2014 Event Five cities have submitted bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics: Oslo, Norway; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing, China; Krakow, Poland and Lviv, Ukraine; the winner will be selected in July 2015 2011 Event Poland announces it will provide amnesty to illegal immigrants beginning January 1, 2012 2011 Event In Poland, the Polish People's Party coalition becomes the first government to be reelected since Poland transitioned to democracy in 1989 2010 Event Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed 2010 Event Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010 2010 Event Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors 2010 Event Extreme cold temperatures across Europe lead to 122 deaths in Poland, 7 die in Switzerland as the result of an avalanche 2009 Event More than 2,000 people found in Poland's largest mass grave during World War II are reburied in a military cemetary 2008 Death Bronislaw Geremek, dies in Poland, in a car accident, at 76 2003 Event United States, Briain, Australia and Poland invade Iraq without United Nations sanction 1997 Event NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join 1997 Death Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies 1995 Event Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 1994 Event Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed 1993 Event Parliamentary election in Poland 1992 Death Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies 1991 Event 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18 1991 Event U.S. forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland 1991 Event Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland 1990 Event Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president 1990 Event Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland 1990 Event Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns 1990 Event Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election 1989 Event Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World 1989 Event Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 1989 Event Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland 1989 Event Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland 1989 Event Solidarity grants legal status in Poland 1987 Event Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland 1983 Event Poland's Prime Minister Januzelski lifts martial law 1983 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1982 Event Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland 1982 Event U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union 1982 Event Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions 1982 Event Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland 1981 Event Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1981 Event Poland premier Jagielski resigns 1981 Event Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek 1980 Event Poland acknowledges Solidarity union 1980 Event Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 1980 Event Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns 1980 Event Poland's Solidarity labor union forms 1980 Event Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch 1980 Event In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike 1980 Event Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8") 1979 Event Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland 1979 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1979 Event John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 1979 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1977 Birthday Michael Klim, Poland, Australian swimmer 1996 Olympics 1977 Birthday Anca Barna, Cluj, Romania, tennis star, semifinals 1995 ITF Poland 1977 Event Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed 1976 Birthday Kasia Kulesza, born in Warsaw, Poland, Canadian synchro swimmer, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics 1976 Birthday Agnieszka Zielinska, Miss Poland Universe 1997 1975 Event Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland 1975 Event Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 1972 Event West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations 1972 Birthday Mariusz Czerkawski, born in Radomsko, Poland, NHL right wing for the Edmonton Oilers 1971 Birthday Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, U.S. fencer-sabre 1996 Olympics 1970 Event Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader 1970 Event Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike 1970 Event West Germany and Poland normalize relations 1970 Birthday Izabella Scorupco, born in Bialystok, Poland, actress, Golden Eye 1969 Birthday Katarzyna Nowak, Lodz Poland, tennis star, 1994 Futures France 1968 Death Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71 1967 Event French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1966 Birthday Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnast, 1980 Olympics 1961 Birthday Danuta Bartoszek, born in Pyrzyce, Poland, Canadian marathoner 1996 Olympics 1960 Event Protest strike in Poznan Poland 1959 Birthday Basia Trzetrzelevska, Poland, jazz singer, Time and Life 1957 Event U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million 1957 Event Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election 1957 Birthday Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress, Gorky Park, Kiss 1956 Event Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin and Wroclaw Poland 1956 Event Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die 1955 Event Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement 1955 Event Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1955 Birthday Juliusz Machulski, born in Poland, director, writer and actor, Do It Yourself 1954 Birthday 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 Birthday Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1952 Birthday Wojtek Fibak, born in Poland, tennis star 1952 Event Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution 1950 Event ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws 1950 Event East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland 1950 Event East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border 1949 Event 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland 1949 Birthday Emmanuel Ax, born in Lvov, Poland, pianist, Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974 1948 Birthday Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa 1948 Birthday Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer 1947 Death Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 1947 Event Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland 1946 Birthday Eva Klobukowska, born in Poland, relay sprinter 1964 Olympic gold 1946 Birthday Zbigniew Kaczmarek, born in Poland, lightweight 1976 Olympics gold 1946 Event Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland 1946 Event Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die 1946 Birthday Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner, 1968 Olym Gold 1945 Birthday Daniel Olbrychski, Poland, actor, La Truite 1945 Event Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1944 Event Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 1944 Event Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland 1944 Event Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland 1943 Birthday Rolf Gehlhaar, born in Breslau, Poland, composer, known for computer-controlled composition, sound installations using Sound Space system 1943 Birthday Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master, 1976 1943 Event 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland 1943 Birthday Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983 1943 Death Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1943 Birthday Edward Skorek, Poland, volleyball player 1976 Olympics gold 1942 Event SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period 1942 Event 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland 1942 Event Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland 1942 Event SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland 1941 Event Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts 1941 Event Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto 1941 Birthday Miroslav Hermazewski, Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 30 1941 Birthday Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 13, 18B, 30 1941 Event Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto 1941 Birthday Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, born in Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 13, 18B, 30 1941 Event German troops occupy Galicia Poland 1941 Event Bialystok Poland falls to Germany 1941 Birthday Krzysztof Kieslowski, born in Poland, director/actor, Underground Passage 1941 Event Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there 1941 Event New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland 1941 Event 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland 1940 Birthday Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics 1940 Event Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland 1940 Event Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1940 Death Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 1940 Birthday Barbara Buczek, born in Krakow, Poland, composer, works include, Study Nr. 1 for flute solo, 1990, Blaeserquintett, 1969 1939 Event New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed 1939 Event Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat 1939 Event Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star 1939 Event Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David 1939 Event U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews 1939 Event Germany annexes Western Poland 1939 Event Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland 1939 Event Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender 1939 Event Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 1939 Event Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland 1939 Event Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Event Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner 1939 Event Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1939 Event Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland 1939 Event WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1939 Event Poland mobilizes 1939 Event Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) 1939 Event Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland 1939 Event Great Britain and Poland sign military pact 1939 Event Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany 1939 Event Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland 1938 Birthday Zygmunt Krauze, born in Poland, composer, pianist, contemporary classical music genre, professor, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy 1938 Event Jews injured and property destroyed in Przemyal Poland 1938 Birthday Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End 1938 Event Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland 1937 Birthday Zenon Jankowski, Poland cosmonaut, Soyuz 30 backup 1937 Birthday Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar' 1934 Birthday Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland, long jumper 1956 Olympics gold 1934 Birthday Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize 1934 Event Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty 1934 Event Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years 1933 Birthday Krzysztof Penderecki, Debica Poland, composer, Hiroshima Threnody 1933 Birthday Roman Polanski, Poland, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates 1933 Event Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) 1932 Event Poland and U.S.S.R. signs non-attack treaty 1932 Birthday Wojciech Kilar, born in Lwow, Poland, composer of film, classical, symphonic music, won French Lili Boulanger Prize for composition 1960 1931 Event Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty 1929 Event U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact 1929 Birthday Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist 1928 Birthday Bella Darvi, Bayla Wegier, Sosnowiec Poland, actress, Racers 1928 Event 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland 1927 Birthday Zbigniew Cybulski, Pniarz Poland, actor, See You Tommorrow 1927 Birthday Tadeusz Mazowiecki, premier of Poland, 1989-90 1926 Birthday Klaus Kinski, Nikolas Naksynski, Poland, actor, Little Drummer Girl 1926 Event Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1926 Birthday Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor, And Now My Love 1926 Birthday Andrzej Wajda, born in Suwalki, Poland, director, Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna 1925 Birthday Sala Burton, born in Bialystok, Poland, Representative-D-California 1983 - 1987 1924 Birthday Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law 1923 Birthday Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Lwow Poland, conductor, Die Zauberflote 1923 Birthday Henryk Czyz, born in Grudziadz, Poland, composer, wrote contemporary music, performed in Europe, America and South America 1923 Event Poland annexes Central Lithuania 1923 Event Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland 1922 Death Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated 1922 Event Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland 1921 Birthday Stanislaw Lem, born in Poland, sci-fi author, Solaris, Invincible 1921 Event 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged 1921 Birthday Cec Linder, born in Galica, Poland, actor, Goldfinger 1920 Event Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania 1920 Birthday Ross Martin, born in Grodek, Poland, actor, Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West 1920 Birthday John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Poland, Pope, 1978- 1919 Event Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1918 Event Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland 1918 Event Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland 1918 Event Poland declares independence 1918 Event Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski 1918 Event Republic of Poland proclaimed 1918 Event Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I 1918 Birthday Henryk Szeryng, Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist, Brahms Concerto 1916 Event Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland 1914 Event Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland 1914 Birthday Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer, Tragic Overture 1914 Event Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland 1913 Birthday Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Poland, lawyer, Solidarity 1913 Birthday Witold Lutoslawski, Warsaw Poland, composer, Jeux Venitiens 1911 Birthday Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland, 1947..70 1911 Birthday Stanislawa Walasiewicz, born in Poland, sprinter, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics, Silver Medal 1936 Olympics 1910 Birthday 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 Birthday Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer, Ashes and Diamonds 1909 Birthday Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress, Great Waltz 1908 Event Russia takes part of Poland 1908 Birthday Howard Wendell, Poland, actor, 4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake 1907 Birthday 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 1907 Birthday Shimen Rushkin, Poland, actor, Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time 1906 Event St. Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland" 1906 Birthday Ned Glass, born in Poland, actor, Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie 1905 Birthday Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland 1904 Birthday Isaac Bashevis Singer, born in Poland, Yiddish novelist, Enemies-Nobel 1978 1903 Birthday George E. Stone, Lodz Poland, actor, Viva Villa, Last Mile 1902 Event Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland 1902 Birthday Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor, Her Wonderful Lie 1901 Birthday John Bleifer, born in Zawiercie, Poland, actor, Highway to Heaven 1901 Birthday Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer 1900 Birthday Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower 1928 Olympics gold 1900 Birthday Leo Smit, born in Amsterdam, Holland, composer, killed in Poland during the Holocaust 1899 Birthday Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo 1898 Birthday Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 1897 Birthday Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer, Dyptique 1896 Birthday Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland 1895 Birthday Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor, Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936 - 1941 1893 Event Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland 1892 Birthday Artur Rodzinski, Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor/composer 1891 Birthday Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, president-in-exile, 1979 - 1986 1891 Birthday Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet, Noise of Time 1890 Birthday Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte' 1886 Birthday David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel, 1948 - 1953, 1955 1886 Birthday Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician and mathematician 1886 Birthday Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist 1885 Birthday Albrecht, von, Kesselring, German Field Marshal, Poland/Netherland 1885 Birthday Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland, 1939-40 1884 Birthday Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer, Daniel Jazz 1883 Birthday Alfred Korzybski, born in Poland, scientist, Science and Sanity 1883 Event Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430 1881 Birthday Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general 1881 Birthday Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer, Kirov is With Us 1880 Birthday Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities 1880 Birthday Shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer, Motke Ganev 1877 Birthday Wanda A. Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist, Musique Ancienne 1874 Birthday Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, Prime Minister of Poland, 1920 - 1921, 1923, 1926 1873 Birthday Waclaw Rawicz, Berent, Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer 1868 Birthday Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist, Chiopi, Nobel-1924 1867 Death Ira F Aldridge, U.S. actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63 1865 Birthday Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet, Young Poland 1863 Event General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1863 Event January-uprising begins in Poland 1861 Event Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland 1860 Birthday Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland, 1919-20 1860 Birthday Ignace Jan Paderewski, Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot 1859 Birthday Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist, Esperanto 1857 Birthday Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness 1846 Birthday Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905 1840 Birthday Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress, Juliet, anti-Russian 1835 Birthday Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist and composer, Souv de Moscou 1815 Event Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic 1810 Birthday Frederic Chopin, born in Poland, composer/pianist, Concert in F Minor 1798 Birthday Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz 1795 Event 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1794 Event Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland 1793 Event 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia and Russia 1793 Event Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) 1792 Event Russian army enters Poland 1785 Event Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland 1775 Event Poland and Prussia sign trade agreement 1775 Event Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland 1775 Event Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland 1772 Event 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia 1766 Death Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies 1763 Death August III, king of Poland, dies at 66 1736 Event Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland 1733 Death August II, the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62 1732 Birthday Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland, 1764-95 1704 Event Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland 1699 Event Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden 1699 Event Venice, Poland and Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey 1696 Birthday August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen 1696 Death Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 72 1696 Death Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies 1686 Death Mathias Rauchmuller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies 1684 Event Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz 1683 Event Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey 1676 Event Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw 1674 Event General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland 1673 Death Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies 1673 Death Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies 1672 Death John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 1672 Death Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 1672 Event Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz 1670 Birthday August II, the Strong One, King of Poland, 355 children 1668 Event King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France 1667 Death Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) 1667 Event Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty 1667 Event Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty 1667 Event Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia 1667 Event Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo 1660 Event Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva 1657 Event Brandenburg and Poland sign unity of Bromberg 1657 Event Brandenburg and Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau 1656 Event Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden 1656 Event Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant 1656 Event Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant 1654 Event Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland 1648 Death Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies 1635 Event Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf 1634 Event Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov 1632 Death Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65 1629 Event Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark 1624 Birthday Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland, 1674-96 1621 Event Turkey and Poland signs Peace of Chotin 1620 Event Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland 1618 Event Russia and Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino 1609 Birthday John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland, 1648-68 1609 Birthday Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland, 1648-68 1595 Birthday Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland, 1632-48 1589 Death Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 1587 Event Sigismund III becomes king of Poland 1582 Event Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic 1575 Event Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland 1574 Event Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland 1572 Death Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51 1572 Death August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42 1569 Event Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland 1566 Birthday Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden 1561 Event Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland 1551 Birthday Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France, 1573 - 1589 1548 Death Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 1543 Death Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland 1541 Event Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu 1520 Birthday Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1548-72 1515 Event Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire 1501 Death Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies 1492 Death Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64 1473 Birthday Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Poland, astronomer, heliocentrism 1467 Birthday Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland 1444 Death Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20 1434 Death Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies 1427 Birthday Kazimierz IV, king of Poland, 1447-92 1424 Birthday Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary 1410 Event Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland 1404 Event Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland 1382 Death Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies 1370 Death Kazimierz III, the Great, king of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61 1342 Death John I, ruler of Poland, dies 1333 Death Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies 1326 Birthday Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary, 1342-82, Poland, 1370-82 1320 Event Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland 1309 Birthday Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland, 1333-70 1271 Birthday Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia and Poland, 1278-1305 1202 Death Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies 1194 Death Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies 1138 Death Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, scheefmond, duke of Poland, dies 1058 Death Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies 1034 Death Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies 1025 Death Boleslaw I Chobry, the brave, duke/king of Poland, dies
