16 events with tag "Poland"
750
ID: 4188
Wawel Dragon slain by Krak - dragon under Wawel Hill killed with sheep stuffed with sulfur (Polish chronicles)
ID: 4188
1241
ID: 4741
Battle of Legnica - Mongols defeat Polish-German army, collect nine sacks of ears
ID: 4741
1241
ID: 45
April 9, 1241
Battle of Legnica - Mongols defeat Polish and German knights, Europe saved only by Ogedei Khan's death
ID: 45
1370
ID: 5553
Louis I the Great becomes King of Poland too, Hungary reaches greatest territorial extent
ID: 5553
1409
ID: 5895
Polish kings reserve aurochs hunting - only royalty may hunt remaining aurochs in Polish forests, populations declining
ID: 5895
1564
ID: 5897
Polish royal gamekeepers appointed for aurochs - special guards protect last herd in Jaktorow Forest, only 38 animals remain
ID: 5897
1580
ID: 3509
Peak Jesuit influence in Counter-Reformation (1580s-1590s) - Recover Poland, parts of Germany - Protestant alarm: 'They have stolen our method of education and improved it'
ID: 3509
1599
ID: 5898
Only 24 aurochs left in world - all in Jaktorow Forest Poland, 4 bulls and 20 cows, intense protection efforts
ID: 5898
1620
ID: 5899
Last aurochs bull dies - only one female remains alive in Jaktorow Forest, extinction inevitable
ID: 5899
1627
ID: 5900
Last aurochs dies in Poland - final cow dies in Jaktorow Forest, ending species that existed since Pleistocene
ID: 5900
1772
ID: 5997
First Partition of Poland - Catherine the Great takes eastern territories with 1.8 million new subjects
ID: 5997
1793
ID: 6002
Second Partition of Poland - Catherine the Great takes vast Lithuanian and Ukrainian lands, 3 million new subjects
ID: 6002
1795
ID: 6003
Third Partition of Poland - Poland disappears from map, Catherine the Great takes remaining eastern territories
ID: 6003
1918
ID: 1269
St. Maximilian Kolbe ordained as priest, returns to newly independent Poland
ID: 1269
1919
ID: 1281
Poland typhus: 120,000 cases in July alone
ID: 1281
1979
ID: 1970
June 2, 1979
June 2-11: Pope John Paul II's historic Poland visit - 'nine days that changed the world'
ID: 1970