European History for Dummies by Seán Lang

Author:Seán Lang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley

The defenestration of Pra-aaaaaaghh!!

The crisis in Bohemia started when the Protestants began building a couple of new churches. ‘You can’t do that,’ said the Bohemian government, known as the Deputies. ‘Oh yes we can,’ said the Protestants, ‘The Letter of Majesty says so.’ The Deputies gave a nasty little laugh and sent their troops round to arrest some of the Protestant leaders. This action got the Bohemian Protestants up in arms; the issue wasn’t just about their religion, this was a matter of defending their liberties.

In May 1618, a group of Bohemian Protestants marched to the royal palace in Prague, grabbed two of the most hard-line Catholic Deputies, and threw them out of the window. This action is known as the defenestration of Prague (‘defenestration’ is a posh word for throwing something out of a window, though it seems an odd thing to have a special word for).

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