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| 1609 |
| | | Johannes Kepler, in Prague, puts forward the radical proposition that the planets move in elliptical rather than circular orbits | |
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| 1618 |
| | | Bohemian nobles throw the Habsburg regents out of a window in the castle in Prague, thus triggering the Thirty Years' War | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1620 |
| | | The battle of the White Mountain, to the west of Prague, ends the brief reign of Frederick V in Bohemia | |
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| 1680 |
| | | Feudal labour laws demanding corvée (compulsory unpaid labour) are imposed by the Habsburgs on the Czech peasants of Bohemia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian armies join the war against Austria, marching through upper Austria into Bohemia | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian forces enter Prague, one of the most important cities in the Austrian empire | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has its premiere in Prague | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Martial law is imposed in Prague after a demonstration by radical Czech students following a Pan-Slav congress | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Czech composer Anton Dvorák writes his first set of Slavonic Dances, originally as piano duets | |
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