Prague

사건 (18)

• 1348

  4/7 — Charles University is founded in Prague.

• 1357

  7/9 — Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.

• 1419

  7/30 — First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

• 1620

  11/8 — The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.

• 1621

  6/21 — Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

• 1631

  10/10 — An Electorate of Saxony army takes over Prague.

• 1757

  5/6 — Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.

• 1787

  10/29 — Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

• 1848

  6/2 — The Slavic congress in Prague begins.

• 1897

  1/31 — Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.

• 1942

  5/27 — World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

• 1969

  1/16 — 체코 학생 Jan Palach이 프라하, 체코슬로바키아에서 소련의 전년도 프라하의 봄을 억압한 것에 반대하여 자살 시험을 시행합니다.

• 1969

  1/19 — Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.

• 1989

  11/20 — Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

• 1991

  7/1 — The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

• 2000

  9/26 — Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.

• 2008

  8/8 — A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.

• 2013

  4/29 — A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.