The famous "Defenestration of Prague," during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Her ambassador got thrown out the window by the king there.
I believe it was Ambassadors from the Holy Roman Empire who were defenestrated.
the defenestration scene from Braveheart is my favorite in that movie.
Thanks for the new word!
Oh, and with dictionary.com, everyone has a thesaurus. Here's an interesting entry, well to me, anyway:
defenestration
n. [mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom]
1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that was _awful_!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!"
2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window.
3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?"
4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). "Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon."
5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux).
Source: Jargon File 4.2.0
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=defenestration