Battle of White Mountain
An hour's fighting decides Bohemia's fate for three centuries
On 8 November 1620, outside Prague, the army of Emperor Ferdinand II and the Catholic League defeated the rebel Bohemian Estates. The 'Winter King' Frederick of the Palatinate fled, 27 leaders of the revolt were executed in the Old Town Square, and Bohemia became a hereditary Habsburg land for three centuries.
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Alive at the time
- Galileo Galilei (aged 56)
- René Descartes (aged 24)
- Rembrandt (aged 14)
- Francis Bacon (aged 59)
- James I (aged 54)
- Johannes Kepler (aged 49)
- Abbas the Great (aged 49)
- Nur Jahan (aged 43)
- Ferdinand II (aged 42)
- Tokugawa Hidetada (aged 41)