Czech Republic

Timeline. Through history.

If we don’t understand the past, how can we understand our present and future? To truly absorb, appreciate, and reflect on the country we are visiting, we need to look at pivotal moments in history. Begin your journey through the ages now.

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921-929 Prince Wenceslas: defender of Czech Nation against Germans
1346-1378 Emperor Charles
1526-1867 Habsburg Empire
1346-1378 Jews limited to Ghetto
1526-1609 Maharal – Golem Myth
1576-1612 Rudolph II – Golden Age
1780-1790 Joseph II – End of laws humiliating Jews
1918 Formation of Czechoslovakia
1919 President Masaryk grants full rights to Jews
1919-1935 President Masaryk
1941-1945 139,000 Jews sent to Terezin Concentration Camp
May 1942 Assassination of Heydrich – Wave of terror
1948-1989 Communist Rule
1989 Velvet Revolution
1992 Break up of Czechoslovakia

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