<P> There was plundering and pillaging in Prague for weeks following the battle . Several months later, twenty - seven nobles and citizens were tortured and executed in the Old Town Square . Twelve of their heads were impaled on iron hooks and hung from the Bridge Tower as a warning . This also contributed to catalyzing the Thirty Years' War . </P> <P> More events of defenestration have occurred in Prague during its history, but they are not usually called defenestrations of Prague . </P> <P> A defenestration (chronologically the second defenestration of Prague, sometimes called one - and - halfth defenestration) happened on 24 September 1483, when a violent overthrow of the municipal governments of the Old and New Towns ended with throwing the Old - Town portreeve and the bodies of seven killed aldermen out of the windows of the respective town halls . </P> <P> Sometimes, the name the third defenestration of Prague is used, although it has no standard meaning . For example, it has been used to describe the death of Jan Masaryk, who was found below the bathroom window of the building of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 March 1948 . The official report listed the death as a suicide . However, it was widely believed he was murdered, either by the nascent Communist government in which he served as a non-partisan Foreign Minister, or by the Soviet secret services . A Prague police report in 2004 concluded after forensic research that Masaryk had indeed been defenestrated to his death . This report was seemingly corroborated in 2006 when a Russian journalist said that his mother knew the Russian intelligence officer who defenestrated Masaryk . </P>

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