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  2. 1764 Polish–Lithuanian royal election - Wikipedia

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    On November 25, 1764, following the order of Catherine the Great, Primate Władysław Aleksander Łubieński crowned Poniatowski as King of Poland. The ceremony took place at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw , and the new king, to dismay of conservatives, did not put on traditional Polish clothes, preferring to wear instead a 16th-century ...

  3. History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764–1795)

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    The History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764–1795) is concerned with the final decades of existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.The period, during which the declining state pursued wide-ranging reforms and was subjected to three partitions by the neighboring powers, coincides with the election and reign of the federation's last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski.

  4. Royal elections in Poland - Wikipedia

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    Royal elections in Poland (Polish: wolna elekcja, lit. free election ) were the elections of individual kings , rather than dynasties , to the Polish throne . Based on traditions dating to the very beginning of the Polish statehood, strengthened during the Piast and Jagiellon dynasties, they reached their final form in the Polish–Lithuanian ...

  5. History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764)

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    The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764) covers a period in the history of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from the time their joint state became the theater of wars and invasions fought on a great scale in the middle of the 17th century, to the time just before the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of the Polish ...

  6. List of Polish monarchs - Wikipedia

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    Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period, a tradition of free election of monarchs made it a uniquely electable position in Europe (16th to 18th centuries).

  7. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - Wikipedia

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    The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [c] and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic, [d] [9] [10] was a federative real union [11] between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795.

  8. Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - Wikipedia

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    Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1764 (detail) In addition to the regular sessions of the general sejm, three special types of sejms handled the process of the royal election in the interregnum period. [41] Those were: Convocation sejm (Sejm konwokacyjny). This sejm was called upon a death or abdication of a king by the Primate of ...

  9. Timeline of Polish history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland