In 1419 Hussite mob defenestrates a judge, the burgomaster, and some thirteen members of the town council of New Town of Prague. In 1383, Bishop Dom Martinho was defenestrated by the citizens of Lisbon, having been suspected of conspiring with the enemy when Lisbon was besieged by the Castilians. At least 15 patricians were killed during this defenestration of Leuven. The crowd stormed the city hall and defenestrated the patricians. Seeking revenge, the crafts handed over the patrician to a furious crowd. In an attempt to regain absolute control, they had Wouter van der Leyden assassinated in Brussels. The patricians did not accept this easily, as it caused them to lose their absolute power. 
After negotiations between the parties, they agreed to share the government. Most of the patricians left the city and fled to Aarschot.
In 1378, the crafts and their leader Wouter van der Leyden occupied the Leuven city hall and seized the Leuven government. It has been suggested by several chronicles (notably the Annals of Westhide Abbey) that King John killed his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, by defenestration from the castle at Rouen, France, in 1203. 
Around the 9th century BC, Queen Jezebel was defenestrated by her own eunuch servants, at the urging of Jehu, according to the Hebrew Bible. Giorgio Vasari's impression of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
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