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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.

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 Böhmen. Der Beginn des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, 1959.


 
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