The Hussite Wars were a series of conflicts in Bohemia between the followers of the reformer Jan Hus and the forces of the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire. Hus was burned at the stake at the Council of Constance, and his death caused anger in Bohemia. The war began after Prague's defenestration, when angry Hussites threw councillors from a window. Under commanders such as Jan Zizka and Prokop the Great, the Hussites used war wagons, firearms and mobile tactics to defeat several crusades led by the Emperor Sigismund. The movement divided into radical Taborites and moderate Utraquists, and the moderates won at Lipany. The settlement allowed Bohemia to practise communion in both kinds.
Before and after
- from 1415 to 1453Lancastrian War
- from 21 August 1415 to 20 December 1999Portuguese Empire
- from 1417 to 1420Construction of Registan
- 1417Construction of Tiananmen Square
- from 30 July 1419 to 30 May 1434Hussite Wars
- 1420Construction of Kremlin
- from c. 1420s to 1440sFounding of Ulugh Beg Observatory
- 1420The Forbidden City is completed
- from June 1422 to March 1430Siege of Thessalonica
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