Wenceslaus III of Bohemia assassinated at Olomouc
1306
The last of the Přemyslid kings was stabbed to death in a Dominican convent while preparing to claim the Polish crown. His assassin was never conclusively identified. With him ended a dynasty that had ruled Bohemia for four centuries. The throne passed to the Luxembourgs, who would reshape Central Europe from Prague's castle hill.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.