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| | | The indigenous population of Poland 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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| | 900's | The Polania tribe became dominant | |
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| | 966 | Duke Mieszko I became Poland's first recorded Christian leader 966 - 1370 The Piast Polish Dynasty | |
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| | 1382 | 1382 - 1572 The Jagiellonian Dynasty | |
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| | 1572 | 1572 - 1795 The Royal Republic | |
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| | 1700s | The Three Partitions of Poland - Russia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland amongst themselves | |
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| | 1914 | 1914-18 World War I - Poles were forced into the Russian, German, and Austrian armies and forced to fight each other | |
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| | 1918 | 11 November - Poland becomes independent | |
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| | 1932 | Poland concludes non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. | |
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| | 1934 | Poland signs 10-year non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany | |
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| | 1939 - | 23 August Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact and threaten Poland 1st September Germany invades Poland 17th September Soviet Union invades eastern Poland 1939 - 1945 World War 2 | |
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| | 1944 | The Warsaw Uprising - Poland comes under Soviet control | |
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| | 1947 | Poland becomes a Communist People's Republic | |
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| | 1978 | Karol Wojtyla, Cardinal of Krakow, elected Pope. | |
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| | 1980 | Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity | |
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| | 1981 | Martial law imposed. Many of Solidarity's leaders, including Walesa, are imprisoned | |
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| | 1983 | Martial law lifted. | |
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| | 1990 | Walesa elected president of Poland. | |
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| | 1995 | Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Communist, narrowly beats Lech Walesa to become president. | |
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| | 2004 | May - Poland is one of 10 new states to join the EU. | |
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