CHRONOLOGY xxix1564 Arrival of Jesuits in Poland
1569 Transfer of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Poland: Union of
Lublin signed1569-1795 'RZECZPOSPOL1TA' OF POLAND-LITHUANIA
1573 Confederation of Warsaw: Religious toleration guaranteed
1573 First Royal Election of Henry Valois: Pacta Conventa
1576-1586 Reign of Stefan Bathory
1578 Creation of legal Tribunals
1584 Death of Jan Kochanowski
1587-1632 Reign of Zygmunt III Vasa
1596 Union of Brest: creation of Uniate Church
1605 Polish intervention in Moscow's 'Time of Troubles'
1606-8 Rokosz of M. Zebrzydowski
1617-19 First Swedish war
1620-1 First Turkish war: Cecora (1620), Chocim (1621)
1632-1648 Reign of Wladyslaw IV Vasa
1634 Peace of Polanow with Muscovy
1635 Peace of Stumsdorf with Sweden
Re-establishment of Orthodox hierarchy
1648-1668 Reign of Jan Kazimierz Vasa
1648-57 Chmielnicki's Revolt in Ukraine
1652 First Liberum Veto
1654-60 First Northern War, with Sweden. Peace of 01iwa(1660)
1655-67 Muscovite War: Truce of Andrusovo (1667)
1657 Treaty of Wehlau: independence of Duchy of Prussia
1661 Merkuriusz Polski: first Polish newspaper
1665-7 Rebellion of Jerzy Lubomirski
1672 Second Turkish War
1674—1696 Reign of Jan Sobieski
1675 Treaty of Jaworow with France
1683 Siege of Vienna
1686 Grzymultowski Peace (unratified) with Muscovy
1697-1764 Reign of Saxon Kings: August II(to 1733), August III (to
1764)
1700-21 Great Northern War
1704-10 Stanislaw Leszczyriski, elected King under
Swedish protection
1717 Silent Sejm: start of Russian Protectorate
1724 Tumult of Thorn
1733—5 War of the Polish Succession
1747 Zaluski Library opened to public
1764-1795 Reign of Stanislaw-August Poniatowski
1768-72 Confederation of Bar
1772 First Partition of Poland