27 Czech Nobles Executed in Prague: Habsburg Revenge for the Defenestration
Twenty-seven men knelt in Prague's Old Town Square and it took four hours to kill them all. The executioner, Jan Mydlář, worked through nobles, knights, and burghers — Protestant leaders who'd backed the wrong king after White Mountain. Their heads went up on the Charles Bridge as a warning. But here's the thing: Bohemia never really forgot. That square, those iron hooks, that morning in June became the wound Czech national identity kept returning to for three hundred years.
June 21, 1621
405 years ago
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