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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 II 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 II 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. |
