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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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