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Following the Napoleonic Wars, many sovereigns claimed the title of Polish king, duke or ruler, notably German (the King of Prussia was also the sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1918), Russian (the Congress Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1815 with the widely unrecognized title of King of Poland to the Emperor of Russia until 1915 ...
This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland
Chościsko: Piast the Wheelwright: Siemowit: Lestek: Siemomysł died ca. 950–960: Mieszko I 930–960–992: Judith of Hungary 969–988: Bolesław I Chrobry
Polish United Workers' Party 3 Marian Spychalski (1906–1980) 10 April 1968 23 December 1970 Polish United Workers' Party 4 Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989) 23 December 1970 28 March 1972 Polish United Workers' Party 5 Henryk Jabłoński (1909–2003) 28 March 1972 6 November 1985 Polish United Workers' Party 6 Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014)
The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, communism, and the restoration of democracy.
A success of the Polish–Lithuanian counter-offensive became possible as Batory was able to secure the necessary funding from the nobility. [40] The Polish forces recovered Dünaburg and most of middle Livonia. The King and Zamoyski then opted for attacking directly the inland Russian territory necessary for keeping Russian communication lines ...
Depiction of a royal assembly in the reign of Casimir III, 1333-1370 Wawel Castle in Kraków was the residence of the Polish kings from 1038 until 1598. The next attempt to restore the monarchy and unify the Polish kingdom would occur in 1296, when Przemysł II was crowned as the King of Poland in Gniezno. The coronation did not require papal ...
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [c] and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic, [d] [9] [10] was a federative real union [11] between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795.