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| | | The indigenous population of Czechoslovakia were the Slavic tribes: - 'West Slavs' tribes were the Poles, the Czechs and the Slovaks - 'East Slavs' tribes consisted of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusian's - 'South Slavs' tribes consisted of Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians Serbs and Slovenians | |
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| | 15 BC | The Romans began to extend their empire | |
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| | 0 | The birth of Jesus Christ | |
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| | 33 | Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the Roman province of Jerusalem and the origin of Christianity | |
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| | 476 | The Roman Empire collapsed | |
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| | 550 | Slavs begin settling in eastern Alps | |
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| | 700's | The rule of Charlemagne who was the King of the Franks | |
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| | 750 | 750-800 The spread of Christianity in the Slovene lands | |
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| | 830 | Moravian Empire was established | |
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| | 907 | Moravian Empire collapsed with the invasion from Hungary | |
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| | 962 | The Holy Roman Empire established | |
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| | 1085 | Vratislav II became the first Czech king starting the Premyslid dynasty | |
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| | 1306 | Premyslid dynasty ends with the death of King Wenceslas III | |
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| | 1414 | Jan Hus spoke against the corruption of the Catholic Church and conducted his sermons in Czech so it could be understood by ordinary people | |
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| | 1415 | Jan Hus burnt at the stake | |
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| | 1420 | 1420 to 1434: The Hussite Wars | |
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| | 1458 | The Hussites elected a Czech Protestant, George of Podebrady, as the new king | |
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| | 1526 | 1526 - 1790: The Hapsburg Dynasty | |
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| | 1740 | 1740-1780: The duke of Bavaria, Charles Albert, proclaimed king by Czech nobility but Maria Theresa (1717-17800) daughter of Holy Roman Emperor rules the Hapsburg lands | |
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| | 1764 | 1764-1790 KingJoseph II's reign. 1760s was the period of Slovene Enlightenment. The provinces of the Czech and Austrian territories were subdivided into administrative districts and German became the official language | |
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| | 1769 | Late 1700s-1815 The Napoleonic Wars lead by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) | |
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| | 1809 | 1809-1813: Illyrian Provinces established by Napoleon Bonaparte which included Slovene lands | |
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| | 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated | |
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| | 1848 | Czechs convened the first Slavic Congress to discuss the possibility of political consolidation of Austrian Slavs, including Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs | |
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| | 1914 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated starting World War I | |
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| | 1918 | 3 November: World War I ended | |
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| | 1918 | 12 November: The last Habsburg Emperor was overthrown | |
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| | 1918 | October 28: The fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I and the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia | |
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| | 1938 | September: Germany, Britain, France and Italy sign the Munich Pact, giving Adolf Hitler the right to invade and claim Czechoslovakia's border areas | |
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| | 1939 | March 15: Czechoslovakia invaded by Adolf Hitler's army | |
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| | 1939 | September: World War 2 starts | |
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| | 1945 | August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending WW2 | |
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| | 1942 | Slovene Covenant established | |
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| | 1945 | May 5: Prague Uprising and the territories of the Czech Republic liberated | |
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| | 1945 | August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and World War 2 ends | |
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| | 1945 | 1945 - 1989 The Communist Era | |
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| | 1980's | Russian perestroika was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev marking the last years of communism in Czechoslovakia | |
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| | 1968 | August 21: Five Warsaw Pact member countries invade Czechoslovakia and Soviet troops continue to occupy the country until 1989 | |
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| | 1989 | November: The Velvet Revolution brought an end to communism | |
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| | 1993 | January 1 Czechoslovakia peacefully splits into two independent countries - the Czech Republic and Slovakia. | |
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