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Czech history in dates
Stone Age: first settlement
5-6th century: Arrival of Slavonic tribes
623: Empire of merchant Samo
830: Establishment of Grand Moravia, first state unit on Czech territory
863: Christian mission of St. Cyril and Metod from Byzantium
907: Disappearance of Grand Moravia
around 885: Removing of Bohemian princes from Levý Hradec to Prague, foundation of the castle, the rule of the first BohemianCzech dynasty
929: Prince Wenceslas assassineted
1085: Coronation of the first Bohemian king Vratislav II
13th century: German colonization, foundation of new royal towns, social and cultural development
1300: Reform of monetary system
1306: Last heir of the Bohemian throne assassinated – extinction of Přemysl dynasty
1310-1346: John of Luxembourg rules as the king of Bohemia
1346-1378: Czech king and emperor of Holy Roman Empire Charles IV.´epoch
1380: Grand epidemics of pest
1415: John Hus burnt in Constance
1419-1437: Attemps of the clergy to reform the Church, beginning of Hussites Wars
1458: John of Poděbrady elected Bohemian King
1526: Habsburg dynasty ascends the Bohemian throne
1618-1620: Defeat of the Czech nobles´ uprising. Czech language and Czech national consciousness begin to decline. Beginning of the Thirty Years War
1680: Grand uprising of farmers
1741-1748: Austrian wars
1784-1848: Period of Czech national revival, beginning of the industrial revolution
1867: Establishment of Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918: Proclamation of the independence of Czechoslovakia, Prague becomes the capital of the new republic and residence of the first president
1939: According to the Munich Agreement Czechoslavakia lost about one third of its territory
1939-1945: Occupation by Nazi Germany
1945: Liberation of Czechoslavakia
1948: Communist putsch
1968: Prague Spring – an attempt to reform socialism. Intervention of Warsaw Pact´armies
1989: Velvet Revolution, beginning of the new democratic period, V. Havel becomes President of Czechoslavakia
1990: First free parliamentary elections
1993: Czechoslovakia splits in two parts, the Czech Republic is established
1999: Czech Republic joins NATO
2004: Czech Republic joins the European Union
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