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Events in Warsaw History

Great Northern War

1702-05-14 Great Northern War: Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Treaty of Interest

1716-11-03 Treaty signed ending the Polish civil war between the Tarnogrów confederates and Saxon forces led by Augustus II. Tsar Peter the Great's influence and support for Augustus II leads to the Silent Sejm and Russian involvement. [1]

1775-01-22 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski confiscates goods being sold by Jews in settlements on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland
1775-02-22 Jews expelled from their settlements on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland
1784-05-25 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1794-11-09 Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1808-10-17 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1816-11-19 Warsaw University is established
1861-02-27 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1863-06-17 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1905-02-13 -40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
1905-06-25 Tsarist Russian troops in Łódź, Congress Poland crush workers' militia insurrection against Russian occupation; 151-200 workers killed and over 1,000 injured
1914-10-15 Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21)
1914-10-21 Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1915-08-05 Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
1920-08-12 Battle of Warsaw between Poland and Russia begins

Battle of Warsaw

1920-08-15 Polish troops commanded by Józef Piłsudski defeat the Soviets at the Battle of Warsaw (Miracle upon the Vistula)

Statesman and First Marshall Józef Piłsudski

1920-08-25 Russia suffers a final decisive defeat in the Battle of Warsaw against Poland
1939-09-08 General Von Reichenau's panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1939-09-09 Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1939-09-11 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
1939-09-25 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939-09-27 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1939-10-01 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1939-11-15 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews

Warsaw Ghetto

1940-10-16 Warsaw Ghetto is formed by German Governor-General Hans Frank

Warsaw Ghetto

1940-10-31 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto

1940-11-26 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1942-07-22 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
1942-12-04 Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization

Warsaw Ghetto to be Deported

1943-01-09 Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler views the Warsaw Ghetto - ordered deportation of 8,000 Jews

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler

1943-01-19 1st Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
1943-04-17 SS General Jürgen Stroop arrives in Warsaw
1943-04-19 Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943-05-16 SS General Jürgen Stroop orders the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, ending a month of Jewish resistance. 13,000 Jews have died, about half burnt alive or suffocated, German casualties less than 300
1944-08-01 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe
1944-08-05 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
1944-10-02 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed
1945-01-17 Soviet army enters the devastated city of Warsaw and clears German resistance

Execution of Witold Pilecki

1948-05-25 Polish war hero Witold Pilecki is executed by communist police after a show trial in Warsaw

Polish Resistance Fighter Witold Pilecki

1954-07-14 118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
1955-05-14 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1956-11-01 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1968-03-08 Students demonstrate in Warsaw

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

1968-08-20 During the night 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring

Crowds of protesters surround Soviet tanks during the first days of the invasion of Czechoslovakia

Soviet History

1968-08-21 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols

Leader of Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubček

1968-09-12 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1968-09-13 Albania leaves Warsaw pact

Johan Cruyff Wins Again

1974-12-31 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins back-to-back awards, and his 3rd overall, for best European football player ahead of Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer and Legia Warsaw midfielder Kazimierz Deyna

1977-12-30 Carter holds 1st news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1980-12-15 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1983-04-17 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters
1987-05-09 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1990-01-12 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1990-09-24 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1991-03-31 Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991-04-01 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1991-08-08 The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
1999-03-12 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2005-11-25 Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians showing maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, including the nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities by Soviet-controlled forces.
2015-06-21 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
2017-11-11 Nationalist march in Warsaw, Poland, draws 60,000, to coincide with country's independence day
2019-09-01 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80 year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw

Famous People from Warsaw

1612-06-25 John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1634)
1661-05-25 Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1737)
1740-10-26 Ernest Louis Muller, Polish composer and flautist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1811)

Casimir Pulaski (1747-1779)

1747-03-06 Polish military leader, known as "the father of American cavalry', born in Warsaw, Poland

1777-03-09 Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1832)

Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840)

1787-03-08 German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery, born in Warsaw, Poland

Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831)

1789-12-14 Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland [1]

1800-04-16 Jozef Stefani, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1876)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

1810-03-01 Polish pianist and composer (Concerto in F Minor), born in Żelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw

1810-05-04 Alexander Walewski, French earl and Foreign Minister, born in Walewice, Warsaw, Poland (d. 1868)
1816-09-15 Edward Wolff, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1880)
1834-07-01 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1908)
1841-11-04 Carl Tausig, Polish pianist, student and protégé of Liszt, and composer noted for his transcriptions, born in Warsaw (d. 1871)
1844-12-22 Izydor Lotto, Polish violinist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1927)
1846-05-02 Zygmunt Noskowski, Polish composer, conductor, and pedagogue, born in Warsaw, Russian Poland (d. 1909)
1846-06-07 Władysław Górski, Polish violinist, composer and teacher, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1915)
1846-12-06 Henryk Jarecki, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1918)
1850-01-14 Jean de Reszke, Polish tenor, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1925)
1855-07-03 Piotr Maszyński, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1934)
1856-06-08 Natalia Janotha, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1932)

Marie Curie (1867-1934)

1867-11-07 Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland

1872-03-19 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), born in Warsaw (d. 1918)
1873-09-28 Wacław Rawicz [Berent], Polish biologist and writer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1940)
1875-04-04 Jozef Szulc, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Russian Poland (d. 1956)
1876-11-02 Eugeniusz Morawski-Dabrowa, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1948)
1878-07-22 Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto) [or born in 1879], born in Warsaw, Congress Poland (d. 1942)
1879-07-03 Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American scientist and philosopher, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1950)
1879-07-05 Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1959)
1879-11-27 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (d. 1950)
1881-12-24 Bronisław Szulc, Polish conductor and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1955)
1882-03-14 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1969)