Defenestration of Prague
1618 · Event
Protestant nobles throw two Catholic regents out of a Hradčany window; conventional start of the Thirty Years' War.
On these timelines: Germany, Thirty Years' War, Master, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, The Habsburg Dynasty
More from Germany
- German unification (1871)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
Around 1618
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)