History OF Prague

History of Prague

870 - Building of the famous Prague Castle

926 - Building of St. Vitus rotunda within the Prague Castle compund.

10th century - construction of the Vysehrad Castle on the Vltava bank on the opposite side of the river.

965 - Prague first mentioned in a manuscript by Ibrahim Ibn Jakub, a Jewish merchant.

973 - Establishment of the Prague bishopric.

1085 - Prague becomes the offcial residence of the first Bohemian king Vratislav I

1172 - Building of the Juditas Bridge, only the second stone bridge that was built in Central Europe.

1230 - Construction of the Old Town

1257 - Establishement of the Lesser Town

1310 - 1346 - John of Luxembourg takes control as the king of Bohemia

1320 - building of the Hradcany

1338 - construction completed of the Old Town Hall which increases the importance of the city.

1344 - Prague bishopric upgraded to archbishopric, beginning with St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert Cathedral (

1346-1378 - Charles IV period - Prague becomes the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom and of the Holy Roman Empire

1348 - Establishment of the New Town and the building of the first university in Central Europe (Charles University)

1419-1437 - attempts of the church clergy to introduce reforms in the church becomes the Hussite revolutionary movement

1526 - Habsburg Dynasty ascends the Bohemian throne (until 1918)

1583-1611 - Rudolf II inaugerated the king of Bohemia, and Prague becomes the emperors residence as well as the centre for social and cultural life.

1618-1620 - The defeat of the Czech nobles uprising; Czech language and Czech national consciousness begins to lessen

1784 - The year for the unification of the four independent Prague neigborhoods (Hradcany, Lesser Town, Old Town and New Town)

1784-1848 - Czech national revival, beginning of the industrial revolution, establishment of Czech institutions

1918 - Independence of Czechoslovakia, Prague becomes the new state capital

1939-1945 - occupation by the Nazi Germany

1945 - the Prague uprising, liberation of Prague by Soviet Republic's army

1948 - seizure of power by KSC after the February putsch

1968 - Prague Spring - an attempt to reform socialism, intervention of 5 states of the Warsaw Pact

1989 - The so called "Velvet Revolution", Vaclav Havel elected the president of Czechlosovakia

1993 - January 1 - Formation of the independent Czech Republic -dividing Slovakia and Czeck Republic.

1993 - January 26 - Vaclav Havel elected the first president of the independent Czech Republic

1999 - March 12 - the Czech Republic becomes a NATO member.

2004 - May 1st- entry of the Czech Republic into EU