AD 1501 : (EUROPE : LUTHER ATTENDS UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT, EXPERIENCES CONVERSION AFTER 'LIGHTING' STRIKES MORTAL FEAR INTO HIM) Martin Luther attended the University of Erfurt. While studying law at the University of Erfurt in Germany experiences a spiritual conversion.
(As the story goes, he was caught in a lightning storm and in his fear he cried out to God to save him, promising to become a monk... needless to say, his father wasn't thrilled. Looking at the meteoric incident which some believe to have occured around 1500 in the Pacific off of New Zealand... one wonders if the frightened Luther saw mere lightning or perhaps saw a meteor associated with this, something more unusual than just a severe thunderstorm - enough to make a lawyer change his life and become a monk. )