Defenestrations of Prague

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title: Defenestrations of Prague
text: The Defenestrations of Prague were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated. Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate is believed to have first been used in English in reference to the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates threw two royal governors and their secretary out of a window of the Hradčany Castle and wrote an extensive apologia explaining their action. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, defe
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description: Incidents in Bohemian history (1419, 1483, 1618)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
date created: 2001-11-10T10:44:07Z
date modified: 2024-08-27T19:13:47Z
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