Defenestration

Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā[1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

This was done in "good Bohemian style", referring to the defenestration which had occurred in Prague's New Town Hall almost 200 years earlier (July 1419), and on that occasion led to the Hussite war.

[5] By extension, the term is also used to describe the forcible or summary removal of an adversary.

In 1618, two Imperial governors and their secretary were tossed from the Prague Castle, sparking the Thirty Years' War.

[7] These incidents, particularly that in 1618, were referred to as the Defenestrations of Prague and gave rise to the term and the concept.

Matthäus Merian 's impression of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague
The defenestration of the Biblical Queen Jezebel at Jezreel , by Gustave Doré
The Bishop of Lisbon D. Martinho de Zamora is thrown by the revolted populace from the cathedral's bell tower, as depicted by Roque Gameiro , in 1904.
Giorgio Vasari 's impression of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
A stuntman diving out a window