Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. On May 23, 1618, four Catholic nobles, representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor Matthias, arrived ...
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The Defenestration of Prague, which took place on May 23, 1618, was the decisive historical moment that unleashed the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between several Catholic and Protestant states and ...
The Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1618 when two royal officials were summarily thrown out of some rather high windows and landed, as luck would have it and history recorded it, on a pile of ...
1618-Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty ...
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The event that ignited the Thirty Years' War
On May 23, 1618, a group of Protestant nobles in Prague did something that would have been considered comical had it not kicked off one of the most devastating conflicts in European history. They ...
Polyxena of Lobkowicz Hiding the Emperor's Emissaries, V. Slavata and J. Martinic, after the Second Defenestration in 1618, 1892 oil on canvas Painting 87 × 146 cm Signed Realized Price Auction ...
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