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January Uprising It was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire. It began on 22 January 1863 and lasted until the last insurgents were captured in It was the biggest Polish uprising.

8th March The Polish 1968 political crisis, also known in Poland as March 1968 or March events (Polish: Marzec 1968; wydarzenia, wypadki marcowe) pertains to a major student and intellectual protest action against the government of the People's Republic of Poland. The crisis resulted in the suppression of student strikes by security forces in all major academic centres across the country and the subsequent repression of the Polish dissident movement.

The Battle of Racławice was one of the first battles of the Polish Kościuszko Uprising against Russia. It was fought on 4 April 1794 near the village of Racławice in Lesser Poland.

2nd May – Polish Flag Day 3rd May - The Constitution of May 3,1791 (Polish: Konstytucja 3 maja) was adopted by the Great Sejm (parliament) of the Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth, a dual monarchy comprising Poland and Lithuania.

4 June 1989 Solidarity's victory in the first free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti- communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.

1st August The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The Uprising was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces. However, the Soviet advance stopped short, enabling the Germans to regroup and demolish the city while defeating the Polish resistance, which fought for 63 days with little outside support. The Uprising was the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II O.

31st August Day of FREEDOM and SOLIDARITY - it's Polish National Holiday commemorating the anniversary of historical spurt Polish to liberty and independence from This event initiate downfall of communism time in Poland.

1st September Nazi Germany invade Poland – the beginning of European phase of World War II. 17st September The Soviet invasion of Poland. On that day, sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east.

11th November National Independence Day (Polish: Narodowe Święto Niepodległości) is a national day in Poland celebrated on 11 November to commemorate the anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as the Second Polish Republic in 1918, after 123 years of partition by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire. I

29th November November Uprising against Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon joined by large segments of Polish society, and the insurrection spread to the territories of Lithuania, western Belarus, and the right-bank of Ukraine. Despite some local successes, the uprising was crushed by a numerically superior Imperial Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich. Poland was declared as an integral part of Russia,

13th December Martial law in Poland (Polish: Stan wojenny w Polsce) refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983, when the authoritarian government of the People's Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition.

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