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| 0973 | Otto I the Great |  |
| Warsaw Boleslas I accepts the suzerainty of Otto I |
| 1138 | Boleslaw III |  |
| Boleslaw III divides his realm among his sons & begins 150 yrs of dynastic struggle |
| 1243 | Boleslaw V | |
| Boleslaw V becomes the uncontested master of Little Poland |
| 1413 | Wladyslaw II Jagiello | |
| Horodlo The treaty of Union is established |
| 1592 | Sigismund III Vasa |  |
| Sigismund III Vasa creates a union over Poland & Sweden |
| 1655 | Charles X Gustavus | |
| Charles X is elected King of Poland-Lithuania by the Sejim to regain the Ukraine |
| 1655 | John II Casimir | |
| Charles X is elected King of Poland-Lithuania by the Sejim to regain the Ukraine |
| 1717 | Augustus III | |
| Warsaw At the "Dumb Diet" summoned to Warsaw, Poland becomes a Russian Protecorate |
| 1762 | Peter III |  |
| 5th Aug Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland |
| 1764 | Catherine II the Great | |
| Warsaw Secures the election of her nominee King Stanislas Poniatowski to the throne of Poland |
| 1768 | Catherine II the Great | |
| Warsaw Stanislas Poniatowski is elected King but Prince Repnin imposes Catherine's rule |
| 1793 | Frederick William II | |
| 23rd Jan Prussia takes Danzig, Thorn & Great Poland |
| 23rd Jan Russia takes most of Lithuania & western Ukraine during the 2nd partition of Poland |
| 1795 | Catherine II the Great | |
| 24th Oct St Petersburg Russia, Austria and Prussia hold a convention in Petersburg to finalize the 3rd division of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic |
| 1795 | Frederick William II | |
| Takes part in the 3rd partition of Poland |
| 1797 | Catherine II the Great | |
| 15th Jan St Petersburg Russia, Prussia and Austria sign an act that terminates the Lithuanian-Polish state |
| 1863 | Alexander II | |
| Vistula Region At the Congress of Vienna Poland becomes a Russian Province, the Vistula Region |
| 1916 | Beseler, Hans von | |
| 5th Nov Proclaims the Polish Congress of State for military & economic resources for Germany |
| 1916 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| 5th Nov The Central Powers establish Poland as a semi-autonomous client state |
| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 3rd Mar Germany and Austria force Soviet Russia to sign the Peace of Brest, which calls for the establishment of 5 independent countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and w |
| 1921 | Ponikowski, Antonin | |
| Riga Under the treaty of Riga Russia gains the eastern third of Poland |
| 1939 | Frank, Hans | |
| 26th Oct Krakow Appointed Governor General of Poland, of the annexed Polish territories |
| 8th Nov Krakow Takes up post as Governor-General |
| 1939 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 1st Sep Berlin The invasion begins one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and ends October 6, 1939, with Germany and the Soviet Union occupying the entirety of Poland |
| 28th Sep Moscow Ribbentrop & Molotov meet & split Poland in 2 |
| 1939 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| 28th Sep Moscow Ribbentrop & Molotov meet & split Poland in 2 |
| 28th Sep Moscow Russia is given land east of the Narew-Bug-San line |
| 1939 | Ribbentrop, Joachim von | |
| 28th Sep The Germans are given land between the Vistula & western Bug |
| 1939 | Sikorski, Wladyslaw | |
| 28th Sep Moscow Ribbentrop & Molotov meet & split Poland in 2 |
| 30th Oct Russia formally annexes it's occupied Polish territories |
| 1939 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 23rd Aug The Nazi-Soviet Pact gives Russia eastern Poland, Finland & Baltic States |
| 28th Sep Moscow Ribbentrop & Molotov meet & split Poland in 2 |
| 30th Oct Russia formally annexes it's occupied Polish territories |
| 1940 | Himmler, Heinrich | |
| Issues a directive to breakup what remains of Poland & its races |
| 1943 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Dec Tehran The 3 powers at the Tehran Conference move Poland's frontiers westward |
| 1945 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 29th April Churchill appeals to Stalin not to unilaterally impose Russian rule on Poland |
| 1992 | Pawlak, Waldemar | |
| Russian troops start to leave Poland |
