Event that triggered the Thirty Years' War
Accident
Second Defenestration of Prague (1618)
Event that triggered the Thirty Years' War
- 23 May 1618
- Defenestration of Prague window
- Europe
Meanwhile, elsewhere
- 1517 – 1648Protestant Reformation
- 1568 – 1918Russo-Turkish Wars
- 21 October 1600Battle of SekigaharaEast Asia
- 1493 – 1898Spanish colonization of the Americas
- 1611 – 1721Swedish Empire
- 1609 – 1924American Indian WarsNorth America
- 1616 – 1683transition from Ming to QingEast Asia
- 1601 – 1661Dutch–Portuguese War