| c. 180,000 BC |
Earliest trace of Man in the Ojców Caves near
Cracow |
| 4000-1800 |
Neolithic cultures |
| c. 2500 |
Beginnings of primitive agriculture |
| 1800-400 |
Bronze Age cultures |
| c. 600 |
Iron Age cultures begin |
| c. 550 |
Earliest construction of island fortress at
Biskupin |
| c. 500 |
Invasion of nomadic Scythians |
| c. 400 |
Presence of Celtic tribes |
| 1 st Century AD |
Presence of Germanic tribes - Goths, Gepids,
Markomans, Burgundians, etc. |
| 2nd Century |
Ptolemy's Geography mentions Kalixia (Kalisz) |
| 3rd Century |
Emigration of Goths and Gepids to Black Sea
Coast |
| 5th Century |
Supremacy of the Huns |
| 6th Century |
Supremacy of the Avars: Expansion of the Slavs
begins |
| c. 844 |
Anonymous Bavarian Geographer's List of Slavonic
tribes east of Elbe |
