Portal:Czech Republic/Selected anniversaries

1 January 1993 – Czechoslovakia dissolves, resulting in the establishment of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
1 January 2000 – 14 new regions are established
4 January 1896 – The Czech Philharmonic (pictured) plays its first concert
6 January 1977 – Charter 77 is published, with the names of 242 signatories
21 January 1930 – The nation's first traffic light is installed at the junction of Wenceslas Square with Jindřišská and Vodičková streets

2 February 1993 – Václav Havel takes office as the first President of the Czech Republic
5 February 1796 – The Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts is founded, later to become known as the National Gallery in Prague
8 February 1993 – The Czech koruna (pictured) becomes the national currency
11 February 1929 – The lowest temperature is recorded in Litvínovice, where it reaches -42.2°C
22 February 1998 – The Czech Republic ice hockey team wins gold in the 1998 Winter Olympics

2 March 1978 – Vladimír Remek becomes the first man in space from a country other than the United States and USSR
6 March 1645 – One of the bloodiest battles of the Thirty Years' War, the Battle of Jankau takes place 50km from Prague
16 March 1939 – The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established following the end of the Second Czechoslovak Republic
29 March 1896 – The first Prague derby is played between Sparta and Slavia. The match ends 0–0
30 March 1968 – Ludvík Svoboda (pictured) is elected President of Czechoslovakia

5 April 1937 – Prague Václav Havel Airport (pictured) opens as Prague Ruzyně Airport
7 April 1348 – Charles University in Prague is founded
17 April 1969 – First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubček, is replaced by Gustáv Husák
18 April 1920 – The first parliamentary elections are held in Czechoslovakia
26 April 1945 – The Red Army liberates the city of Brno at the end of World War II

1 May 2004 – The Czech Republic joins the European Union
9 May 1974 – The Prague Metro begins operation
14 May 1855 – The book The Grandmother by Božena Němcová is released
27 May 1942 – An assassination attempt (pictured) on acting Reichsprotektor Reinhardt Heydrich in Prague as part of Operation Anthropoid results in him dying on 4 June – the villages of Lidice and Ležáky are razed to the ground in response
29 May 1975 – Gustáv Husák becomes President of Czechoslovakia, remaining in office until 1989

2 June 1541 – A fire destroys much of Malá Strana and the northern part of Prague Castle
10 June 1348 – The foundation stone of Karlštejn Castle (pictured) is laid
20 June 1976 – The Czechoslovakia national football team win UEFA Euro 1976
23 June 1955 – The first national Spartakiad is held, marking ten years after the nation's liberation at the end of World War II
30 June 1945 – State security service StB is established

1 July 1991 – The Warsaw Pact is dissolved in Prague
6 July 1415 – Church reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake, marked by a state holiday since 1925.
9 July 1357 – Charles IV reportedly lays the first stone at the Charles Bridge (pictured) in Prague
29 July 1817 – Foundation of Moravské zemské muzeum in Brno under the name Františkovo muzeum, the second-oldest museum in the country
30 July 1419 – The first of the Defenestrations of Prague: a group led by priest Jan Želivský go to Prague's New Town Hall, where they throw councillors out of the windows, starting the Hussite Wars

14 August 2002 – Water in the Vltava reaches peak level during the 2002 European floods, in which 17 people in the country die and around 200,000 are evacuated from their homes
15 August 1744 – Frederick the Great leads a Prussian invasion of Bohemia as part of the War of the Austrian Succession
20 August 1968 – The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia takes place in response to the Prague Spring reform movement
26 August 1992 – Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar meet at Villa Tugendhat and agree to the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
28 August 1867 – The Bohemian Crown Jewels (replica of the Crown of Saint Wenceslas pictured) are returned to Prague from Vienna

2 September 1347 – Charles IV is crowned King of Bohemia
11 September 1951 – Opponents of Czechoslovakia's communist regime escape into West Germany on the Freedom Train
23 September 1875 – The first of the trams in Prague (Tatra T3 pictured) gets underway, under the power of horse
28 September 935 – Death of St Wenceslaus, marked in the Czech Republic by a national holiday since 2000
30 September 1938 – Leaders of Nazi Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, permitting Germany to annex portions of Czechoslovakia

5 October 1842 – The first batch of Pilsner Urquell beer is produced
6 October 1923 – Foundation of Czechoslovak Airlines, now known as Czech Airlines
9 October 1410 – First mention of the Prague astronomical clock (pictured)
24 October 1526 – Ferdinand I becomes King of Bohemia, starting a period of nearly 400 years of Habsburg rule over Czech lands
28 October 1918 – The independent state of Czechoslovakia is founded in Prague

14 November 1960 – The deadliest rail disaster in Czech history takes place in Eastern Bohemia, resulting in 118 deaths
14 November 1918 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (pictured) becomes the first President of Czechoslovakia
17 November 1939 – Nazi Germany storms Czech universities, executing nine students and professors, later commemorated as International Students' Day
17 November 1989 – The Velvet Revolution starts in Prague, culminating in the end of 41 years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia
24 November 1966 – The deadliest air disaster in Czechoslovakia takes place near Bratislava, killing all 82 on board

11 December 1949 – The Číhošť miracle takes place: during a church service of Josef Toufar in the village of Číhošť, the crucifix moves several times over the pulpit, prompting an intervention by the StB
15 December 1230 – Wenceslaus I succeeds Ottokar I as King of Bohemia
16 December 1992 – The Czech National Council adopts the Constitution of the Czech Republic
18 December 1935 – Edvard Beneš is elected second President of Czechoslovakia
22 December 1966 – Construction begins on the Stalin Monument (pictured), the largest representation of Stalin in the world

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