Charles IV and the Habsburgs · event 7 of 14

23 May 1618

The Second Defenestration. Protestant nobles throw two imperial governors and their secretary from a window of Prague Castle. All three survive — Catholics credit angels, Protestants a dung heap. The Thirty Years’ War begins.

The Charles IV and the Habsburgs era

  1. 1344
  2. 1348
  3. 9 July 1357
  4. 6 July 1415
  5. 30 July 1419
  6. 1583
  7. 23 May 1618
  8. 8 November 1620
  9. 1648
  10. 1784
  11. 29 October 1787
  12. 1848
  13. 18 November 1883
  14. 1893

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