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| 0979 | Miesko I |  |
| Otto II & Hodo attack Poland but are defeated |
| 1157 | Boleslaw IV | |
| Frederick I Invades Poland & forces the submission of Duke Boleslaw IV |
| 1241 | Mazovia of Poland | |
| Batu Khan leads a Tartar invasion of sth Poland |
| 1531 | Sigismund I the Elder | |
| Defends the eastern front against the Moldavians |
| 1535 | Sigismund I the Elder | |
| Defends the eastern front against the Russians |
| 1626 | Koniecpolski, Hetman Alexander | |
| River Vistula Invades the Vistula & captures Puck but cannot cut the Swedish lines to Pillau |
| 1632 | Wladyslaw IV Vasa | |
| Sep Russia invades Poland |
| 1655 | John II Casimir | |
| River Niemen Alexis advances as far as the River Niemen |
| River Niemen Alexis proclaims himself Grand Duke of Lithuania |
| Charles X Gustavus invades Poland & Lithuania & begins the 2nd Northern War |
| Livonia Sweden attacks Poland from Livonia |
| 1672 | John III | |
| The Turks invade Poland, occupy Lublin & capture the strategic fortress of Kamieniec |
| 1675 | John III | |
| Some 60,000 Turks & 100,000 Tartars invade Poland & recapture Chocim |
| 1676 | John III | |
| About 200,000 Turks invade Poland under Ibrahim Pasha |
| 1701 | Augustus II the Strong | |
| June Charles XII invades Poland |
| 1939 | Sikorski, Wladyslaw | |
| 4th Aug Danzig German troops concentrate on the Polish border after the Polish ultimatum to Danzig |
| 9th Sep The 4th Panzer Div launches the 1st attack on Warsaw |
| 11th Sep Silesia Upper Silesia is captured by the Germans |
| 12th Sep All French operations against the Germans are halted |
| 15th Sep Warsaw is surrounded by German troops, Hitler orders it's bombardment |
| 17th Sep Facing the second front, the Polish government decides the defense of the Romanian bridgehead is no longer feasible and orders the evacuation of all troops to neutral Romania |
| 17th Sep Russia gives the order to invade eastern Poland which is undefended |
| 17th Sep Brest Litovsk The Germans capture Brest-Litovsk |
| 17th Sep The Polish government flees to Romania |
| 17th Sep The Soviets carry out their part of the secret appendix of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact dividing Eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence |
| 19th Sep Brest Litovsk The Ref Army & German troops join up at Brest-Litovsk |
| 27th Sep Warsaw Warsaw finaly capitulates, 160,000 are taken prisoner |
| 1st Oct Germany and the Soviet Union completely overrun Poland, although the Polish government never surrendered |
| 1st Oct Many of the exiles subsequently join the recreated Polish Army in allied France, French-mandated Syria, and the United Kingdom |
| 6th Oct Warsaw Resistance in Poland comes to an end |
| 30th Oct Russia formally annexes it's occupied Polish territories |
| 1939 | Smigly-Rydz, Edward | |
| 1st Sep Commands the Polish forces during the German invasion of Poland |
| 9th Sep River Bzura Launches a short lived counter-attack along the River Bzura |
| 16th Sep River Bzura The Bzura "pocxket" is contained by the German Army Group South |
| 18th Sep The Poznan Army collapses |
