Most important events in Czech history

Century by century and zooming in on the last 100 years. Also describes the importance of number 8 for Czech history of the last two centuries.

Century	Czech Lands	Rest of the World
up to 1100s	Celts, Germanic Tribes, Slavic Tribes, The Great Moravia, Přemyslids, introduction of literacy (Cyril and Methodius), introduction of (western) Christianty,	Tribes moving around, spread of Christianity over Europe
1200	Czech kingdom-Czech rulers obtain hereditary right to the title King, Přemysl Otokar II. Czech king controlling large parts of Central Europe	Wars, famines, crusades
1300	Charles IV., Charles University founded, Bible translated into Czech	Renaissance starting, 100-year war, Chaucer
1400	Burning of Jan Hus, 1^st defenestration, Hussite wars, Jiří z Poděbrad's peace mission	Joan of Arc, America discovered, invention of printing press
1500	Polish and Hapsburg rulers, arts and sciences flourish, new translation of Bible sets standard for Czech language	America being explored, Luther
1600	Comenius, 2^nd defenestration, big execution, exile, begining of thirty-year war, exile of Czech nobles, germanization	Shakespeare, revolutions, 30-year war
1700	Under the Hapsburgs, baroque and rather dull times	French revolution, rise of Napoleon, USA gains independence
1800	Fighting for more independence, national revival, toying with the idea of panslavism, still under the Hapsburgs, National Theater built (twice)	Fall of Napoleon, more wars and crystalization of modern nations
1900	New republic together with Slovakia, split with Slovakia, WWII, communism, fall of communism, split from Slovakia	WWI & II, Cold War, crises and conflicts

Period	Czech Lands	Rest of the World
1918 - 1938	So-called First Republic, time of economic prosperity and democracy	recovering from WWI
1938	Losing Sudetenland, Slovakia separated	gathering clouds, Austria Annexed by Germany
1939	Protectorate starts: annexed by Germany results: closed University	Preparing for showdown: non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany, Germany attacks Poland, Brittain and France declare war
1945	Prague insurgence (Pražské povstání), end of war, repatriation of Germans from Sudeten Land	Berlin falls, atomic bomb used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1948	Communists take over government (having won elections in 1946)	State of Israel proclaimed, Marshall Plan begins
1950s	Hard core communism	McCarthism in USA, Stalin's death, Korean War
1968	Following a liberal trend of the 60s so-called Prague spring ends in an invasion by allied forces	Martin Luther King killed, Vietnam war peaks (10.000^th plane shot down), R. Kennedy shot
1970s	"Normalization", Charter 77	Man on Moon, oil shock, end of Vietnam war, war in Cambodia
1989	"Velvet" Revolution	Communism not doing well world wide: fall in Romania, E. Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland, George Bush becomes president
1993	Split with Slovakia	Bill Clinton becomes president

1. 1918 - Foundation of Czechoslovakia after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

2. 1938 - Slovakia breaks off, start of the so-called ‘Second Republic'.

3. 1948 - Communist government takes power for 41 years.

4. 1968 - Prague reforms stopped by invasion of allied armies of East-Bloc countries.

5. 1989 - ‘Velvet' Revolution caused the fall of the communist government.