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Following the Napoleonic Wars, many sovereigns claimed the title of Polish king, duke or ruler, notably German (the King of Prussia was also the sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1918), Russian (the Congress Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1815 with the widely unrecognized title of King of Poland to the Emperor of Russia until 1915 ...
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
Depiction of a royal assembly in the reign of Casimir III, 1333-1370 Wawel Castle in Kraków was the residence of the Polish kings from 1038 until 1598. The next attempt to restore the monarchy and unify the Polish kingdom would occur in 1296, when Przemysł II was crowned as the King of Poland in Gniezno. The coronation did not require papal ...
Attempts to reunite the Polish lands gained momentum in the 13th century, and in 1295, Duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland managed to become the first ruler since Bolesław II to be crowned king of Poland. [27] He ruled over a limited territory and was soon killed. In 1300–05 King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia also reigned as king of Poland. [27]
967 – 17 June 1025: Duke: 992 King: 18 April 1025: Duke: 18 April 1025 King: 17 June 1025: Son of Mieszko I and Dobrawa of Bohemia.First to be crowned king. Regnum Sclavorum, Gothorum sive Polonorum
titular king 1265–1335 r. 1307–1310: Casimir III the Great 1310–1333–1370: Elisabeth of Poland 1305–1380: Charles I of Hungary 1286–1342: Anastasia of Halych: Alexander prince of Tver 1301–1339: John II of France 1319–1364: Bonne of Luxembourg 1315–1349: William, Count of Celje 1361–1392: Anna of Poland 1366–1425: Louis I ...
The History of Poland. Greenwood, 2000. 264 pp. online edition Archived 13 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine; Blit, Lucjan. The Origins of Polish Socialism: The History and Ideas of the First Polish Socialist Party, 1878–1886 (Cambridge University Press, 1971).
The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. [3] The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (c. 960 –992). [4] The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of King Casimir III the Great.