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2008 Bronislaw Geremek, dies in Poland, in a car accident, at 76
2003 United States, Briain, Australia and Poland invade Iraq without United Nations sanction 1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join 1997 Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies 1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed 1993 Parliamentary election in Poland 1992 Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies 1991 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18 1991 U.S. forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland 1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland 1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president 1990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland 1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns 1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election 1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World 1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland 1989 Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland 1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland 1987 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland 1983 Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law 1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1982 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland 1982 U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union 1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions 1982 Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland 1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1981 Poland premier Jagielski resigns 1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek 1980 Poland acknowledges Solidarity union 1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns 1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union forms 1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch 1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike 1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8") 1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland 1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1977 Michael Klim, Poland, Australian swimmer 1996 Olympics 1977 Anca Barna, Cluj, Romania, tennis star, semifinals 1995 ITF Poland 1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed 1976 Kasia Kulesza, born in Warsaw, Poland, Canadian synchro swimmer, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics 1976 Agnieszka Zielinska, Miss Poland Universe 1997 1975 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland 1975 Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 1972 West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations 1972 Mariusz Czerkawski, born in Radomsko, Poland, NHL right wing for the Edmonton Oilers 1971 Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, U.S. fencer-sabre 1996 Olympics 1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader 1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike 1970 West Germany and Poland normalize relations 1970 Izabella Scorupco, born in Bialystok, Poland, actress, Golden Eye 1969 Katarzyna Nowak, Lodz Poland, tennis star, 1994 Futures France 1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71 1967 French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1966 Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnast, 1980 Olympics 1961 Danuta Bartoszek, born in Pyrzyce, Poland, Canadian marathoner 1996 Olympics 1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland 1959 Basia Trzetrzelevska, Poland, jazz singer, Time and Life 1957 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million 1957 Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election 1957 Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress, Gorky Park, Kiss 1956 Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin and Wroclaw Poland 1956 Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die 1955 Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1955 Juliusz Machulski, born in Poland, director, writer and actor, Do It Yourself 1954 Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008 1952 Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1952 Wojtek Fibak, born in Poland, tennis star 1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution 1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws 1950 East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland 1950 East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border 1949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland 1949 Emmanuel Ax, born in Lvov, Poland, pianist, Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974 1948 Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa 1948 Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer 1947 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland 1946 Eva Klobukowska, born in Poland, relay sprinter 1964 Olympic gold 1946 Zbigniew Kaczmarek, born in Poland, lightweight 1976 Olympics gold 1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland 1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die 1946 Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner, 1968 Olym Gold 1945 Daniel Olbrychski, Poland, actor, La Truite 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland 1944 Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland 1943 Rolf Gehlhaar, born in Breslau, Poland, composer, known for computer-controlled composition, sound installations using Sound Space system 1943 Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master, 1976 1943 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland 1943 Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983 1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1943 Edward Skorek, Poland, volleyball player 1976 Olympics gold 1942 SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period 1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland 1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland 1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland 1941 Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto 1941 Miroslav Hermazewski, Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 30 1941 Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 13, 18B, 30 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto 1941 Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, born in Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 13, 18B, 30 1941 German troops occupy Galicia Poland 1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany 1941 Krzysztof Kieslowski, born in Poland, director/actor, Underground Passage 1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there 1941 New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland 1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland 1940 Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland 1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1940 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 1940 Barbara Buczek, born in Krakow, Poland, composer, works include, Study Nr. 1 for flute solo, 1990, Blaeserquintett, 1969 1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed 1939 Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat 1939 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star 1939 Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David 1939 U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews 1939 Germany annexes Western Poland 1939 Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland 1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender 1939 Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland 1939 Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner 1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland 1939 WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1939 Poland mobilizes 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) 1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland 1939 Great Britain and Poland sign military pact 1939 Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany 1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland 1938 Zygmunt Krauze, born in Poland, composer, pianist, contemporary classical music genre, professor, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy 1938 Jews injured and property destroyed in Przemyal Poland 1938 Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End 1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland 1937 Zenon Jankowski, Poland cosmonaut, Soyuz 30 backup 1937 Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar' 1934 Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland, long jumper 1956 Olympics gold 1934 Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize 1934 Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty 1934 Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years 1933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Debica Poland, composer, Hiroshima Threnody 1933 Roman Polanski, Poland, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates 1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) 1932 Poland and U.S.S.R. signs non-attack treaty 1932 Wojciech Kilar, born in Lwow, Poland, composer of film, classical, symphonic music, won French Lili Boulanger Prize for composition 1960 1931 Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty 1929 U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact 1929 Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist 1928 Bella Darvi, Bayla Wegier, Sosnowiec Poland, actress, Racers 1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland 1927 Zbigniew Cybulski, Pniarz Poland, actor, See You Tommorrow 1927 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, premier of Poland, 1989-90 1926 Klaus Kinski, Nikolas Naksynski, Poland, actor, Little Drummer Girl 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1926 Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor, And Now My Love 1926 Andrzej Wajda, born in Suwalki, Poland, director, Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna 1925 Sala Burton, born in Bialystok, Poland, Representative-D-California 1983 - 1987 1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law 1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Lwow Poland, conductor, Die Zauberflote 1923 Henryk Czyz, born in Grudziadz, Poland, composer, wrote contemporary music, performed in Europe, America and South America 1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania 1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated 1922 Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland 1921 Stanislaw Lem, born in Poland, sci-fi author, Solaris, Invincible 1921 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged 1921 Cec Linder, born in Galica, Poland, actor, Goldfinger 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania 1920 Ross Martin, born in Grodek, Poland, actor, Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West 1920 John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Poland, Pope, 1978- 1919 Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1918 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland 1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland 1918 Poland declares independence 1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski 1918 Republic of Poland proclaimed 1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I 1918 Henryk Szeryng, Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist, Brahms Concerto 1916 Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland 1914 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland 1914 Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer, Tragic Overture 1914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland 1913 Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Poland, lawyer, Solidarity 1913 Witold Lutoslawski, Warsaw Poland, composer, Jeux Venitiens 1912 Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York 1911 Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland, 1947..70 1911 Stanislawa Walasiewicz, born in Poland, sprinter, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics, Silver Medal 1936 Olympics 1910 Josef Tal, born in Pinne, Poland, born Joseph Gruenthal, composer, pianist, played hard with Palestine Orchestra, developed notational system for computer-generated compositions at Hebrew University 1909 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer, Ashes and Diamonds 1909 Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress, Great Waltz 1908 Russia takes part of Poland 1907 Shimen Rushkin, Poland, actor, Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time 1906 St. Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland" 1906 Ned Glass, born in Poland, actor, Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie 1905 Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland 1904 Isaac Bashevis Singer, born in Poland, Yiddish novelist, Enemies-Nobel 1978 1903 George E. Stone, Lodz Poland, actor, Viva Villa, Last Mile 1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland 1902 Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor, Her Wonderful Lie 1901 John Bleifer, born in Zawiercie, Poland, actor, Highway to Heaven 1901 Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer 1900 Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower 1928 Olympics gold 1900 Leo Smit, born in Amsterdam, Holland, composer, killed in Poland during the Holocaust 1899 Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo 1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 1897 Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer, Dyptique 1896 Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland 1895 Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor, Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936 - 1941 1894 Howard Wendell, Poland, actor, 4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland 1892 Artur Rodzinski, Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor/composer 1891 Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, president-in-exile, 1979 - 1986 1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet, Noise of Time 1890 Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte' 1886 David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel, 1948 - 1953, 1955 1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician and mathematician 1886 Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist 1885 Albrecht, von, Kesselring, German Field Marshal, Poland/Netherland 1885 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland, 1939-40 1884 Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer, Daniel Jazz 1883 Alfred Korzybski, born in Poland, scientist, Science and Sanity 1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430 1881 Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general 1881 Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer, Kirov is With Us 1880 Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities 1880 Shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer, Motke Ganev 1877 Wanda A. Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist, Musique Ancienne 1874 Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, Prime Minister of Poland, 1920 - 1921, 1923, 1926 1873 Waclaw Rawicz, Berent, Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer 1868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist, Chiopi, Nobel-1924 1867 Ira F Aldridge, U.S. actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63 1865 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet, Young Poland 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland 1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland 1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland, 1919-20 1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot 1859 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist, Esperanto 1857 Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness 1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905 1840 Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress, Juliet, anti-Russian 1835 Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist and composer, Souv de Moscou 1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic 1810 Frederic Chopin, born in Poland, composer/pianist, Concert in F Minor 1798 Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz 1795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland 1793 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia and Russia 1793 Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) 1792 Russian army enters Poland 1785 Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland 1775 Poland and Prussia sign trade agreement 1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland 1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland 1772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1766 Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies 1763 August III, king of Poland, dies at 66 1747 Tadeusz Kosciusko, Poland, patriot, New York Bridge 1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland 1733 August II, the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62 1732 Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland, 1764-95 1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland 1699 Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden 1699 Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey 1696 August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen 1696 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 72 1696 Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies 1686 Mathias Rauchmuller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz 1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey 1676 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw 1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland 1673 Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies 1673 Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies 1672 John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 1672 Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 1672 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz 1670 August II, the Strong One, King of Poland, 355 children 1668 King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France 1667 Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia 1667 Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo 1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva 1657 Brandenburg and Poland sign unity of Bromberg 1657 Brandenburg and Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau 1656 Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden 1656 Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant 1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant 1654 Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland 1648 Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies 1635 Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf 1634 Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov 1632 Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65 1629 Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark 1624 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland, 1674-96 1621 Turkey and Poland signs Peace of Chotin 1620 Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland 1618 Russia and Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino 1609 John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland, 1648-68 1609 Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland, 1648-68 1595 Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland, 1632-48 1589 Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 1587 Sigismund III becomes king of Poland 1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic 1575 Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland 1574 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland 1572 Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51 1572 August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42 1569 Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland 1566 Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden 1561 Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland 1551 Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France, 1573/4-89 1548 Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 1543 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland 1541 Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu 1520 Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1548-72 1515 Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire 1501 Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies 1492 Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Poland, astronomer, heliocentrism 1467 Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland 1444 Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20 1434 Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies 1427 Kazimierz IV, king of Poland, 1447-92 1424 Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary 1410 Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland 1404 Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland 1382 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies 1370 Kazimierz III, the Great, king of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61 1342 John I, ruler of Poland, dies 1333 Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies 1326 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary, 1342-82, Poland, 1370-82 1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland 1309 Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland, 1333-70 1271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia and Poland, 1278-1305 1202 Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies 1194 Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies 1138 Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, scheefmond, duke of Poland, dies 1058 Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies 1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies 1025 Boleslaw I Chobry, the brave, duke/king of Poland, dies |
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