May 23, 1618 · Bohemia Theater
May 23, 1618
Protestant Bohemian nobles, outraged by the Catholic Habsburgs' curtailment of their religious freedoms, marched to Prague Castle and threw three Catholic royal governors out of a third-floor window. The Catholics survived — Catholics claimed angels bore them up; Protestants noted they landed in a pile of refuse — but the act ignited a revolt that would consume Europe for thirty years.
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