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What saved the three Catholic officials who were thrown from a Prague Castle window on 23 May 1618?
All three survived a 21-metre fall. The Catholic narrative was a divine miracle; the Protestant counter-narrative was that they landed in a wet dung heap beside the stable wall. The Thirty Years War followed and killed about 8 million.
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The Two Catholic Imperial Governors Thrown Out of a Hradčany Castle Window on 23 May 1618 That Started the Thirty Years War On 23 May 1618 a Protestant Bohemian delegation threw two Catholic imperial regents and their secretary out of a third-floor window of Prague Castle into the moat. All three survived. The Catholic faction declared the survival a miracle; the Protestant faction said the men landed on a dung heap. The Thirty Years War began within weeks and killed an estimated 8 million people across central Europe.
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