What is First defenestration of Prague?
[[File:Praha, Nove Mesto - Novomestska radnice III.jpg|thumb|The town hall where it happened]] The '''First defenestration of Prague''', on July 30, 1419, marked the beginning of the Hussite Wars. [[Jan Hus]] had been burnt four years earlier at the stake at the [[Council of Constance]]. On July 30, [[Hussites]] stormed the [[Prague]] [[town hall]], to free other Hussites who had been captured. At the event, ten people were [[Defenestration|thrown out of the window]]: the [[mayor]], two councillors, an aide of the [[judge]], five elders, and a [[Serfdom|serf]]. Falling out of the window did not kill them, but the crowd used cutting weapons to kill those that had fallen. One councillor died while he was being [[Torture|tortured]]. [[Jan Želivský]] had planned the uprising. In 1960, a [[statue]] was put in front of the town hall to commemorate him. [[Category:15th century in Europe]] [[Category:1419]] [[Category:History of the Czech Republic]]