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Mieszko I begins

Foundation of port of Gdansk

Martyrdom of Vojtech (Adalbert) of Prague, on a

Christian mission to the Prussian lands

Execution of bishop Stanislaw of Krakow

Testament of duke Boleslaw Krzywousty (‘Wrymourh’)

opens the wav to a prolonged fragmentation of Polish

territories

Teutonic Knights are established 011 the left bank of the Vistula

Przemysl II crowned king of Poland Teutonic Knights seize Gdansk Teutonic Knights establish their headquarters at Marienburg (Malbork)

Wladystaw I Fokietek crowned king of Poland in Krakow King Casimir III begins expansion into the Rus’ principalities, south-east of Poland

Treaty of Kalisz: king Casimir III recognizes the Teutonic Knights' possession of Gdansk and Pomerania Treaty of Namyslow (Namslau): king Casimir 111 recognizes the l.uxemburgs’ rule in Silesia 1400 Foundation and re-foundation of the University of Krakow (the lagiellonian University)

King Louis issues the privilege of Kosice to the Polish nobility

Treaty of Krėva paves the way to the accession of Jogaila of Lithuania in Poland

Conversion of Jogaila to Catholicism, as Wladyslaw II Jagiello

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1387 Conversion to Latin Catholicism of the Grand Duchy of

Lithuania begins

15 July Г410 Polish and Lithuanian victory over the Teutonic Knights

at the battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg 1422-50 Privileges of Czerwinsk and Jedlnia: Neminem

Captivahimus nisi iure victum

6 Mar. 1454 King Casimir IV decrees the annexation of the Prussian

lands to the Polish Crown 1454 The ‘Thirteen Years War’ with the Teutonic Knights

begins; the ‘Nieszawa privileges’ issued 19 Oct. 1466 The ‘Thirteen Years War’ is ended by the peace of Thorn: Royal Prussia is incorporated into Poland t 505 Privilege of Nihil Novi

1514 Lithuania loses Smolensk to Muscovy

r 5 25 The Lutheran faith is formally established in the duchy

of Prussia and the lands of the Teutonic order are secularized

8 April 1525 Treaty of Krakow: Albrecht of Hohenzollern accepts

rule of the duchy of Prussia as a Polish fief 156т Livonia is incorporated into Poland; establishment of

the duchy of Courland as a Polish fief 4 July 1569 Polish-Lithuanian Union of Lublin

7 July T 572 Death of Sigismund II and extinction of the Jagiellonian

dynasty

1573 The Confederacy of Warsaw: formal admission of the

co-existence of different religious denominations in Poland; Henri of Valois becomes the first king to be fully elected by the body of the Polish nobility t 578 Creation of the Tribunal of the Crown

158т Creation of the Tribunal of Lithuania

1596 Union of Brest: union of Catholicism and Orthodoxy

1610-11 Polish occupation of Moscow during the ‘Time of

Troubles’

1619-29 Polish-Swedish conflict which sees the loss of most of Livonia to Sweden

1620-1 Polish-Turkish war

1632-4 Smolensk war between Poland and Muscovy

1648 Ukrainian revolt erupts under the leadership of Bohdan

Khmel’nvtskyi

1 652 Wladvstaw' Sicinski is the first individual envoy to disrupt

a Sejm through the liberum veto 18 Jan. 1654 Union of Pereiaslav between the Ukraine and Muscovy

165 5 Muscovite and Swedish invasions of the Commonwealth:

the ‘Deluge’ begins

Treaty of Wehlau: Poland abandons its sovereignty over the duchy of Prussia

Peace of Oliva ends the Polish-Swedish war Truce of Andrussovo brings an end to the Polish-Muscovite war: Poland cedes eastern Ukraine to Muscovy (confirmed by the treaty of Moscow, 6 May 168 6)

19 Sept. 1657

8 May 1660 3oJan. 1667

18 Oct. 1672 12 Sept. 1683 1697

26 Jan. 1699 1700

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5 Oct. 1763 May 1764

6 Sept. T764 Feb. T768

5 Aug. 1772

14 Oct. 1773

1788-92 3 May 1791 May T792

23 Jan. 1793

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Treaty of Buczacz: Poland cedes Podole and Kamieniec Podolski to Turkey

Polish participation in the relief of Vienna: defeat of the Turks

Election of Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony, as Augustus 11 of Poland

Peace of Carlowitz: Poland recovers Podole and Kamieniec Podolski

Beginning of the Great Northern War (ends 1721) Election of Stanislaw Leszczynski, as Swedish-backed anti-king

Peter the Great defeats Charles XII at the battle of Poltava

The ‘Silent Sejm’

Divided royal election between Stanislaw Leszczyhski and Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony War of the Polish Succession: Russian intervention secures the Polish throne for Frederick Augustus II as Augustus III

Foundation of the Collegium Nohilium by Stanislaw Konarski

The Seven Years War: neutral Poland serves as a ‘wayside

inn’ for the armies of Prussia, Russia and Austria

E>eath of Augustus III

Reforms of the Convocation Sejm

Flection of king Stanislaw August Poniarowski

Confederacy of Bar inaugurates civil conflict in Poland

Conventions of St Petersburg between Russia, Prussia

and Austria: First Partition of Poland

Establishment of the Commission for National

Education

The Four Years Sejm

Enactment of a reformed constitution

Russian invasion of Poland, supposedly at the invitation