Timeline of Imperial Stud Farm Kladruby Nad Labem
- 1491 Pernstein family purchased the Pardubice estate, later including Kladruby park
- 1560 Maxmilian II. (emperor since 1563) given the Pardubice estate with Kladruby park as a gift from the Czech estates
- 1562 Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor founded a Spanish horse stud farm in Kladruby
- 1579 Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor gave the stud farm an Imperial Court Stud Farm status
- 1757 Stud farm (with studbook documents) burned down
- 1770 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor rebuilt the stud farm
- 1764 foaling date of Pepoli, founding stallion of the gray variety of Kladrubers
- 1787 foaling date of Generale, gray stallion
- 1797 ofaling date of Generalissimus, gray stallion
- 1800 foaling date of Sacramoso, black stallion
- 1844 new Empire (style) stables built
- 1918 stud farm falls under governance and management by the new nation of Czechoslovakia
- 1922 Napoleone bloodline extinct
- 1995 Kladruber breed was designated a Czech Historic Landmark
- 2002 Kladruby stud farm and the basic herd of gray Kladrubers was designated a Czech National Historic Landmark
- 2005 Kladrubers serve on ceremonial occasions at Royal Court of Sweden and are used by mounted police of Sweden as well
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