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Timeline of Polish history

events notable to Poland and its predecessor states

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2967042 ↗
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This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland.

Prehistory

5th century

10th century

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

The Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)

Occupation of Poland (1939–45)

Communist takeover, Polish People's Republic

Democratic Republic of Poland

21st century

See also

Timeline of Białystok

Timeline of Gdańsk

Timeline of Kraków

Timeline of Łódź

Timeline of Poznań

Timeline of Szczecin

Timeline of Warsaw

Timeline of Wrocław

Category:Timelines of cities in Poland (in Polish)

Periodization of Polish history

References

Library of Congress, A Country Study: Poland, Chronology of Important Events: online

Further reading

Thomas Bartlett (1841). "Poland". New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events. London: Thomas Kelly.

J. Willoughby Rosse (1859). "Poland". Index of Dates ...

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