October 11, 2005

Some important dates

As a start, I'll post some important dates in Prague history

870 -Prague Castle founded
1085 - Prague became the seat of kings
1346 - the rule of Charles IV. - Prague capital of Holy Roman Empire
1583 - rule of Rudolf II - city for the 2nd time the capital of Holy Roman Empire
1618 - 2nd Prague defenestration sparked off the Thirty Years' War
1848 - revolutionary uprising crushed by imperial army
1918 - after the World War I Prague became the capital of Czechoslovakia
1938 - after political betrayal of allied (France and Britain at Munich) Germany occupied Sudetenland and in 1939 whole country
1945 - uprising against the Nazis during the last days of World War II, ended with the arrival of the Red Army
1948 - communist takeover of power
1968 - Soviet army invasion to repress the Prague Spring
1989 - Prague is the main center of Velvet Revolution (the fall of communist regime)

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