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Dateline
- 8th century -- Wislanie tribe sets up their state with Kraków as its capital.
- 999 -- Kraków province incorporates into The House of Piasts' realm.
- 1000 -- Kraków receives its own bishop.
- 1038 -- King Casimir I the Renovator moved Poland's capital to Kraków.
- 1241 -- Mongols demolish Kraków.
- 1257 -- Duke Boleslaw the Shy endows Kraków with self-government and trade privileges.
- 1311 -- Mutiny of Kraków burghers squashed by Prince Vladislav the Short.
- 1320 -- Coronation of King Vladislav I the Short, first such event in Kraków's Wawel Cathedral.
- 1335 -- King Casmir III the Great founds city of Kazimierz near Kraków.
- 1364 -- King Casmir III the Great founds the Kraków University.
- 1386 -- Kraków wedding of Poland's queen Jadwiga and Lithuania's grand duke Jagiello paves the way to the union of the two nations.
- 1447 -- Start of 45-year reign of King Casimir IV that makes Poland one of the greatest European powers.
- 1500 -- Start of the Renaissance renovation of the Wawel Royal Castle.
- 1574 -- Henry I Valois, the first of Poland's elective kings, leaves Kraków after a 4-month reign to become France's Henry III in Paris.
- 1587 -- A failed 6-week siege of Kraków by Maximillian Hapsburg.
- 1609 -- King Sigismund III Vasa moves his residence to Warsaw.
- 1655 -- Swedish army captures and devastates Kraków.
- 1683 -- King John III Sobieski leads a Polish army from Kraków to Vienna and save the city (and Christian Europe) from besieging Turks; brings back booty, now displayed in Kraków museums.
- 1702-11 -- Kraków captured and recaptured, on and on, and ruined by Swedish, German, Polish and Russian troops in the course of the Northern War.
- 1734 -- Coronation of King August III, the last one in Kraków's Wawel Cathedral.
- 1768 -- Kraków a center of the first Polish uprising suppressed by Russian troops.
- 1772-78 -- Russian occupation of Kraków.
- 1793 -- Another Russian occupation of Kraków.
- 1794 -- Kraków the center of national uprising led by Thaddeus Kosciuszko
- 1794 -- Prussian army captures Kraków, stealing Poland's regalia never to be recovered.
- 1796-1809 -- Austrians occupy Kraków.
- 1809 -- Kraków incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw under the sway of France's Napoleon I.
- 1813-15 -- Another Russian occupation of Kraków.
- 1815 -- The Congress of Vienna creates a tiny, independent Republic of Kraków.
- 1846 -- 9-day Kraków Revolution and subsequent Austrian annexation of the Kraków Republic.
- 1848 -- Second Kraków Revolution, Austrian bombardment of the city
- 1850 -- 10-day fierce fire destroys a quarter of Kraków.
- 1866 -- Vienna allowed Kraków a municipal self-government.
- 1879 -- Kraków National Museum, Poland's best collection of art, launched.
- 1884 -- Kraków installs its first telephone lines.
- 1912 -- Kraków's first movie house opens.
- 1914 -- Polish Legions, a nucleus of future Polish army, formed in Kraków by Jozef Pilsudski, Poland's future head of state.
- 1918 -- Kraków becomes first piece of the reborn free Poland when Polish authorities took control of the city.
- 1939 -- The Nazi Third Reich and the Communist Soviet Union divide Poland; Third Reich set up a General Governorship with Kraków as capital.
- 1945 -- The Soviet Red Army captures Kraków.
- 1979 -- Kraków archbishop Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II.
- 1980 -- Workers strike at the Nowa Huta Steelworks, on the outskirts of Kraków, helping to start the Solidarity trade union, beginning the domino effect collapse of Communism.
- 1989 -- Collapse of Communism in Poland.
- 1991 -- The first Democratic elections to local government since 1939.
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