| General |
Communist Party
Government
Northern War, 2nd
Peasant Party
Polish Socialist Party
Polish Workers Party
PUWP
Rebellion
Roman Catholic Church
Solidarity
World War, 1st
World War, 2nd
| | Biographies |
Cyrankiewicz, Josej
Gomulka, Wladyslaw
Jaruzelski, Wojciech
John II Casimir
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz
Lis, Bogdan
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw
Pilsudski, Josef Klemens
Popieluszko, Jerzy
Walesa, Lech
Wyszynski, Stefan
| | Places |
Gdansk
Maciejowice
Siberia
Warsaw
Zalozce
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History of Poland
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| | 1655 | John II Casimir | |
| Zalozce Poland's ally Mahmet Girei captures Chmielnicki at Zalozce
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| 1794 | Kosciuszko, Tadeusz | |
| Arrested by the Russians for leading a rebellion
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| 10th Oct Maciejowice Suvorov crushes the Polish rebel army & takes the leader, Kosciuszko, prisoner
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| 1796 | Kosciuszko, Tadeusz | |
| Releaded by the Russians
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| 1887 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Siberia Given 5 yrs in Siberia on the false charge of conspiring to assassinate Alexander III
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| 1892 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Siberia Released from his arrest
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| 1900 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Warsaw Manages to escape to England & returns to Poland in 1902
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| 1903 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Arrested for anti-Tsarist activity
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| 1917 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| 30th July Arrested after refusing to swear an oath of allegience to the Central Powers
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| 1918 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Released during the armistice
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| 1926 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| 13th May Warsaw Arrests President Wojciechowski
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| 1930 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Warsaw Has arrested & tortured 80 members of Parliament who disagreed with him
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| 1936 | Gomulka, Wladyslaw | |
| Gomulka is arrested
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| 1939 | Gomulka, Wladyslaw | |
| Escapes after the German invasion of Poland
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| 1941 | Cyrankiewicz, Josej | |
| Arrested by the Nazis, 1941-45
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| 1946 | Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw | |
| Arrested prior to the national elections during anti-Communist demonstrations
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| 1951 | Gomulka, Wladyslaw | |
| Gomulka is arrested
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| Warsaw Kept in "protective custody" for being considerred too nationalistic by Moscow
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| 1953 | Wyszynski, Stefan | |
| Arrested for opposition to Stalin, 1953-56
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| 1954 | Gomulka, Wladyslaw | |
| Gomulka is released from prison
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| 1956 | Gomulka, Wladyslaw | |
| Readmitted into the Polish United Workers Party
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| 1956 | Wyszynski, Stefan | |
| Released after the death of Stalin & restored
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| 1981 | Jaruzelski, Wojciech | |
| Dec Walesa is arrested by Jaruzelski, who fears Polish invasion
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| 13th Dec Arrests 3/4 of the Solidarity leadership
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| 1981 | Walesa, Lech | |
| Dec Walesa is arrested by Jaruzelski, who fears Polish invasion
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| 1982 | Jaruzelski, Wojciech | |
| Nov Walesa is released from prison
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| 1982 | Walesa, Lech | |
| 12th Nov Walesa is released from prison
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| 1983 | Walesa, Lech | |
| 22nd April Gdansk Walesa returns to work at the Lenin Shipyard
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| 1984 | Lis, Bogdan | |
| 10th June A high official of the banned Solidarity union is arrested
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| 1984 | Popieluszko, Jerzy | |
| Security police arrest pro-Solidarity Jerzy Popieluszko
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| 1988 | Jaruzelski, Wojciech | |
| Warsaw Political prisoners are released
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| 1988 | Walesa, Lech | |
| Political prisoners are released
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