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The Cult Dossier · No. 020 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
Taborites and the Bohemian Adamites
PIKARTI — an enemies' label, from 'Picards', applied to them by hostile Hussites
1419 – 1434 · Bohemia
II. MEDIEVAL — HERESY, DUALISM AND THE MILLENNIUM
Fully religious — radical Hussite millenarianism
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 6 July 1415 Jan Hus burned at Konstanz, provoking the Hussite Wars.
- 30 July 1419 First Defenestration of Prague.
- February 1420 Taborite preachers name the date of Christ's return; it passes.
- SPRING 1421 The Adamites — ABOUT 200 PEOPLE — break away from the community around the Tábor priests MARTIN HÚSKA and PETR KÁNIŠ and are expelled for extremism. They occupy an island in the Nežárka river and raid and burn surrounding villages, REPORTEDLY killing hundreds — reportedly, because the reports are their enemies'.
- 21 October 1421 Žižka storms the island; roughly 40–50 surviving Adamites are burned alive. Only one is spared to describe the sect.
- 30 May 1434 Battle of Lipany — the moderate Utraquists destroy the Taborite field army; Prokop the Great is killed.
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