Timeline Tuesday 25 June 1535

Events on Tuesday 25 June 1535 1

• 1535 Siege of Munster ends Anabaptist kingdom in Munster is crushed Forces of the Bishop of Munster stormed the city, ending sixteen months of Anabaptist rule under the self-proclaimed King John of Leiden. The radical Anabaptist kingdom, which had practiced communal property and polygamy, was violently suppressed. Surviving leaders were later tortured and executed, and the episode became a defining trauma of the Radical Reformation.