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Historical Timeline for Czech Republic - A chronology of key events
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Czech Republic Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
5th-6th centuries arrival of the Slavs on Czech territory.
623-658 Samo Empire, first state form on Czech territory.
830 creation of the Great Moravian Empire.
863 Ratislav, ruler of Moravia, invites Cyril and Methodist to evangelize the country: the Bible is translated into Slavonic and the Glagolitic alphabet is thus created, helping to bring the empire into the Slavic world and to free it from the world germain.
867-894 Bořivoj, of the Přemyslid dynasty, was the first Christian prince of Bohemia.
931-935 reign of Duke Václav (Wenceslas). He will become Saint Wenceslas, patron of Bohemia.
1085 the Duchy of Bohemia becomes a kingdom. Vratislav is the first king of Bohemia.
1241 invasion of the Tatars in Moravia and Slovakia.
1306 assassination of Václav III and end of the Přemyslid dynasty.
1310-1437 arrival of the Luxembourg dynasty on the Bohemian throne.
1346-1378 reign of Charles IV.
1415 Jan Hus is burnt alive.
1419-1437 the Hussite wars.
1459-1471 reign of Jiříz Poděbrad (George of Podébrady), the Hussite king.
1471-1526 reign of the Jagiellonian dynasty, of Polish origin.
1526 the Habsburg dynasty on the Bohemian throne.
1583 Rudolph II, Germanic emperor and third Habsburg king of Bohemia, leaves Vienna and sets up his court in Prague.
1618 defenestration of Prague, revolt against the Habsburgs.
1618-1648 the Thirty Years' War.
1620 Battle of the White Mountain.
1621 execution of the 27 organizers of the revolt and start of the forced "recatholization".
1648 Westphalian peace treaty, which closes the Thirty Years' War. This bloody war affected Austria, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Originally a war between Protestants and Catholics, it quickly became a struggle for Germany to keep its supremacy.
1740-1780 reign of Marie-Thérèse.
1780-1790 reign of Joseph II.
1781 start of the national awakening.
1848 revolutionary national movement. The Czechs and Slovaks are asking for their autonomy.
1918 Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia, separated since the 10th century, are united in a republic. Czechoslovakia is proclaimed on October 28, and Tomaš Masaryk becomes its first president on November 14.
1919 founding of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
1935 Edouard Beneš is elected president.
1938 Munich agreement on the partition of Czechoslovakia.
1939 occupation of Bohemia-Moravia by Germany. Slovakia becomes a fascist state.
1942 Lidice massacre.
1944 Slovak national uprising.
1945 liberation-occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army.
1948 the communists take power. Gottwald becomes president.
1952 start of the Prague trials.
1953 death of Gottwald. Antonín Zápotocký is elected president.
1968 Alexander Dubček is elected First Secretary of the Communist Party. An essay on "socialism with a human face".
1968 the USSR sends the tanks of the Warsaw Pact, whose troops invade Czechoslovakia.
1969 Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in protest against the Soviet invasion. Beginning of normalization led by Gustáv Husák, first secretary of the Communist Party. Czechoslovakia becomes a federation.
1975 Gustáv Husák is elected president.
1977 creation of Charter 77 by a handful of dissidents.
1989 velvet revolution in November. Creation of the Civic Forum.
1990 parliamentary elections on June 8, first free elections since 1948.
1991 the last Soviet soldiers leave Czechoslovakia on June 19.
1992 legislative elections. The winner is the ODS led by Václav Klaus in the Czech Republic. In Slovakia, HZDS with Vladimir Mečiar.
1992 the two Prime Ministers Klaus and Mečiar reach an agreement on the partition of the country.
1992 Václav Havel resigns on July 17, the very day of the proclamation of Slovak sovereignty. On December 31, the Czechs and Slovaks separate.
1993 Václav Havel is re-elected President of the Czech Republic.
1995 the Czech Republic is the first of the former communist countries to join the OECD.
1996 the Czech Republic files an application for admission to the European Union.
1997 numerous financial scandals agitate the Republic. Significant devaluation of the crown.
1998 Václav Havel is re-elected President of the Czech Republic with a very narrow majority.
1999 the Czech Republic becomes a member of the O.T.A.N. with Hungary and Poland, and sends troops to Kosovo.
2000 comeback of the Communists. Prague is named European City of Culture by the European Union, along with 8 other cities. The score left some bitterness, but also a lot of indifference - "It had to happen" -, and the man in the street is more concerned with his purchasing power in a society in full economic change than with his Slovak neighbor ... Havel will have known u the state of grace until the elections of June 1992 when the O.D.S., an ultraliberal right-wing party, won the elections brilliantly. From then on, he will have to come to terms with Václav Klaus, head of the O.D.S., and give up the Czechoslovak Federation.
2002 in August, floods in the Czech Republic, due, among other things, to the floods of the Elbe, the Vltava and the Berounka, caused the evacuation of more than 200,000 people and many towns fell entirely under the waters.
2003 in February, election of Václav Klaus as President of the Republic. In June, referendum for entry into Europe. The yes wins with more than 77% of the votes cast.
2004 on May 1, the Czech Republic officially joins the European Union.
2004-2005 the country is shaken by numerous political crises.
2005 Jiři Paroubek, leader of the socialist party C.S.S.D., becomes the new Czech Prime Minister following a political scandal and thus replaces Stanislas Gross.
2006 Jiři Paroubek resigns following his party's defeat in the legislative elections. He is replaced by Mirek Topolanek, of the right-wing O.D.S. In October, 38 days after his official installation, Mirek Topolanek resigned, having been unable to obtain the confidence of the deputies.
2007 after long negotiations, the party of Mirek Topolanek (O.D.S.), the liberals and the greens form a government which however only has 100 of the 200 seats in parliament.
2008 the outgoing president Václav Klaus is re-elected.
2009 the Czech Republic takes over from France the presidency of the European Union in January. In March, fall of the government of Mirek Topolanek and the start of a transitional period with the government of Jan Fischer.
2010 in May, the center-right coalition wins the legislative elections although the numerically winning party is the Social Democrat ČSSD with 22.1% of the vote. In July, O.D.S. and two new parties from the political scene (TOP 09 and Public Affairs) form the new center-right government. Petr Nečas is the new Prime Minister (O.D.S.).
2011 VáclavHavel dies on December 18. After a 3-day national mourning, the farewell ceremony takes place in St. Vitus Cathedral, in the heart of Prague Castle.
2012 a major mobilization took place in the streets of Prague on April 21, to protest against the austerity introduced by the government. Several tens of thousands of people gathered for what constitutes the biggest demonstration of the post-1989 period. The unrest continues in May and June, especially with the demonstration of seniors in Prague. Their standard of living has fallen by 20% since 1989 and their monthly income is 30% lower than the European average. The Parliament and the Senate adopt the law on the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The Czechs will then designate their president for the first time on January 11 and 12, 2013; the second round will take place on January 25 and 26, 2013.
2013 the Czechs will nominate their president for the first time by universal suffrage at the end of January 2013. The president of the Civil Rights Party, Miloš Zeman, wins and becomes the new tenant of Prague Castle.
2013 in February, the scandal of photovoltaic subsidies, the prices of which have been overestimated and of which the Czech taxpayer will pay the price, contributes to further widening the gap between the population and the political class.
2013 in May, the mayor of Prague, Bohuslav Svoboda, resigns following a motion of censure.
2013 in June, after having been without anybody at the head of the municipality for a month, Prague elects its new mayor in the person of Tomáš Hudeček, from the conservative TOP 09 party. It is the first time since independence that the mayor of Prague is not from the ODS (Democratic Civic Party).
2013 in August, new government crisis. The assembly is dissolved and early legislative elections are scheduled for October. They enshrine the victory of the right and the defeat of the traditional parties.
2014 in January, the new government of Bohuslav Sobotka is established. He is the head of the ČSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party).
2014 in May, the population votes in the European elections. The liberal ANO 2011 party comes out on top, but narrowly.
2016 in October, the senatorial elections take place, and the renewal of a third of the Senate is successful.
2017 the legislative elections in October prove once again that ANO 2011 is the people's party. With almost 30% of the vote, the party retains 78 seats.
2018 the January presidential elections end with the re-election of Miloš Zeman with nearly 52% of the vote.
2018 on October 28, the country celebrated the centenary of the independence of Czechoslovakia.

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