Usti nad Luznici

(now Sezimovo Usti)

Bohemia, Czech Republic


1419

22 July 1419
Some 40,000 people from all over Bohemia gathered on nearby Mount Tabor for an open-air communion service at which communion was served in both kinds (i.e. wine as well as bread). This was in protest against the orders of the King and the practice of the Catholic priests.


1420

February 1420
A force of Taborites & peasants captured this town on the Luznica River. They soon moved to a nearby promontory on the river and called it Tabor, after nearby Mount Tabor.





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