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Poland
AD 960 - 1795 |
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Duchy of Poland (Piast)
AD 960 - 1025
Records seem to conflict with regard to the
creation of the Polish kingdom. Bloeslaw the Brave and his son are sometimes
held to be mere dukes, with Casimir the Restorer the kingdom's founder,
possibly (uncertainly) in 1038.
(Details by Krzysiek Popończyk.) |
960 - 992 |
Mjeczislas / Mieszko I Piast |
Duke of Poland.
Dynasty founder. |
992 - 1025 |
Bloeslaw I the Brave |
Son. Succeeded 25 May. |
1000 |
On 7 to 15 March the Congress Of Gniezno (the contemporary capital of
Poland) is held. The German Emperor Otto
III establishes an archbishopric in Gniezno with three new bishoprics in
Cracow for Little Poland, Wroclaw for Silesia, and Kolobrzeg for Pomerania,
plus the reaffirmation of the old bishopric in Poznan. |
1002 |
Upon Otto III's death,
Bloeslaw takes over Lusatia and the March of Meissen, border territory
between Poland and
Thuringia. |
1003 - 1004 |
Bloeslaw becomes duke of Bohemia
(although this conflicts with the Bohemian list of rulers). The title brings
with it Moravia and Slovakia. |
1018 |
A peace treaty is signed in Budziszyn with emperor Heinrich II (Henry II the
Saint) - ratifying Poland's control over Lusatia and Meissen. In the same
year, Germany and Hungary
support an expedition against Russia.
Boleslaw defeats Kiev and takes over 'Grody
Czerwieńskie'. |
1025 |
Boleslaw I the Great is crowned on 18 April in Gniezno (with the Pope's
blessing), and Poland is elevated to a kingdom. |
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Kingdom of Poland (Piast)
AD 1025 - 1370
Pope John XIX condoned the raising of the duchy to a kingdom. |
1025 |
Bloeslaw I the Brave |
Died on 17 June,
just two months after his coronation. |
1025 - 1034 |
Mieszko II |
Son. Crowned on 25 December. |
1034 - 1038 |
Interregnum?
The kingdom appears to be relegated to a duchy again. |
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Duchy of Poland (Piast)
AD 1038? - 1058 |
1038 - 1058 |
Kazimierz I / Casimir
I the Restorer |
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Kingdom of Poland (Piast)
AD 1058 - 1370
The kingdom is restored. |
1058 - 1079 |
Boleslaw II the 700 |
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1079 - 1102 |
Wladyslaw I Herman |
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1102 - 1138 |
Boleslaw III Wrywouth |
Son of Wladyslaw & Judith of
Bohemia. |
1138 - 1146 |
Wladyslaw II the Exile |
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1146 - 1173 |
Boleslaw IV the Curly |
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1173 - 1177 |
Mieszko III the Old |
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1177 - 1194 |
Kazimierz II the Just |
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1194 - 1202 |
Mieszko III the Old |
Restored. |
1202 - 1227 |
Leszek I the White |
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1228 - 1231 |
Wladyslaw III Spindleskanks |
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1231 - 1238 |
Henryk I the Bearded of Silesia |
Non-dynastic. |
1238 - 1241 |
Henryk II the Pious |
Non-dynastic. |
1241 - 1243 |
Konrad I Mazowiecki |
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1243 - 1279 |
Boleslaw V the Chaste |
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1279 - 1288 |
Leszek II the Black |
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1288 - 1290 |
Henryk IV Probus |
Non-dynastic. |
1290 - 1296 |
Przemyslaw |
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1296 - 1300 |
Interregnum (reason unknown). |
1300 - 1305 |
Waclaw II |
Wenceslas II of
Bohemia (1278-1305). |
1305 - 1306 |
Waclaw III |
Wenceslas III of
Bohemia (1305-1306). |
1306 - 1333 |
Wladyslaw IV the Short |
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1333 - 1370 |
Kasimierz / Casimir
III the Great |
The last Piast.
Poland is unified as Poland & Hungary. |
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Kingdom of Poland & Hungary
AD 1370 - 1386 |
1370 - 1382 |
Louis / Ludwik I the
Great |
King of
Hungary (1342-1382). |
1382 - 1383 |
Interregnum. |
1383 - 1386 |
Jadwiga of Anjou |
Married Wladyslaw V
Jagiello. |
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Kingdom of Poland (Jagiellan)
AD 1386 - 1569 |
1386 - 1434 |
Wladyslaw V Jagiello |
Grand duke of
Lithuania. Founder of Jagiellan Dynasty. |
1386 - 1399 |
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Jadwiga of Anjou |
Ruled kingdom jointly from 1386. |
1410 |
Teutonic Knights of
East Prussia defeated at Tannenberg. |
1434 - 1444 |
Vlaidslav I Jagiello |
Wladyslav VI of
Hungary (1440-1444). |
1444 - 1447 |
Interregnum. |
1446 |
Grand Duke Casimir of
Lithuania
gains the throne of Poland as Casimir IV, king of Poland,
as well as retaining command of the grand duchy. |
1446 - 1492 |
Kazimierz / Casimir
IV |
Grand duke of
Lithuania (1440-1492). |
1492 - 1501 |
John I Albert |
Also grand duke of
Lithuania. |
1501 - 1506 |
Alexander |
Also grand duke of
Lithuania. |
1506 - 1548 |
Sigismund I |
Also grand duke of
Lithuania. |
1548 - 1569 |
Sigismund II Augustus |
Also grand duke of
Lithuania. |
1569 |
The union of Poland & Lithuania,
already existing in fact if not name for over a century, is formalised.
Sigismund becomes king of Poland &
Lithuania. |
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Kingdom of Poland & Lithuania
AD 1569 - 1795
The Union of Poland &
Lithuania,
Ruthenia and Samogitia, was enacted, establishing the
Commonwealth of Poland. Sigismund became king of a united Poland &
Lithuania. |
1569 - 1572 |
Sigismund II Augustus |
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1572 - 1576 |
The kingdom occupies the Principality of
Transylvania. |
1573 - 1574 |
Henry of Valois |
Non-dynastic.
King of France (1574-1589).
Leaves Poland. |
1575 - 1586 |
Stephen Bathory |
Non-dynastic. |
1587 - 1632 |
Sigismund III Vasa |
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1629 |
The kingdom hands over its southern
Estonian territories to
Sweden. |
1632 - 1648 |
Wladyslaw VII |
Czar of
Russia (1610-1612). |
1648 - 1668 |
John II Casimir |
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1669 - 1673 |
Michael Wisniowiecki |
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1674 - 1696 |
John III Sobieski |
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1697 - 1706 |
Augustus II the Strong |
Frederick Augustus I of
Saxony. |
1704 - 1709 |
Stanislas Lesczynski |
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1709 - 1733 |
Augustus II the Strong |
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1733 |
Stanislas Lesczynski |
Became duke of
Lorraine (1737-1763). |
1733 - 1735 |
The Polish War of
Succession erupts in which Stanislas Lesczynski is supported by his
son-in-law, Louis XV of
France. |
1733 - 1763 |
Augustus III |
Frederick Augustus II of
Saxony. Son of Augustus II. |
1764 - 1795 |
Stanislas August Poniatowski |
Last king of Poland. |
1772 |
The First Partition of
Poland & Lithuania sees it divided between
Russia,
Prussia and
Austria. |
1793 |
The Second Partition of
Poland & Lithuania. |
1795 |
 The Third Partition of
Poland & Lithuania removes both states entirely from the map.
Russia grabs almost
all of
Belarus. |
1806 |
Napoleon I of
France
liberates
Prussia's Polish territory and forms an Imperial satellite state.
It is directly administered as part of the kingdom of
Saxony. |
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Grand Duchy of Warsaw
AD 1806 - 1814 |
1806 - 1814 |
Frederick Augustus III |
King of
Saxony (1763-1827). |
1814 - 1918 |
Poland
is re-divided and is non-existent as a separate state. |
1918 |
Poland
is recreated as
an independent republic by the victors of the Great War. |
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1919 - 1921 |
The Russo-Polish War results in the partitioning of Belarus between the
Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Poland. |
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1943 |
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ignites after
German soldiers
begin the 'liquidation' of the Jewish ghetto. |
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1991 |
Lithuania and Belarus
finally regain independence with the fall of the Soviet Union. |
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