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'''623-658''' The first Slavic state was established – “Empire of Samo”<br>'''833''' The beginning of the Great Moravian Empire<br>'''863''' The arrival of Slavic missionaries Constantine (later known as Cyril) and Methodius<br>'''907''' Destruction of the Great Moravian Empire by Magyars<br>'''962''' Holy Roman Empire established<br>'''1085''' Vratislav II was granted the royal crown and become the first Czech king starting the Premyslid dynasty<br>'''1212''' Bohemia proclaimed a permanent kingdom by pope<br>'''1306''' The Premyslid dynasty ends with the death of King Wenceslas III<br>'''1348''' Charles IV founded the Charles University<br>'''1414''' John Huss (Jan Hus) spoke against the corruption of the Catholic Church and conducted his sermons in Czech so it could be understood by ordinary people<br>'''1415''' John Huss (Jan Hus) burnt at the stake<br>'''1420 to 1434''' The Hussite Wars<br>'''1458''' The Hussites elected a Czech Protestant, George of Podebrady as the country's new king<br>'''1563''' The Council of Trent, Roman Catholic parishes required to keep christening and marriage church registers<br>'''1614''' The Ritual Romanorum, Roman Catholic parishes required to keep death church registers<br>'''1608-1618:''' Protestant German State of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Union Protestant Union]<br>'''1618''' Beginning of the Thirty Years War<br>'''1620''' White Mountain Battle<br>'''1645''' The Treaty of Linz, recognition of four religions: Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Unitarianism<br>'''1730''' Catholic priests ordered to record non-Catholics in their church registers<br>'''1771''' New standardized format for the church records introduced<br>'''1781''' The Toleration Patent, recognition of Protestantism and Judaism, religious toleration within the Empire<br>'''1784''' Church registers declared valid public records and the keeping of birth, marriage and death records standardized (columns with headings). The Catholic parishes made responsible for recording birth, marriage and death records for people of all religions<br>'''1787''' Protestants authorized to keep their own registers independent of Catholic control<br>'''1788''' Jews required to keep their own registers under the Catholic supervision<br>'''1805''' Battle of Slavkov<br>'''1815''' Treaty of Vienna<br>'''1820s''' Industrial revolution begins in Bohemia<br>'''1840''' Jews required by law to keep birth, marriage and death records<br>'''1848''' Feudal system abolished<br>'''1862''' Sokol movement found<br>'''1866''' Cholera epidemic in Bohemia<br>'''1867''' Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire<br>'''1918''' Creation of the Republic of Czechoslovakia<br>'''1921''' Civil registration required by law, church registers no longer valid public records<br>'''1945''' Czechoslovakia loses Sub-Carpathian Russia to Soviet Union<br>'''1950''' Consolidation of all records of genealogical value by the government<br>'''1952''' Centralization of all these records into state regional archives<br>'''1993''' Czechoslovakia dissolved; Czech and Slovak Republics become two separate, independent states<br>  

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