sumario histórico
3rd - 2nd century BC - A Celtic tribe, the Boil, settles in the region ( Boiohaemum = home of the Boii )
5th-6th century AD - ArrivaI of Slavonic tribes
1st half of 7th century - Sámo's Empire
833-906/7 - Greater Moravian Empire
874-891 - Reign of Prince Bořivoj I, the first known Przemyslid ruler
935 - Prince Wenceslas murdered; declared the country's patron saint later in the 10th century
1061-1092 - Reign of Prince Vratislav II ( becomes the first king of Bohemia in 1085 )
25.9.1212 - Sicilian Golden BuIl confirms the inheritability of the crown for Bohemian sovereigns
1253-1278 - Reign of King Przemysl Otakar II; Bohemia becomes a European power
26.8.1278 - Battle of Marchfeld, death ofPrzemysl Otakar II
4.8.1306 - King Wenceslas III, the last Przemyslid, murdered in Olomouc
1310-1437 - House of Luxembourg reigns in Bohemia
1344 - Prague becomes an archbishopric; commencement of the construction of St. Vitus' CathedraI
26.8.1346 - Battle of Crécy, death of King John of Luxembourg
1346-1378 - Reign of emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg
7.4.1348 - Foundation of Charles University in Prague
6.7.1415 - Jan Hus burnt at the stake in Constance
30.7.1419 - First Defenestration of Prague: start of the Hussite Revolution
1471-1526 - Reign of the House of Jagiellonian
29.8.1526 - Battle of Mohács, death of Ludwig Jagiellonian, king of Bohemia and Hungary
23.10.1526 - Ferdinand I, a Hapsburg, elected king of Bohemia
1526-1918 - Reign of the House of Hapsburg in Bohemia
8.11.1620 - Battle of White Mountain, defeat of the uprising of the Bohemian estates against king Ferdinand II
21.6.1621 - 27 Clech lords, members of the Bohemian uprising, are executed
1740-1780 - Reign of Maria Theresa
1780-1790 - Josef II is king of Bohemia
2.12.1805 - Battle of the Three Emperors at Austerlitz
1848-1916 - Reign of Franz Josef I
18.11.1883 - Opening of the NationaI Theatre in Prague
1914-1918 - First World War
28.10.1918 - Establishment of an independent Czechoslovak Republic
29.9.1938 - Signing of the Treaty of Munich on the hand-over of border areas to Germany
1939-1945 - Second World War
16.3.1939 - Establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; country occupied by Germany
8. 5. 1945 - End of the Second World War in Europe; restoration of the pre-war Czechoslovak Republic
25.2.1948 - Communist take-over
21.8.1968 - Invasion of the country by troops of the Warsaw Pact nations: end of the "Prague Spring"
Nov.-Dec. 1989 - "Velvet Revolution": end of Communist Party role
1.1.1993 - Establishment of an independent Czech Republic
12. 3. 1999 - The Czech Republic was admitted to the NATO







