Czechia

Česko

Places in Czechia

Before the Czech state (400 BC–880)
The Přemyslids (880–1306)
The Luxembourgs (1310–1419)
The Hussite and Jagiellonian age (1419–1526)
The early Habsburgs (1526–1620)
Temno and the Baroque (1620–1780)
Reform and revival (1780–1914)
War and the First Republic (1914–1938)
Munich, the war and after (1938–1948)
Communism (1948–1989)
Free again (1989–)

863: Cyril and Methodius come to Great Moravia — Prince Rastislav of Great Moravia, the first large Slavic state in the region, asked the Byzantine emperor for teachers who could preach in the Slavs' own…
28 September 935: Prince Wenceslas is murdered — Prince Wenceslas (Václav), a Christian ruler, was killed by his brother Boleslav at Stará Boleslav on 28 September — in 935, according to most historians,…
7 April 1348: Charles IV founds a university — Charles IV, son of John of Luxembourg and Elizabeth Přemyslovna, was King of Bohemia from 1346 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1355, and he made Prague his…
30 July 1419–1434: The first defenestration and the Hussite wars — On 30 July 1419 a procession of Hus's followers led by the preacher Jan Želivský stormed the New Town Hall in Prague and threw the councillors from its…
1583–1612: Rudolf II's Prague — Emperor Rudolf II moved his court from Vienna to Prague in 1583 and filled the castle with painters, astronomers and alchemists.
8 November 1620: The Battle of White Mountain — The army of the Czech estates was defeated in about two hours on White Mountain, just outside Prague, on 8 November 1620.
1834–1839: The National Revival and Jungmann's dictionary — By 1800 Czech was spoken mostly in villages; the educated wrote in German.
1914–1918: The First World War — Czech men fought in the Austro-Hungarian army, many of them on the Italian and Eastern fronts, without much wish to die for the Habsburgs.