Engraving of angry Hussites in 1419 throwing a judge, the burgomaster, and 13 members of the town council of New Town of Prague out of a window. This act of defrenestration. led to the Hussite War and established a custom that was to be repeated in 1483 (with Prague's Old-Town portreeve and the bodies of seven murdered New-Town aldermen) and in 1618 (with two Catholic Royal regents and their secretary, who survived the 20-metre fall out of the windows of Prague Castle). This last act prompted the Thirty Years War.

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Location: Czech republic
Photo credit: © Lakeview Images / Alamy / Afripics
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