First defenestration of Prague
The first defenestration of Prague occurred at the beginning of the wars Hussite S. The reformer of the Catholic church, Jan Hus, declared heretic by the Council of Constancy, had died on roughing-hew it the July 6th 1415, but it still had many partisans, carried out by the preacher Jan Želivský.The origin of the Défenestration is, the July 30th 1419, a stone which would have been launched since the town hall of the new town of Prague, against a procession carried out by Jan Želivský. At once its partisans take by storm the building. They throw by the window seven catholic aldermen, on lances pointed to the top, and crowd completes them. Crowd is caught some then with the honest churches and monasteries with the Catholic church: the incident started a revolt of great width.
The August 16th 1419, the king Venceslas I {{er}} known as the Drunkard already struck apoplexy dies. It leaves the throne to his brother Sigismond I {{er}}, king of Hungary-Croatia since 1387, and emperor of Germany since 1411, which undertakes MATER the rebellion. The Croisades against Hussites will last until in 1436.
Second defenestration of Prague
The May 23rd 1618, in reaction to the closing of two Protestant temples with Broumov and Hrob, a delegation of Protestants of Bohemia, carried out by the count of Thurn, goes to the residence of the king Matthias to Prague, the Château of Prague or Hradshin.Successor of its brother Rodolphe II of Habsbourg, which had guaranteed in 1609 by a royal edict (Majestätsbrief) the right to the Protestants to practice their religion, Matthias, without direct heir, chose his cousin Ferdinand, archduke of Styrie, to take again the throne.
However, Ferdinand is an enthusiastic catholic and militates for the Counter-Reformation.
The meeting envenime between the representatives of the king and the Protestant delegation. Two governors habsbourgeois, Wilhelm Slavata and Jaroslav Martinic, like one their servants named Fabricius, are thrown by a window of the palate. The latter draw some without much evil, falling on a heap from Fumier.
Although alleviating, this defenestration needle and thread will lead Europe towards the Guerre Thirty Year old.
" Troisième" defenestration of Prague
Though him this title is not generally given, a “third defenestration” occurred in Prague the March 10th 1948, one month after the formation of a government dominated by the Communists, when one found Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and only minister not to be socialo-Communist, dead with the foot of the window of the bathroom of its ministry.At the beginning of the year the 2004 police force concluded that it had been indeed assassinated and that it “had not committed suicide” as the official report of the time had affirmed it.
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