Battle of Lipany: Hussite Wars End as the Radicals Are Crushed
Moderate Utraquist forces destroyed the radical Taborite army at Lipany, killing their leader Prokop the Great and ending twenty years of Hussite religious warfare in Bohemia. The battle allowed the Catholic Church to negotiate the Compacts of Basel, granting Bohemian Hussites limited religious freedoms that made them the first successful Protestant movement in European history.
May 30, 1434
592 years ago
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