Charles IV dies in Prague
November 1378
The Bohemian-born emperor who had favored Prague over every German city died in his stone hilltop city after thirty-two years of statecraft. He left a strong Bohemia to his erratic son Wenceslaus and a fragmenting empire that had survived plague and schism more or less intact under his careful patience.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.