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The indigenous population of
Poland 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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900's |
The Polania tribe became
dominant |
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966 |
Duke Mieszko I became Poland's
first recorded Christian leader
966 - 1370 The Piast Polish Dynasty
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1382 |
1382 - 1572 The Jagiellonian
Dynasty |
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1572 |
1572 - 1795 The Royal Republic |
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1700s |
The Three Partitions of Poland
- Russia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland amongst
themselves
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1914 |
1914-18 World War I - Poles
were forced into the Russian, German, and Austrian
armies and forced to fight each other
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1918 |
11 November - Poland
becomes independent |
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1932 |
Poland concludes
non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. |
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1934 |
Poland signs 10-year
non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany |
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1939 - |
23 August Germany and the
Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact and threaten
Poland
1st September Germany invades Poland
17th September Soviet Union invades eastern Poland
1939 - 1945 World War II
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1944 |
The Warsaw Uprising - Poland
comes under Soviet control |
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1947 |
Poland becomes a Communist
People's Republic |
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1978 |
Karol Wojtyla, Cardinal of
Krakow, elected Pope. |
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1980 |
Strike leader Lech Walesa is
elected as the head of Solidarity |
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1981 |
Martial law imposed. Many of
Solidarity's leaders, including Walesa, are
imprisoned
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1983 |
Martial law lifted.
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1990 |
Walesa elected president of
Poland. |
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1995 |
Aleksander Kwasniewski, a
former Communist, narrowly beats Lech Walesa to
become president. |
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2004 |
May - Poland is one of 10 new
states to join the EU. |
