20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain (6) 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area (19) 2.11.1938 - 14. 3. 1939 - Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia (40) 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria (12) 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat (167) 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities (32) 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR (170) 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 (256) 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State (38) 1940 - The Battle of France (43) 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain (26) 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster (7) 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt (9) 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps (142) 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign (31) 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi (2) 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR (120) 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice (25) 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich (48) 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín (19) 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo (27) 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev (44) 17. 1. - 18. 5. 1944 - The Battle of Monte Cassino (2) 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord (14) 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration (7) 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk (70) 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov (33) 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass (184) 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising (70) 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia (403) 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps (102) 18. 4. 1945 - Zákřovský masakr (4) 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising (80) 5. 5. 1945 - vypálení Javoříčka (3) 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia (101) 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR (19) 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia (23) 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR (65) 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel) (10) 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš (18) 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR (568) 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age (260) 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering (24) 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle” (5) 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation (56) 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (7) 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka (15) 8. - 11. 10. 1950 - Trial against F.A.Stříteský, head of the piarist dormitory in Litomyšl (8) 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks (16) 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial (18) 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial (11) 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval (19) 23. 10. - 11. 11. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 (6) 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers (1) 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners (90) 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty (8) 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions (5) 31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague (3) 27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers (3) 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r (4) 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) (5) 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring (91) 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ (1) 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (141) 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation (16) 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation (8) 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period (10) 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s (5) 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial (4) 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 (40) 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter” (1) 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (5) 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu (1) 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime (13) 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída (8) 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution (2) 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain (94) 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět (8) 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia (92) 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa (3) 2. 3. - 21. 7. 1992 - Konflikt v Podněstří (1)
