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Important Czechoslovak people, dates and events
Slavs settle in eastern Alps
The Hussite Wars
The first Slavic Congress
The Communist Era

The indigenous population of Czechoslovakia were the Slavic tribes:
- 'West Slavs' tribes were the Poles, the Czechs and the Slovaks
- 'East Slavs' tribes consisted of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusian's
- 'South Slavs' tribes consisted of Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians Serbs and Slovenians

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15 BC

 

The Romans began to extend their empire

0

 

The birth of Jesus Christ

33

 

Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the Roman province of Jerusalem and the origin of Christianity

476

 

The Roman Empire collapsed

550

 

Slavs begin settling in eastern Alps

700's

 

The rule of Charlemagne who was the King of the Franks

750

 

750-800 The spread of Christianity in the Slovene lands

830

 

Moravian Empire was established

907

 

Moravian Empire collapsed with the invasion from Hungary

962

 

The Holy Roman Empire established

1085

 

Vratislav II became the first Czech king starting the Premyslid dynasty

1306

 

Premyslid dynasty ends with the death of King Wenceslas III

1414

 

Jan Hus spoke against the corruption of the Catholic Church and conducted his sermons in Czech so it could be understood by ordinary people

1415

 

Jan Husburnt at the stake

1420

 

1420 to 1434:  The Hussite Wars

1458

 

The Hussites elected a Czech Protestant, George of Podebrady, as the new king

1526

 

1526 - 1790: The Hapsburg Dynasty

1740

 

1740-1780: The duke of Bavaria, Charles Albert, proclaimed king by Czech nobility but Maria Theresa (1717-17800) daughter of Holy Roman Emperor rules the Hapsburg lands

1764

 

1764-1790 KingJoseph II's reign. 1760s was the period of Slovene Enlightenment. The provinces of the Czech and Austrian territories were subdivided into administrative districts and German became the official language

1769

 

Late 1700s-1815 The Napoleonic Wars lead by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

1809

 

1809-1813: Illyrian Provinces established by Napoleon Bonaparte which included Slovene lands

1815

 

Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated

1848

 

Czechs convened the first Slavic Congress to discuss the possibility of political consolidation of Austrian Slavs, including Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs

1914

 

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated starting World War I

1918

 

3 November: World War I ended

1918

 

12 November: The last Habsburg Emperor was overthrown

1918

 

October 28: The fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I and the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia

1938

 

September: Germany, Britain, France and Italy sign the Munich Pact, giving Adolf Hitler the right to invade and claim Czechoslovakia's border areas

1939

 

March 15: Czechoslovakia invaded by Adolf Hitler's army

1939

 

September: World War 2starts

1945

 

August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending WW2

1942

 

Slovene Covenant established

1945

 

May 5: Prague Uprising and the territories of the Czech Republic liberated

1945

 

August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and World War 2ends

1945

 

1945 - 1989 The Communist Era

1980's

 

Russian perestroika was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev marking the last years of communism in Czechoslovakia

1968

 

August 21: Five Warsaw Pact member countries invade Czechoslovakia and Soviet troops continue to occupy the country until 1989

1989

 

November: The Velvet Revolution brought an end to communism

1993

 

January 1 Czechoslovakia peacefully splits into two independent countries - the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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