| 1573 |
Confederation of Warsaw: Religious
toleration guaranteed |
| 1573 |
First Royal Election of Henry
Valois, future King of France: Pacta Conventa |
| 1576-1586 |
Reign of Stefan Bathory |
|
1578 |
Creation of legal Tribunals |
|
1584 |
Death of Jan Kochanowski |
| 1587-1632 |
Reign of Zygmunt III Vasa |
|
1596 |
Union of Brest: creation of Uniate Church |
|
1605 |
Polish intervention in Moscow's `Time of
Troubles' |
|
1606-8 |
Rebellion of M. Zebrzydowski |
|
1617-29 |
First Swedish war |
|
1620-1 |
First Turkish war: Cecora (1620), Chocim (1621) |
| 1632-1648 |
Reign of Wiadyslaw IV Vasa |
|
1634 |
Peace of Polanów with Muscovy |
|
1635 |
Peace of Stumsdorf with Sweden; Reestablishment
of Orthodox hierarchy |
| 1648-1668 |
Reign of Jan Kazimierz Vasa |
|
1648-57 |
Chmielnicki's Revolt in Ukraine |
|
1652 |
First Liberum Veto |
|
1654-60 |
First Northern War, with Sweden. Peace of Oliva
(1660) |
|
1655-67 |
Muscovite War: Truce of Andrusov (1667) |
|
1657 |
Treaty of Wehlau: independence of Duchy of
Prussia |
|
1661 |
Merkuriusz
Polski: first Polish newspaper |
|
1665-7 |
Rebellion of Jerzy Lubomirski |
| 1672 |
Second Turkish War |
| 1674-1696 |
Reign of Jan Sobieski |
|
1675 |
Treaty of Jaworów with France |
|
1683 |
Siege of Vienna |
|
1686 |
Grzymultowski Peace (unratified) with Muscovy |
| 1697-1764 |
Reign of Saxon Kings: August II (to
1733), August III (to 1764) |
|
1700-21 |
Great Northern War |
| 1704-10 |
|
Stanislaw Leszczynski, elected King under
Swedish protection |
|
1717 |
Silent Sejm: start of Russian Protectorate |
|
1733-5 |
War of the Polish Succession |
|
1747 |
Zaluski Library opened to public |
| 1764-1795 |
Reign of Stanislaw-August
Poniatowski |
|
1768-72 |
Confederation of Bar (Pulaski) |
|
1772 |
First Partition of Poland |
|
1780 |
Adam Naruszewicz's History of the Polish
Nation |
|
1788-92 |
Four Years' Sejm |
|
1791 |
Constitution of 3 May |
|
1792 |
Confederation of Targowica: Russo-Polish War |
|
1793 |
Second Partition of Poland: last Sejm at Grodno |
|
1794 |
Kosciuszko's National Rising |
|
1795 |
Third Partition of Poland: King's deportation
and abdication. |
