!!!Prager Fenstersturz

Defenestration of Prague: 1) Attack on the Town Hall of the New Town 
of Prague on July 30, 1419, two Catholic councillors were thrown out 
of the Town Hall´s windows. This marked the beginning of the  
Hussite Wars.

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2) On May 23, 1618, Protestant nobles took 2 Statthalter (imperial 
governors) and the scribe present at a meeting at Hradcany Castle in 
Prague and threw them out of a window of the castle and into the 
castle moat, thus triggering off the  Thirty Years´ War.

!Literature
H. Sturmberger, Aufstand in Boehmen. Der Beginn des 
Dreissigjaehrigen Krieges, 1959.


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