Prague(praha)
near modern-day Dürnkrut in Austria) by the Austrian Habsburgs.
Hussite revolution
The late 14th and early 15th centuries witnessed the Church-reform movement led by Jan
Hus. Hus' eventual conviction for heresy and his death at the stake in 1415 sparked a
nationalist rebellion in Bohemia led by the Hussite preacher Jan Zelivsk. In 1419 several
Catholic councillors were flung from the windows of Prague's New Town Hall by Zelivsk's
followers, thus introducing the word 'defenestration' (the act of throwing someone or
something out of a window) to the political lexicon.
After the death in 1419 of Holy Roman emperor and king of Bohemia Wenceslas IV, Prague
was ruled by various Hussite committees. In 1420 combined Hussite forces led by military
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commander Jan Zizka successfully defended Prague against the first anti-Hussite crusade,
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