The Defenestration of Prague was an event central to the initiation of the Thirty Years War in 1618. Effectively the Bohemian aristocracy was in revolt and at Hradcany on [23 May]? 1618, a number of them took the Imperial governors and threw them out of the castle windows; neither of them was injured in the assault. |
The Defenestration of Prague was an event central to the initiation of the Thirty Years War in 1618. Effectively the Bohemian aristocracy was in revolt, following the election of [Ferdinand, Duke of Styria]?, a catholic zealot, to rule the empire. At Hradcany castle on [23 May]? 1618, a number of them took the Imperial governors and threw them out of the castle windows; neither of them was injured in the assault. |