2) Thirty Years War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...were hurled from a window by Protestant members of the Bohemian diet-the so-called Defenestration of Prague (May, 1618). Ferdinand was declared deposed and the Bohemian...

3) Wenceslaus, Holy Roman emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...appointed by the king were thrown from the windows of the town hall (the first Defenestration of Prague, July 30, 1419) and were killed. Wenceslaus died shortly afterward...

4) Bohemia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...councilors out of the windows of Hradcin Castle on May 23, 1618. 6The so-called Defenestration of Prague precipitated the Thirty Years War, which came to involve...