960 Mieszko I becomes ruler in Poland
966 Mieszko I, first duke of Poland, baptised a Christian
968 Foundation of first Polish bishopric in Poznan. Jordan became the first bishop.
1018 Peace of Bautzen between Poland and Germany.
1025 Boleslaw I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland.
1031 Bezprym seizes the throne of Poland from Mieszko II
1039 Bretislav I invades Poland
1058 Boleslaus II takes office as duke of Poland.
1076 Coronation of Polish King Boleslaw II the Bold (Polish: ''Boleslaw Smialy'') in Gniezno
1079 Ladislaus Herman succeeds Boleslaus II in Poland.
1106 Boleslaus III of Poland begins a war against his brother Zbigniew for control of Poland.
1177 Casimir II becomes duke of Poland.
1182 First Sejm, or Polish Parliament, convenes at Łęczyca.
1237 Elblag, Poland is founded.
1241 Mongols of Golden Horde under the command of Subotai defeat feudal Polish nobility, including Knights Templar, in the battle of Liegnitz.
1242 The diocese of Warmia, Poland is created.
1252 The Polish land of Lebus is incorporated into German state of Brandenburg, marking the start of Brandenburg's expansion into previously Polish areas (Neumark).
1259 Nogai Khan leads the second Mongol Golden Horde attack against Poland.
1285 Archbishop Jakub Świnka orders all priests subject to his bishopry in Poland to deliver sermons in Polish rather than German, thus further unifying the Catholic Church in Poland and fostering a national identity.
1287 Third mongol Golden Horde attack against Poland
1300 Wenceslas II of Bohemia becomes King of Poland.
1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
1329 Construction begins on the cathedral of Frombork, Poland.
1335 Charles I of Hungary allies with Poland against the Habsburgs and Bohemians
1349 Black Death outbreak in Elbing (modern-day Elblag in Poland).
1370 Beginning of the rule of Poland by Capet-Anjou family.
1385 The Union of Krewo established the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania through the marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Prince Jagiello of Lithuania and saw the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite.
1386 End of rules by members of the Capet-Anjou family in Poland. Jogaila unites Lithuania and Poland.
1411 February 11 : Peace of Torun 1411 signed in Torun, Poland
1439 Battle of Grotnik, which ended the hussite movement in Poland
1454 In the battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during Thirteen Years' War.
1466 The Thirteen Years' War ended with the Second Treaty of Torun. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole was incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights were allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
1504 Moldavia, Stephen III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland.
1514 Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarusians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as Queen of Poland.
1569 Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin. They form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1574 On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
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1582 October 4 of Julian calendar (Thursday) - Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain make the next day Friday, October 15 of the Gregorian Calendar, skipping over 10 days. Other countries follow at various later dates.
1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
1587 Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund III Vasa as their king
1596 King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital of Poland from rak
1609 Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland
1610 Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
1618 The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit Ducal Prussia.
1627 The aurochs are hunted to extinction, the last being killed by poachers in Poland.
1632 King Ladislaus IV of Poland forbids Anti-Semitic books and printings.
1644 Kolumna Zygmunta (Sigismund's Column) erected in Warsaw to commemorate King Sigismund III Vasa, who moved the capital of Poland from rak
1651 June 30: The biggest battle of the 17th century, Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles and Ukrainians, won by Poles.
1654 The Russian Army seizes Smolensk, and Thirteen Years War starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine
1667 Poland cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) and Poland's status as a Central European power.
1671 Ottoman Empire declares war on Poland
1674 John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.
1683 A 140,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken in at the Battle of Vienna on September 12 with the arrival of a force of 30,000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank. Considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes.
1684 Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule.
1700 The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).
1738 Stanislaw Leszczynski receives Lorraine in exchange for renouncing the Polish throne.
1772 First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria
1791 The Polish Sejm (Parliament) proclaims the Constitution of third May, the first modern codified constitution in Europe.
1792 Russia invades Poland: War in defence of the constitution.
1793 Russia and Prussia partition Poland
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1831 Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
1861 A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops killing five protesters.
1863 The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
1918 November 3
1918 November 14
1919 January 15
1920 Polish-Soviet War: Polish and Anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.
1920 Polish-Soviet War: Polish troops occupy Kyiv. The government of Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
1920 Polish-Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland.
1920 Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.
1922 Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
1922 Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of Poland
1923 First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport
1926 March 15 - Military coup by
1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Hitler and Stalin agree to divide eastern Europe between themselves (Finland, the Baltic states and eastern Poland to the USSR; Western Poland to Germany).
1939 Poland begins mobilization
1939 World War II: Invasion of Poland - Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the Second World War in Europe.
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
1940 World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel. Holocaust: concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau opens in Poland.
1940 Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from arn
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2003 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq.
2004 The largest expansion to date of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
2005 Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert is held in Gdansk, Poland commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of Solidarnosc ("Solidarity" trade union).