Bohemia: Military History and Notable Events

1419 - 1434 - Hussite Wars (All Facts)

• Series of conflicts between the namesake followers of Jan Hus and the Czech and the Roman Catholic Church that began with the Defenestration of Prague

  • Series of conflicts in which the namesake followers of Jan Hus protested against the stringent Catholic policies of King Wenceslas IV of Bohemia

• Two years into this series of conflicts, at a meeting at Caslav, the representatives of Bohemia and Moravia renounced Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund as their king and founded their own government

• Series of conflicts in which the namesake followers of Jan Hus, led by Jan Zizka, won a series of victories in Bohemia against German armies sent to oppose them

• Series of conflicts which ended with the Battle of Lipany

1419 - Defenestration of Prague (All Facts)

• Incident which began with a mass demonstration in the namesake capital city of Bohemia, in which thousands of Hussites marched on the New Town Hall

• After demands for the release of several of their preachers were ignored, the crowd forced its way into the building and threw the Catholic councilors and others whom the Hussites threw out of the windows into the square

• Incident in which a meeting of townspeople was held and which appointed four captains to administer the city

• Incident which began with a protest against the recent Catholic policies of King Wenceslas IV

1434 - Battle of Lipany (All Facts)

• Battle in which the Utraquists and Catholics of Sigismund and the Holy Roman Empire, both of which comprised the Bohemian League, defeated the Taborites

• Battle which thus ended the Hussite Wars

1431 - 1449 - Council of Basel / Florence (All Facts)

• Council in which the Hussites were condemned as heretics

• Council which opened negotiations between the Catholic Church and Hussites, which effectively split the Hussites into two groups: the moderate Utraquists and radical Taborites

1468 - 1478 - Bohemian-Hungarian War (All Facts)