Prague Guide

Short Prague History

Please read short Prague History for today and wath some Prague Pictures:
Around 870: Foundation of Prague Castle.
Around 926: Foundation of St. Vitus Cathedral rotunda in the Prague Castle grounds.
965: Prague first reported in the narration of Ibrahim Ibn Jakub, a merchant.
973: Foundation of Prague bishopric.
10th century: Foundation of Vysehrad on the opposite bank of the Vltava river.
1085: Prague becomes the residence of the first Bohemian king Vratislav I.
1172: Construction of Judita´s Bridge, the 2nd stone bridge in Central Europe.
Around 1230: Establishment of the Old Town.
1257: Foundation of Mala Strana.
1310 - 1346: John of Luxembourg rules as the king of Bohemia.
Around 1320: Foundation of Hradcany, the area around Prague Castle.
1338: Foundation of the Old Town Hall - the importance of the city increases.
1344: Prague bishopric upgraded to archbishopric, beginning of St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert Cathedral (finished 1929).
1346-1378: Charles IV epoch - Prague becomes the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire.
1348: Foundation of the New Town and Charles University, first university in Central Europe.
1419-1437: Attempts of the clergy to reform the church result in the Hussites revolutionary movement (Jan Hus - the reform preacher and martyr).
1526: Hapsburg dynasty ascends the Bohemian throne (until 1918).
1583-1611: Rudolf II becomes the king of Bohemia, and Prague the emperors residence, centre of social and cultural life.
1618-1620: Defeat of the Czech nobles´ uprising; Czech language and Czech national consciousness begin to decline.
1784: Union of the four hitherto independent Prague urban units (Hradcany, Lesser Town, Old Town and New Town).
1784-1848: Period of Czech national revival, beginning of the industrial revolution, establishment of Czech institutions.
1918: Proclamation of the independence of Czechoslovakia. Prague becomes the capital of the new state.
1939-1945: Occupation by Nazi Germany.
1945: The Prague uprising, "liberation" of Prague by the Soviet army.
1948: Seizure of power by KSC after the February putsch.
1968: Prague Spring - an attempt to reform socialism, intervention of 5 states of the Warsaw Pact.
1989: Velvet revolution, Vaclav Havel elected President of Czechoslovakia.
1990: First free elections.
1993: January 1, Czechoslovakia splits in two and the Czech Republic is founded.
1993: January 26, Vaclav Havel elected first president of the Czech Republic.
1999: March 12, Czech Republic becomes a member of NATO.
2004: May 1, Czech Republic joins the European Union (E.U.).

posted by Czech @ 4:43 AM