Estonian peasants rise on St. George's Night
1343
Estonian villagers, groaning under Danish rule, rose in coordinated rebellion against their German landlords on the eve of St. George's feast. Manor houses burned across Harju and Laane. The Teutonic Order intervened, slaughtered peasants by the thousands, and bought the entire province from Denmark within three years. Estonia became a Baltic crusader state for two more centuries.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.