May 1548.

When Charles tried to find a compromise solution with the Augsburg Interim, Bucer and Bullinger urged Calvin to respond.

Along with Julius von Pflug, bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, and Michael Helding, titular bishop of Sidon, he prepared the Augsburg Interim of 1548, a proposed settlement under which Protestants would accept all Catholic authority, being permitted to retain the Protestant teaching on justification but otherwise compelled to accept Catholic doctrine and practice.

Because it had not accepted the Augsburg Interim ( 1548 ), the city, by the emperor's commands, was besieged ( 1550 – 1551 ) by Maurice, Elector of Saxony, but it retained its independence.

Here he took part in founding Jena University ( 1548 ); opposed the " Augsburg Interim " ( 1548 ); superintended the publication of the Jena edition of Luther's works ; and debated on the freedom of the will, original sin, and, more noticeably, on the Christian value of good works, in regard to which he held that they were not only useless, but prejudicial.

** The Peace of Passau revokes the Augsburg Interim of 1548 and promises religious freedom to the Protestant princes.

It is true, Melanchthon rejected the Augsburg Interim, which the emperor tried to force upon the defeated Protestants ; but in the negotiations concerning the so-called Leipzig Interim he made concessions which many feel can in no way be justified, even if one considers his difficult position, opposed as he was to the elector and the emperor.

His irenical character often led him to adapt himself to the views of others, as may be seen from his correspondence with Erasmus and from his public attitude from the Diet of Augsburg to the Interim.

In the negotiations of the Augsburg Interim, he took the part of Melanchthon in first opposing it and then making concessions.

At the Augsburg Interim in 1548 he created an interim solution giving certain allowances to Protestants until the Council of Trent would restore unity.

In 1548, Bucer was persuaded, under duress, to sign the Augsburg Interim, which imposed certain forms of Catholic worship.

The Diet produced an imperial decree, the provisional Augsburg Interim, which imposed Catholic rites and ceremonies throughout the Empire, with a few concessions to the Reformation.

Rogers returned to England in 1548, where he published a translation of Philipp Melanchthon's Considerations of the Augsburg Interim.

Melanchthon and those that agreed with him, called Philippists were checked by the Gnesio-Lutherans in the Second Antinomian Controversy during the Augsburg Interim.

* Augsburg Interim

In 1548 the victorious Charles forced the Schmalkaldic League to agree to the terms set forth in the Augsburg Interim.

Soon, Flacius was prominent in the theological discussions of the time, opposing strenuously the Augsburg Interim, and the compromise of Melanchthon known as the Leipzig Interim.

Charles V had made a provisional ruling on the religious question, the Augsburg Interim of 1548 ; this offered a temporary ruling on the legitimacy of two religious creeds in the empire, and codified by law in 30 June 1548 upon the insistence of Charles V, who wanted to work out religious differences under the auspices of a general council of the Catholic Church.

In 1548 Charles declared an interreligio imperialis ( also known as the Augsburg Interim ) through which he sought to find some common ground.

The Augsburg Interim was now introduced, sanctioning Roman Catholic practises and usages.

Philip himself wrote from prison to forward the acceptance of the Augsburg Interim, especially as his liberty depended upon it.

However on 15 May 1548 Charles V, feeling at the height of his power, dictated the Augsburg Interim to prepare the reintegration of the Protestants into the Catholic Church.

Having submitted under compulsion to the Interim issued from Augsburg in May 1548, Ulrich died on the 6th of November 1550 at Tübingen, where he was buried.

Charles V overruled their efforts at the Diet of Augsburg, which sat from September 1547 to May 1548.

Bucer arrived in Augsburg on 30 March 1548 of his own volition.

As part of the Burgundian Circle, the Spanish Netherlands were subject of a special defence guarantee by the Empire, according to the agreement of Augsburg of 1548 between the Empire and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( who was also King of Spain ).

In 1548, two years after the death of Martin Luther, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V tried to unite Catholics and Protestants in his realm with a law called the Augsburg Interim.

He was also able to obtain for his native city some modification of the Interim issued from Augsburg in May 1548.

In recognition of the great services rendered by Josel to the emperor on this occasion and previously, Charles V renewed at Augsburg in 1548 the safe-conduct for Josel and his family, which thereby received the right of free passage throughout the German empire and free residence wherever Jews were allowed to live.

Maurice, insulted after these incidents by his compatriots and called a " Judas ", was also disappointed by the emperor's attitude ( because now Charles V tried to reintroduce Catholicism into the Empire's Protestant territories and the continued imprisonment of his father-in-law, Landgrave Philip of Hesse, whose freedom Charles V had guaranteed ), he hid his feelings from him up to the Diet of Augsburg on 25 February 1548, where the ceremony of the formal inauguration of Maurice as Elector of Saxony took place.

The Augsburg Interim (" Declaration of His Roman Imperial Majesty on the Observance of Religion Within the Holy Empire Until the Decision of the General Council ") is the general term given to an imperial decree ordered on May 15, 1548, at the 1548 Diet of Augsburg, after Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, had defeated the forces of the Schmalkaldic League in the Schmalkaldic War of 1546 / 47.

" The Lutheran Augsburg Confession, speaking of changes made by Roman Catholic Pontiffs, states: " They refer to the Sabbath-day as having been changed into the Lord's Day, contrary to the Decalog, as it seems.

Although the Peace of Augsburg created a temporary end to hostilities, it did not resolve the underlying religious conflict, which was made yet more complex by the spread of Calvinism throughout Germany in the years that followed.

* The League of Augsburg is founded in response to claims made by Louis XIV of France on the Electorate of the Palatinate in western Germany.

Richeza planned to made Brauweiler as the Ezzonen family crypt, so in 1051 she placed there the remains of her sister Adelaide, Abbess of Nivelles, and in 1054 transferred the remains of her father from Augsburg to be buried next to her sister.

He was sent before April, 910, for his further training to Adalbero, Bishop of Augsburg, who made him a chamberlain.

" The English had found the Antwerp money market short of funds since earlier in the year, and now made use of Cologne and Augsburg as well, but as events unfolded in the next year, and the personal position of some leading lenders became precarious, the English found to their surprise that repayments were no longer pressed for, probably as the lenders were happy to keep their money abroad on loan to a secure borrower.

Political stalemates among the government members of different denominations within a number of the republican Free Imperial Cities, such as, Augsburg, Frankfurt upon Main, and Regensburg, made their territories de facto bidenominational, but usually the two denominations did not share equal legal status.

His involvement in ecumenical and civic circles made Augsburg a more visible part of church and city life.

After World War II, Augsburg leaders made vigorous efforts to expand and improve academic offerings.

Many players that made the Marines squad had previously played for big college teams such as the University of Minnesota, Hamline University, Augsburg College, Macalester College, and Carleton College.

After travelling through northern Europe, he settled down at Wittenberg, where he made the acquaintance of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and signed the Augsburg confession.

A case is sometimes also made to regard Lutheranism in a similar way, considering the catholic character of its foundational documents ( the Augsburg Confession and other documents contained in the Book of Concord ) and its existence prior to the Anglican, Anabaptist, and Reformed churches, from which nearly all other Protestant denominations derive.

The exterior of a wheellock mechanism from a " puffer " or pistol made in Augsburg in about 1580.

The interior of a wheellock mechanism from a " puffer " or pistol made in Augsburg in about 1580. The mechanism is shown at rest, with the long arm of the mainspring resting on the bottom of the wheel bracket.

Three-barrel turnover pistol from Augsburg made during the 18th century.

The war broke out in Swabia when a united army of several Lutheran Imperial cities occupied the Catholic town of Füssen, a possession of the Augsburg prince-bishops, and made the Imperial forces move toward the fortress of Ingolstadt in the Bavarian duchy.

The differences of the German translation from the original Latin text of The Apology of the Augsburg Confession were made apparent by F. Bente's insertion of the variant readings of his English translation of the German text in square brackets into the main body of his translation of the original Latin text.

Slalom canoeing made its Olympic debut in 1972 in Augsburg, W. Germany.

After the Reformation, the Bishops of Augsburg moved to the Catholic city of Dillingen and made it one of the centers of the Counter-Reformation.

As the region's proximity to Brenner Pass made it a frequent trade route, the Fugger of Augsburg opened a branch to sort the products of the nearby silver mines in Ridnaun Valley and Pfleres Valley.

These highlight the pieces of tournament made for Charles V and Philip II by leading armorers of Milan and Augsburg.

In Augsburg, he made a considerable stay, began his ( German Chronicle, 1774 – 1778 ) and eked out a subsistence by reciting from the latest works of prominent poets.