God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795

CHRONOLOGY

Prehistory

BC c. 180,000
4000-1800
c. 2500
1800-400
c. 600
c 550
c. 500
c. 400
AD 1 st Century

2nd Century

3rd Century

5th Century

6th Century

c. 844

Earliest trace of Man, in the Ojcow Caves near Cracow

Neolithic cultures

Beginnings of primitive agriculture

Bronze Age cultures

Iron Age cultures begin

Earliest construction of island fortress at Biskupin

Invasion of nomadic Scythians

Presence of Celtic tribes

Presence of Germanic tribes - Goths, Gepids, Markomans,

Burgundians, etc.

Ptolemy's Geography mentions Kalixia (Kalisz)

Emigration of Goths and Gepids to Black Sea Coast

Supremacy of the Huns

Supremacy of the Avars: Expansion of the Slavs begins

Anonymous Bavarian Geographer's List of Slavonic tribes

east of Elbe

History

9th Century to 1370(-85) THE PIAST KINGDOM

c. 850 Founding of Piast dynasty in the Polanian realm

Vislanian tribe within the sphere of the Great Moravian

Empire

pre-963-992 Reign of Mieszko I

966 Baptism of Mieszko I: Introduction of Latin Christianity

991 Dagome Index: oldest manuscript from Poland

992-1025 Reign of Boleslaw I Chrobry

997 Martyrdom of St. Wojciech (Adalbert)

1000 Congress of Gniezno: Founding of Polish See

1025 Coronation of Boleslaw I

1079 Execution of St. Stanislaw, Bishop of Cracow

1116 Chronicle of Gallus Anonimus written

1138 Testament of Boleslaw III Krzywousty: initiation of the

'principate'

1138-1295 Period of fragmentation of Piast realm

1180 Congress of Leczyca: ecclestiastical immunities granted

c. 1220 Chronicle of Wincenty Kadlubek