20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain (4) 2.11.1938 - 14. 3. 1939 - Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia (22) 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria (5) 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat (78) 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area (9) 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 (114) 14. 3. 1939 – the foundation of the Slovak State (15) 17. 11. 1939 – closure of Czech universities (15) 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR (72) 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain (20) 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster (6) 1940 - The Battle of France (30) 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - the Tobruk campaign (21) 1941, August 27-28 - mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi (1) 22. 6. 1941 – Nazi attack on the USSR (62) 4. 12. 1941 - the first transport to the Theresienstadt (8) 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps (57) 27. 5. 1942 - assassination of R. Heydrich (21) 10. 6. 1942 – destruction of Lidice (5) 13. 6. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín (12) 8. 3. 1943 - the battle of Sokolovo (13) 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev (24) 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord (6) 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration (1) 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk (40) 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - battle of Biela Cerkov (19) 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass (114) 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising (34) 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia (208) 17. 1. - 18. 5. 1944 - The Battle of Monte Cassino (1) 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising (39) 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps (50) 29. 6. 1945 – withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR (14) 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia (44) 10. 7. 1946 – agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR (39) 26. 5. 1946 – the last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia (4) 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel) (6) 8. 9. 1948 – funeral of President Edvard Beneš (10) 25. 2. 1948 - communist coup d‘état in ČSR (244) 1948 - 1955 - politic lawsuit in the Stalin age (125) 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – the Sokol Gathering (8) 21. 6. 1949 – execution of General Heliodor Píka (9) 11. 12. 1949 – the “Čihošť Miracle” (2) 23. 2. 1949 – beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation (15) 24. 2. 1949 – formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (3) 8. - 11. 10. 1950 - Trial against F.A.Stříteský, head of the piarist dormitory in Litomyšl (4) 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks (6) 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial (9) 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial (4) 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – the monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval (7) 
22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers (0) 11. 7. 1960 - enactment of the new Constitution of the ČSSR, amnesty (30) 9. 5. 1962 – an extensive amnesty (4) 22. 8. 1963 – start of court restitutions (1) 27. – 29. 6. 1967 - the 4th Congress of Czech Writers (0) 31. 10. 1967 – spontaneous student demonstration in Prague (0) 5. 4. 1968 – formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) (2) 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - the Prague Spring (28) 22. 8. 1968 – extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ (1) 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (57) 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – the three-day student strike and other displays of civil r (2) 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation (4) 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation (3) 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period (1) 21. – 28.3.1969 – disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s (2) 1976 – the Plastic People of the Universe trial (0) 28. 1. 1977 - the “Anti-Charter” (0) 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 (16) 24. 4. 1978 – formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (1) 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – street demonstrations against the communist regime (5) 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain (42) 29. 6. 1989 – zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět (4) 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia (37) 17. 11. 1989 - demonstration at Národní třída (2)
