John had his officials sell indulgences, a controversial practice that was protested in various parts of Europe, for instance by the followers of Jan Hus in Prague.

The Council also condemned and executed Jan Hus and ruled on issues of national sovereignty, the rights of pagans, and just war in response to a conflict between the Kingdom of Poland and the Order of the Teutonic Knights.

Painting of Jan Hus in Council of Constance by Václav Brožík

These reforms were largely directed against John Wycliff, mentioned in the opening session, and condemned in the eighth, 4 May 1415 and Jan Hus, and their followers.

Jan Hus, summoned to Constance under a letter of indemnity, was condemned by council and burned at the stake notwithstanding on 6 July 1415.

The Hussites ( or Kališníci ; " Chalice People ") were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus ( c. 1369 – 1415 ), who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.

After the Council of Constance lured Jan Hus in with a letter of indemnity, then tried him for heresy and put him to death at the stake on 6 July 1415, the Hussites fought the Hussite Wars ( 1420 – 1434 ) for their religious and political cause.

The authorities of both countries appealed urgently and repeatedly to King Sigismund to release Jan Hus ( John Huss ).

* 1415 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake.

* Jan Hus Day ( Czech Republic )

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* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

At his trial in 1415, Jan Hus argued that the Church does not necessarily need a Pope, because, during the Pontificate of " Pope Agnes " ( as he also called her ), it got on quite well.

Nevertheless, other interpretations have been suggested, such as the chalice used by the followers of Czech Jan Hus, or its vague resemblance to a cross in some stylized representations.

* 1415: Jan Hus is burned at the stake as a heretic at the Council of Constance.

* Jan Hus begins preaching Wycliffite ideas in Bohemia.

* Jan Hus is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague.

* June 5 – The Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy ; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then sentenced to be burned at the stake.

* July 6 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Konstanz.

* July 6 – Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer ( burned at the stake ) ( b. 1369 )

Martin Luther's spiritual predecessors included John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, who likewise had attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Church.

Older Protestant churches, such as the Unitas Fratrum ( Unity of the Brethren ), Moravian Brethren ( Bohemian Brethren ) date their origins to Jan Hus in the early 15th century.

The first of a series of disruptive and new perspectives came from John Wycliffe at Oxford University, then from Jan Hus at the University of Prague.

* 1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh, Bohemian composer ( d. 1814 )

* 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian doctor and scientist ( d. 1667 )

* June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist ( d. 1677 )

* October 16 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer ( d. 1745 )

Wenceslaus also faced serious opposition from the Bohemian nobles and even from his chancellor, the Prague archbishop Jan of Jenštejn.

As Bohemian king he sought to protect the religious reformer Jan Hus and his followers against the demands of the Roman Catholic Church for their suppression as heretics.

About the real cause of Henry IV's death, there are several independent sources: these are the tombs of the Silesian Dukes, the Chronicle of Jan Dlugosz, and later chroniclers, like the Bohemian Chronicle of Pulkawy and the Chronicle of Ottokar of Styria.

* The Moravian Brethren ( also known as United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum and Bohemian Brethren ) descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and mainly Bohemian 15th century nobleman and theologian Peter Chelcicky.

An army of Utraquist nobility and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeated the radical Taborites and Orphans led by Prokop the Great, the overall commander, and by Jan Čapek of Sány, the cavalry commander.

* Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict: Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms Peter Byrne, North Bay Bohemian, Jan. 24, 2007.

Jan Baťa expanded the Bohemian and Moravian part of the business, more than doubling its size to 38, 000 employees, 2, 200 shops and 70 enterprises.

The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1419 to circa 1434.

At the time it already had a Gymnasium school led for a period by Jan Amos Komenský ( known in English as Comenius ), a Bohemian educator who was a bishop of the Unity of the Brethren.

The Unity of the Brethren (; Latin: Unitas Fratrum ), also known as Czech or Bohemian Brethren, is a Christian denomination whose roots are in the pre-reformation work of priest and philosopher Jan Hus, who was martyred in 1415.

According to some Protestant sources the figure of St. John Nepomuk is a legend due to Jesuits and its historical kernel is really Jan Hus, who was metamorphosed from a Bohemian Reformer into a Roman Catholic saint: the Nepomuk story would be based on Wenceslaus Hajek's blending of the Jan who was drowned in 1393 and the Jan who was burned in 1415.

Jan Ladislav, the oldest of three children, was born in the Bohemian town of Čáslav, where his father taught and played the organ.

The preachers Thomas and Valentine, followers of the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus, were responsible for this work, of which the prophetic books, the Psalms, and the Gospels have survived.

Just walking distance from the site of Palach's self-immolation, a statuary in Prague's Old Town Square honours iconic Bohemian religious thinker Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake for his beliefs in 1415.

Tabor's army was led by Jan Žižka, the Bohemian general who commanded his rag-tag army in defense of Bohemia against the crusading Imperial Army under Emperor Sigismund.