Defenestration of Prague

Defenestration of Prague is a term that is used for three different events:

• The First defenestration of Prague of 1419
• The Second defenestration of Prague of 1618
• The murder of Jan Masaryk, of 1948, sometimes called the Third defenestration of Prague

Defenestration Of Prague Media

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  1872 illustration depicting the 1483 defenestrations, from Česko-Moravská Kronika

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  Prague Castle defenestration site

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  1662 woodcut of the 1618 event, by engraver Matthäus Merian the Elder for chronicler Johann Philipp Abelin's Theatrvm Evropaevm

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  Vilem Slavata of Chlum, 1618 enamel on copper, by follower of Dominicus Custos

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  The Novoměstská radnice (lit. 'New Town Hall'), site of the 1419 defenestrations

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  Illustrated by Czech history painter Adolf Liebscher c. 1900

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  1844 illustration by Czech/Austrian painter Karel Svoboda

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  Pražská defenestrace roku 1618 by Czech painter Václav Brožík, 1890

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  Polyxena of Lobkowitz safeguarding royal officials Slavata and Martinic, thrown out of windows of the royal castle in Prague in 1618, by Brožík, c. 1880-1891