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'''1989''' The fall of the Communist regime. Lech Wałęsa was elected president in 1989 in Poland’s first free election. | '''1989''' The fall of the Communist regime. Lech Wałęsa was elected president in 1989 in Poland’s first free election. | ||
966 Mieszko I founds the | |||
Polish nation | |||
11005 Boleslaw the Wry-Mouthed | |||
divides Poland among | |||
his sons | |||
1253 St. Stanislaus the Martyr is | |||
the first Pole to be canonized | |||
1320 Poland reunifies | |||
1333 ill Casimir the Great's | |||
reign begins | |||
1386 ill The Polish-Lithuanian | |||
Union is established | |||
1543 ill polish-born Nicolaus | |||
Copernicus says the earth | |||
revolves around the sun | |||
1596 Poland's capital moves from | |||
Krakow to Warsaw | |||
1655· Swedish invasions | |||
1660 ravage Poland | |||
1772 First Partition of Poland gives | |||
Russia, Austria and Prussia a | |||
third of Poland's territory | |||
1793 ill Poland shrinks again in | |||
Second Partition | |||
1794 Tadeusz Kosciuszko starts | |||
a failed rebellion for Polish | |||
independence | |||
1795 Third Partition erases Poland | |||
from the map for 123 years | |||
1810 Pianist and composer | |||
Frederic Chopin is born in | |||
Zelazowa Wola | |||
1911 Polish scientist Marie | |||
Curie wins the Nobel | |||
Prize for Chemistry | |||
1917 During World War I, 22,000 | |||
polish-Americans join | |||
Haller's Army in France | |||
1918 Poland gains independence | |||
1943 Polish Jews stage the Warsaw | |||
Ghetto Uprising | |||
1974 ill polish-American Bobby | |||
Vinton's "My Melody of | |||
Love" tops pop music charts | |||
1978 Karol Wojtyla, the archbishop | |||
of Krakow, becomes Pope | |||
John Paul II | |||
1990 Poles elect "Solidarity" leader | |||
Lech Walesa president | |||
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Topolski, Jerzy. ''An Outline History of Poland.'' Warszawa: Interpress Publishers, 1986. (FHL book 943.8 H2tj.) | Topolski, Jerzy. ''An Outline History of Poland.'' Warszawa: Interpress Publishers, 1986. (FHL book 943.8 H2tj.) | ||
Wandycz, Piotr S. ''The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795–1918.'' Vol. 7 in series: ''A History of East Central Europe''. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1974. (FHL book 940 H2ho.) Includes maps. | Wandycz, Piotr S. ''The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795–1918.'' Vol. 7 in series: ''A History of East Central Europe''. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1974. (FHL book 940 H2ho.) Includes maps. | ||
== Local Histories == | == Local Histories == | ||