721 Legendary founding of Prague by the Princess ibu
1118 Zbraslav, now part of Prague, is founded.
1270 Construction of the Old New Synagogue in Prague is completed.
1348 Charles University is founded in Prague.
1357 Charles Bridge in Prague is founded
1419 1st defenestration of Prague
1602 In Prague, Florian Mathias performs the first successful bowel surgery - removes a dagger from stomach
1616 Collegium Musicum founded in Prague
1620 The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1621 an execution of 27 Czech lords on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the battle on the "White Mountain".
1631 A Saxon army take over Prague.
1648 The west bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) occupied and looted by Swedish armies.
1741 Prague occupied by French-Bavarian armies
1744 Prague occupied by Prussian armies
1941 World War II: starts the Operation Anthropoid (the assassination of Heydrich in Prague).
1942 World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
1945 World War II: Prague uprising against the Nazis.
1948 Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk killed in fall from a window of his apartment in Prague. Later communist government rules it "suicide".
1969 Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Three days later he dies.
1989 Cold War: TheVelvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by riot poli This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution - The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1992 Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague.
2000 Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2002 NATO Summit in Prague: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are invited to join NATO.
2003 At the International Olympic Committee session in Prague, Vancouver, British Columbia is declared the Host City for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.
2004 Team of Canada wins the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague.
2004 A bomb attack occurs in front of Prague's Casino Royal.