At Prague Castle on May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants, led by Count Thurn, tried two Imperial governors, Vilem Slavata of Chlum and Jaroslav Borzita of Martinice, for violating the Letter of Majesty (Right of Freedom of Religion), found them guilty, and threw them, together with their scribe Philip Fabricius, out of the 30 metre high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery. They landed on a large pile of manure in a dry moat and survived.

Estimated death toll of the Thirty Years' War:
Between 3,000,000 and 11,500,000.