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Protestants- Those who sided with Luther and protested against the church.
Those protestants who also followed Luther's teachings were known as Lutherans.
John Calvin- A more influential reformer than Tyndale.
He taught that God knew who would be saved before they were born.
Calvin's followers believed that people were generally sinful, so they banned many forms of entertainment because they thought that those activities distracted people from religion.
King Henry VIII- The major figure of the reformation.
He had no sons and his wife couldn't have anymore children he asked the pope to officially end his marriage.
He refused.
Furious the king decided that he didn't want to obey the pope anymore.
In 1534 he declared himself head of a new church called Anglican church.
The difference: you could get divorced there.