Short answers, pulled from the story.
Huldrych Zingli was born on the 1st of January 1484 in Wildhaus, a village nestled deep within the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland. He entered the world as the third child of eleven siblings to Ulrich and his wife, both farmers who lived in a region where Swiss patriotism was beginning to stir against foreign powers.
The Affair of the Sausages on the first fasting Sunday of March 1522 became the starting point of the Reformation in Switzerland when Huldrych Zwingli and approximately twelve other men deliberately broke church rules against eating meat during Lent. They gathered in the workshop of Christoph Froschauer to cut and distribute two smoked sausages, an act that led to public defiance and a sermon published by Zwingli on the 16th of April under the title Von Erkiesen und Freiheit der Speisen.
Huldrych Zwingli died at age forty-seven on the 11th of October 1531 near Kappel after serving as a chaplain within the Zurich army. The battle lasted less than one hour before ending in defeat for Zurich with approximately five hundred casualties among the forces including Zwingli himself.
Heinrich Bullinger was selected by the Zurich council on December 1531 as Huldrych Zwingli's successor. Bullinger immediately removed doubts about Zwingli's orthodoxy and defended him as both prophet and martyr while adopting most of Zwingli's doctrinal points.
Martin Luther believed the body of Christ was present in, with, and under the bread itself while Huldrych Zwingli maintained that sign and thing signified were separated by the distance between heaven and earth. This split led to fifteen Marburg Articles where participants agreed on fourteen points but failed to resolve the fifteenth article concerning Christ's presence in the Eucharist.