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 PM 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, Warsaw Poland, Canadian synchro swimmer, Oly-silver-96
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, gymnist, Olympic-1980
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
1952 Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper, Olympics gold 1972
1952 Wojtek Fibak, born in Poland, tennis star
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1951 Panuta Rosani, born in Poland, discus, Olympic 1976, drug disqualified
1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws
1950 German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1950 German DR 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 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/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), 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, Olympics gold 1964, 68
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
1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1939 Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
1939 Nazi Gov 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 PM 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 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
1934 Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland, long jumper 1956 Olympics gold
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
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
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law
1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Lwow Poland, conductor, Die Zauberflote
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
1911 Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland, 1947..70
1911 Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter, Oly-gold-32
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
1899 Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-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 Phil Orch 1936-41
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, pres-in-exile, 1979-86
1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet, Noise of Time
1886 David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel, 1948-53, 55
1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician and mathematician
1886 Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
1885 Albrecht, von, Kesselring, German fieldmarshal, 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, PM of Poland, 1920-21, 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
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 Lt-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 L˜fland 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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