{"slug": "hussite-wars", "label": "Hussite Wars", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Wars", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q478301", "qid": "Q478301", "description": "15th-century wars fought between Protestant Hussites and Catholic forces", "entries": 14, "years": 12, "span": [1409, 1436], "span_label": ["1409 CE", "1436 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "czech-republic", "label": "Czech Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sigismund-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-bohemia", "label": "Kingdom of Bohemia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hussites", "label": "Hussites", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wenceslaus-iv-of-bohemia", "label": "Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "prague", "label": "Prague", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wadysaw-ii-jagieo", "label": "Władysław II Jagiełło", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grand-duke-of-lithuania", "label": "Grand Duke of Lithuania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vytautas", "label": "Vytautas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bohemia", "label": "Bohemia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1409, "year_label": "1409 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – Hussite Wars: King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia decides to stop fighting the war against the rebel Jan Žižka in Budějovice.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361998092#April–June", "title": "1409", "revid": 1361998092, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1416, "year_label": "1416 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – Through the Council of Constance and diplomatic treaties during late 1416, Sigismund, King of Germany unifies the fractured Catholic Church and isolates the Bohemian reformers, providing him with the necessary authority to later initiate the Hussite Wars against Jan Žižka.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829186#October–December", "title": "1416", "revid": 1368829186, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1419, "year_label": "1419 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia dies of a heart attack at the age of 58, leading to the outbreak shortly thereafter of the Hussite Wars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358545199#July–September", "title": "1419", "revid": 1358545199, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1420, "year_label": "1420 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – Hussite Wars After their offer of a surrender is refused, the outnumbered Hussites of Bohemia, led by Jan Zizka, defeat the invading Holy Roman Imperial forces at the Battle of Sudoměř fought near modern-day Čejetice in the Czech Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937924#January–March", "title": "1420", "revid": 1365937924, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1420, "year_label": "1420 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Vyšehrad – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, fails and is ejected from Bohemia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937924#October–December", "title": "1420", "revid": 1365937924, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1421, "year_label": "1421 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 21", "text": "December 21 – Hussite Wars: At the Battle of Kutná Hora, the Bohemian Hussites led by Jan Zizka, and using the best weapons available, force the exit of the crusaders of the Holy Roman Empire. Among the new wespons developed by Zizka's officers are the \"war wagon\", a vehicle with reinforced sides and small openings from which guns can be fired.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656442#October–December", "title": "1421", "revid": 1365656442, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1422, "year_label": "1422 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Německý Brod: The Hussites defeat an army of Royalist Crusaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325155630#January–March", "title": "1422", "revid": 1325155630, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1423, "year_label": "1423 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Hořice: The Taborites decisively beat the Utraquists.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656788#April–June", "title": "1423", "revid": 1365656788, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1423, "year_label": "1423 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – Hussite Wars: In what is now the Czech Republic, General Sigismund Korybut, commander of the Hussite Army, withdraws his troops from Prague on the orders of Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656788#October–December", "title": "1423", "revid": 1365656788, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1424, "year_label": "1424 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – After the signing of a treaty between the different factions in the Hussite Wars, the Bohemian campaign is completed in the modern-day Czech Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656911#July_–September", "title": "1424", "revid": 1365656911, "section": "Events › July –September"}}, {"year": 1426, "year_label": "1426 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Aussig: The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies of Germany in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade and then annihilate the town of Aussig (now Ústí nad Labem) the next day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360579570#April–June", "title": "1426", "revid": 1360579570, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1427, "year_label": "1427 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Tachov – The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937201#July–September", "title": "1427", "revid": 1365937201, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1434, "year_label": "1434 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Utraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335073150#April–June", "title": "1434", "revid": 1335073150, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1436, "year_label": "1436 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 5", "text": "July 5 – The Hussite Wars effectively end in Bohemia. Sigismund is accepted as King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320639#July–September", "title": "1436", "revid": 1351320639, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}