Mixed results. For instance, the third defenestration of Prague didn’t kill the defenestrated,1) but sorta kinda kicked off the Thirty Years’ War.
1) One of them, Philip Fabricius, was later ennobled by the Emperor for his troubles and granted the title Baron von Hohenfall - literally ‘Baron of Highfall’.
One of these days I should write an essay on how building codes influenced history and vice versa.
