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Augsburg (DIET OF the most celebrated)

DIET OF, the most celebrated of the numerous diets, or parliaments, held at Augsburg, convened in 1530. Pope Clement VII. refusing to call a general council for the settlement of all religious disputes, the Emperor Charles V. summoned another diet at Augsburg, which met on June 20, 1530.

On the 25th the famous "Confession" was read, and on Aug. 3 an answer was made by the Roman Catholics, whereupon it was proclaimed that the Protestants must conform in all points to the Church of Rome. Charles V. soon after delivered his decision, in which he gave the Protestants till April 15, 1531, to reunite themselves to the Mother Church. The Emperor engaged to induce the Pope to summon a national or general council and later announced his intention to execute the edict of Worms, made some severe enactments against the Protestants, and reconstituted the Imperial Chamber.