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| 1420 |
| | | The Hussites build a new fortified town at Tabor as their fortress headquarters | |
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| c. 1422 |
| | | Jan Zizka wins a series of victories against papal armies, using the mobile barricade which becomes known as his 'war wagon fortress' | |
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| 1433 |
| | | The Compacts of Prague, agreed with the papacy in 1433, allow the Hussite laity to receive the sacrament in both kinds | |
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| 1596 |
| | | Tycho Brahe enters the service of the emperor Rudolf II in Prague, where he invites Johannes Kepler to join him | |
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| 1609 |
| | | Johannes Kepler, in Prague, puts forward the radical proposition that the planets move in elliptical rather than circular orbits | |
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| 1618 |
| | | Bohemian nobles throw the Habsburg regents out of a window in the castle in Prague, thus triggering the Thirty Years' War | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1620 |
| | | The battle of the White Mountain, to the west of Prague, ends the brief reign of Frederick V in Bohemia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian armies join the war against Austria, marching through upper Austria into Bohemia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian forces enter Prague, one of the most important cities in the Austrian empire | |
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