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Encyclopedia > Jan Zelivsky

Jan Želivský (1380 - 9 March 1422) was a Czech priest and a radical representative of the Hussite reformation. Events September 8 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols (the Golden Horde), stopping their advance at Kulikovo. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... Events August 31 - Henry VI becomes King of England. ... The Hussites comprised an early Protestant Christian movement, followers of Jan Hus. ...


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Hussite Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3014 words)
The Hussite Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 to circa 1434.
At Prague a demagogue, the priest Jan Zelivsky, for a time obtained almost unlimited authority over the lower classes of the townsmen; and at Tabor a communistic movement (that of the so-called Adamites) was sternly suppressed by Zizka.
Jan Zelivsky was on 9 March 1422 arrested by the town council of Prague and decapitated.
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