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History
| 3rd - 2nd | century BC A Celtic tribe, the Boii, settles in the region (Boiohaemum = home of the Boii) |
| 5th - 6th century AD | Arrivals of Slav tribes |
| 1st half of 7th century | Samos´s Empire |
| 833 - 906/7 | Greater Moravian Empire |
| 874 - 891 | Reign of Prince Borivoj 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) |
| 25.09.1212 | Sicilian Golden Bull confirms the inheritability of the crown for Bohemian sovereigns |
| 1253 - 1278 | Reign of King Przemysl Otakar II, Bohemia becomes a European power |
| 26.08. 1278 | Battle of Marchfeld, death of Przemysl Otakar II |
| 04.08. 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´ Cathedral |
| 26.08. 1346 | Battle of Crécy, death of King John of Luxembourg |
| 1346 - 1378 | Reign of emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg |
| 07.04. 1348 | Foundation of Charles University in Prague |
| 06.07.1415 | Jan Hus (John Huss) burnt at the stake in Constance |
| 30.07. 1419 | First Defenestration of Prague: start of the Hussite Revolution |
| 1471 -1526 | Reign of the House of Jagiellonian |
| 29.08.1526 | 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 Jagiellonian |
| 08.11. 1620 | Battle of White Mountain, defeat of the uprising of the Bohemian estates against king Ferdinand II |
| 21.06. 1621 | 27 Czech lords, members of the Bohemian uprising, are executed |
| 1740 - 1780 | Reign of Maria Theresa |
| 1780 - 1790 | Josef II is king of Bohemia |
| 02.12. 1805 | Battle of the Three Emperors at Austerlitz |
| 1848 - 1916 | Reign of Franz Josef I |
| 18.11. 1883 | Opening of the National 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 rule |
| 1.1.1993 | Establishment of an independent Czech Republic |
| 12.3.1999 | The Czech Republic was admitted to the NATO |
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