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*On July 30, 1419, followers of John Huss inarched through the streets of Prague. Stones were thrown at the Hussites from the windows of the town hall. The incensed populace stormed into the hall, threw the burgomaster and several councilors from the windows into the streets where they were immediately killed by the crowd. On May 23, 1618, two royal councilors, Czech Catholics, and the secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the council room of the Hradcany into the moat 50 feet below. Not one of the three was killed by the fall. This defenestration was the beginning of the Thirty Years' War.