Timeline of Important Moments in Prague History
- 870 Prague Castle founded
- 1085 Prague became the seat of kings - 1st king Vratislaus II.
- 1344 the Prague Bishopric became an Archdiocese
- 1346 the rule of Charles IV. - Prague capital of Holy Roman Empire
- 1348 University of Prague (Charles University) founded
- 1415 in Konstanz, Jan Hus is burned at the stake as a heretic
- 1419 1st Prague defenestration
- 1420 battle on Vítkov Mountain - Hussites win over crusaders
- 1583 rule of Rudolf II - city for the 2nd time the capital of Holy Roman Empire and cultural center of Europe
- 1618 2nd Prague defenestration sparked off the Thirty Years' War
- 1621 execution of 27 Czech nobles on the Old Town Square as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain
- 1648 west bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) occupied and looted by Swedish armies
- 1741 occupation by French-Bavarian armies
- 1744 occupation by Prussian armies
- 1848 revolutionary uprising crushed by imperial army
- 1890 big flood caused extreme damage
- 1918 after World War I Prague became the capital of Czechoslovakia
- 1922 Great Prague created by uniting Prague with its suburbs and neighboring towns
- 1938 after political betrayal of allies (France and Britain at Munich) Germany occupied Sudetenland and in 1939 the whole country
- 1942 Czechoslovak paratroopers kill Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis respond with wave of terror
- 1945 U.S. Air Force conducts bombing of Prague in World War II, killing hundreds of Praguers by mistake (Target was Dresden, 134 km away).
- 1945 Prague uprising against the Nazi German occupants during the last days of World War II, ended with the arrival of the Red Army – followed by an expulsion of German citizens
- 1948 communist takeover of power
- 1968 the Prague Spring and Soviet army invasion to repress political liberalization
- 1989 Prague is the main center of Velvet Revolution (the fall of communist regime)
- 1993 Prague becomes capital of newly independent Czech Republic
- 2002 Prague suffers from flooding, parts of the city evacuated, many historic archives damaged but no major landmarks destroyed
- 2007 The Codex Gigas returns to Prague after 379 years
The four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were eventually proclaimed a single city in 1784. Those four cities were Hradčany (the Castle District, west and north of the Castle), Little Quarter (Malá Strana, south of the Castle), Old Town (Staré Město, on the east bank opposite the Castle) and New Town (Nové Město, further south and east). The city underwent further expansion with the annexation of Josefov in 1850 and Vyšehrad in 1883, and at the beginning of 1922, another 37 municipalities were incorporated, raising the city's population to 676,000. In 1938 population reached 1,000,000.
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