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The Story of Lithuania
By Thomas G. Chase

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1946

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p345 Chronological Table

997	Adalbert of Prague is martyred by the Old Prussians.
1009	Bruno of Magdeburg is martyred by the Yatvegians.
1044	Yaroslav of Kiev invades Lithuanian territories.
1132	Mstislav of Kiev invades Lithuanian territories.
1196	Roman of Volhynia invades Lithuanian territories.
1198	Lithuanians defeat the forces of Novgorod and Polock at Velikie Luki.
1202	Establishment of the Order of the Sword on the Baltic shores.
1220	Lithuanian-Volhynian treaty.
1225 (c.)	Unification of Lithuania under Mindaugas.
1230	Arrival of the Teutonic Knights on the Baltic.
1235	Daniel of Volhynia recognizes Mindaugas as the sole ruler of the Lithuanian state.
1236	Lithuanians crush the Livonian Order near Saule.
1242	Lithuanians defeated by Alexander Nevsky near Novgorod.
1251	Conversion of Mindaugas to Christianity.
1253	Coronation of Mindaugas as Christian king.
1260	Rebellion of Letts and Old Prussians against the German crusaders.
1263	Assassination of Mindaugas.
1280	Teutonic Knights complete the conquest of the Old Prussians.
1283	The Yatvegians are annihilated.
1298	Lithuanian troops garrison Riga.
1309	Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights transfers his seat to Marienburg.
1316	Accession of Grand Duke Gediminas.
1320	Vitebsk becomes part of the Lithuanian state.
1323	Gediminas negotiates with the West.
1325	Lithuanian alliance with Ladislas I of Poland.
1326	Lithuanians take possession of Minsk.
1340	War with Poland over Volhynia.
1345	Kestutis overthrows Jaunutis.
1348	Lithuanian victory over the Germans at Streva, near Kaunas.
1355	Bryansk and Chernigov territories taken by Lithuania.
1358	Lithuanians demand the restoration of Aistian territories occupied by the Germans in Old Prussia and Latvia.
1361	Kestutis escapes from German prison.
1362	Algirdas defeats the Tatars on the Sinyukha and extends boundaries of Lithuanian state to the Black Sea.
p346 1368	Algirdas lays siege to Moscow for the first time.
1370	Algirdas lays siege to Moscow for the second time.
1372	Algirdas lays siege to Moscow for the third time.
1377	Accession of Jogaila.
1380	Jogaila's secret treaty with the Teutonic Knights.
1382	Assassination of Kestutis.
1385	Jogaila's Pact of Kreva with Poland.
1386	Jogaila's coronation as Polish king.
1387	Christianization of the Lithuanian Highlanders.
1392	Vytautas becomes the Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1399	Vytautas is defeated by Timur at Vorskla.
1401	The Vilnius-Radom Pact.
1410	Lithuanians and Poles under Vytautas and Jogaila defeat the Teutonic Knights at Grunewald.
1413	The Pact of Horodlo.
1414	Christianization of the Lithuanian Lowlanders.
1422	The Treaty of Melno.
1429	The Conference of Luck.
1430	Vytautas' death.
1431	Lithuanian-Polish war.
1432	Grand Duke Svitrigaila is overthrown.
1435	The battle of Ukmerge.
1439	The Church Union of Florence.
1440	The Election of Casimir.
1447	Casimir becomes Polish king.
1449	Lithuania's treaty with Muscovy.
1452	Svitrigaila returns Volhynia to Lithuania.
1454	Revolt of the Prussian League against the Teutonic Knights.
1461	Lithuanian nobles demand Casimir make Vilnius his permanent residence.
1468	Codification of penal laws in Lithuania.
1471	Casimir's son, Ladislas, becomes king of Bohemia.
1490	Ladislas becomes king of Hungary.
1492	Alexander elected Grand Duke. Recognition accorded the Grand Ducal Council.
1494	Treaty between Alexander and Ivan of Muscovy.
1499	Ivan attacks Lithuania.
1501	Alexander becomes Polish king.
1506	Michael Glinski, Lithuanian Field Hetman, defeats Tatars at Kleck. Sigismund I elected Lithuanian Grand Duke. Poles elect him king of Poland.
1507	Basil III of Muscovy declares war on Lithuania.
1508	Lithuanian victory over the Muscovites at Orsha.
p347 1514	Muscovy captures Smolensk. Constantine Ostrogski defeats Muscovites at Orsha.
1525	Secularization of the Teutonic Knights.
1528	Land census in Lithuania.
1529	First Lithuanian Statute.
1535‑6	Beginning of Protestant Revolt in Lithuania.
1544	Succession of Sigismund II Augustus to Lithuanian throne.
1548	Election of Sigismund II Augustus to Polish throne.
1557	The Land Reform Act. Mutual Assistance Pact with Livonia.
1559	Sigismund II Augustus pledges to defend Livonia against Muscovy. Beginning of war with Muscovy over Livonia.
1561	Secularization of the Livonian Order. Livonia incorporated with Lithuania.
1563	The Diet of Warsaw.
1564	Administrative Reforms in Lithuania.
1564	Radvila the Brown defeats the Muscovites at Ula.
1569	Creation of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth at Lublin.
1570	The Jesuits come to Lithuania.
1573	The Convention of Warsaw.
1573	The Election of Henry Valois.
1575	The Election of Stephen Bathory.
1579	The University of Vilnius.
1581	Supreme Court of Appeals established.
1582	The Truce of Zapoli.
1587	The Election of Sigismund Vasa.
1588	The Third Lithuanian Statute.
1594	Sigismund Vasa crowned king of Sweden.
1596	The Church Union of Brest.
1600	Wars with Sweden.
1605	Katkevicius' victory over the Swedes at Kirkholm.
1606	Zebrzydowski's Rebellion.
1611	Lithuania recovers Smolensk from Muscovy.
1629	Truce of Altmark with Sweden.
1632	Election of Ladislas Vasa.
1634	Truce of Polianovka with Muscovy.
1635	Truce of Stumdorf with Sweden.
1648	Cossack Revolt under Bogdan Chmielnicki.
1654	The Muscovite Invasion of Lithuania.
1655	The Swedish Invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic.
1660	The Treaty of Oliva with Sweden.
1667	The Treaty of Andrussovo with Muscovy.
1668	The Abdication of John Casimir.
1669	The Election of Michael Wisniowiecki.
p348 1673	Amendment to the Union of Lublin: every third diet of the Republic transferred to Gardinas, Lithuania.
1674	Election of John Sobieski.
1697	Election of Frederick Augustus II. The Coaequatio Iurium.
1700	The Lithuanian Civil War. The Great Northern War.
1701	Charles XII invades Lithuania.
1704	Deposition of Frederick Augustus II.
1710	Return of Frederick Augustus II.
1733	Election of Frederick Augustus III.
1764	Election of Stanislas Poniatowski.
1767	Confederation of Radom.
1768	Confederation of Bar.
1772	The First Partitions of Poland-Lithuania.
1788	Beginning of the Four Years' Diet.
1792	Confederation of Targowica.
1793	The Second Partitions of Poland-Lithuania. The Diet of Gardinas.
1794	The Polish-Lithuanian Revolt.
1795	The Final Partitions of Poland-Lithuania.
1806	Publication of Xavier Bauza's The Origins of the Lithuanian Nation and Its Language.
1807	Napoleon's Treaty with Russia at Tilsit.
1812	Napoleon's Invasion of Lithuania.
1815	The Congress of Vienna.
1827	The separate Lithuanian corps dissolved by Tsar Nicholas II.
1831	The Insurrection of 1831.
1832	The University of Vilnius is closed.
1839	The Lithuanians are forbidden to use national costumes.
1842	The Theological Institute of Vilnius is transferred to St. Petersburg.
1845	Publication of Bishop Valancius' Achievements of the Lithuanian Highlanders and Lowlanders.
1846	Publication of Bishop Valancius' Episcopal See of Samogitia.
1861	Tsar Alexander II emancipates the serfs.
1863	The Insurrection of 1863.
1865	Governor-General Constantine Kaufman forbids the use of Lithuanian language in Latin characters.
1875	The massacre of Tytuvenai.
1876‑7	Peter Vileisis obtains permission to publish several Lithuanian booklets.
1886	The massacre of Kestaiciai.
1893	The massacre of Kraziai.
p349 1902	A. Maciejauskas wins lawsuit against the Russian police in Lithuania in reference to the use of the Lithuanian language.
1903	Paul Visinskis wins an appeal against the Russian police in reference to the use of the Lithuanian language.
1904	Tsar Nicholas II restores freedom of the Lithuanian press.
1905	The Lithuanian National Diet at Vilnius. Proclamation of Revolt against the Russian rule.
1906	Seven Lithuanians become deputies to the first Russian Duma.
1907	Seven Lithuanians become deputies to the second Russian Duma.
1907	Four Lithuanians become deputies to the third Russian Duma.
1912	Four Lithuanians become deputies to the fourth Russian Duma.
1914	World War I. Lithuanians create the Central Committee of Relief for War Sufferers.
1915	Germans occupy Lithuania.
1917	Supreme Council of Lithuanian Nation created at Voronezh by Lithuanian refugees in Russia.
1917 (Sept.)	Lithuanian National Assembly at Vilnius demands the restoration of an independent Lithuanian state and forms a Lithuanian National Council.
1918 (Feb.)	Declaration of Lithuanian Independence.
1918 (March)	Russo-German treaty at Brest-Litovsk.
1918 (Nov.)	Armistice of World War I.
1918 (Dec.)	Bolsheviks invade eastern borderlands of the Lithuanian Republic.
1919 (Jan.)	National Conference at Kaunas.
1919 (March)	Poles invade Lithuania.
1919 (April)	Poles occupy Lithuanian capital, Vilnius; Pilsudski issues proclamation to the Lithuanian people.
1919 (April)	Anthony Smetona becomes the first president of the Lithuanian Republic.
1919 (July)	Treaty of Moscow with Russia.
1919 (July)	Troops of Col. Avalov Bermondt invade northeastern Lithuania.
1919 (Aug.)	Secret branch of "The Polish Military Organization" suppressed in Lithuania.
1919 (Dec.)	Forces of Avalov Bermondt expelled from Lithuania.
1919 (Dec.)	Curzon line leaves Vilnius and Gardinas to Lithuania.
1920 (May)	Constituent Assembly meets at Kaunas.
1920 (July)	Lithuanians recover Vilnius.
1920 (Oct.)	Two days after the Polish-Lithuanian Agreement of Suvalkai, the Poles seize Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
1920 (Nov.)	Commission of League of Nations intervenes to end hostilities between the Poles and the Lithuanians.
p350 1921 (April-Sept.)	Polish-Lithuanian Conferences over Vilnius dispute. State of "latent war" continues.
1922 (Jan.)	League of Nations Council states that it is impossible to recognize validity of elections held by the Poles in Vilnius.
1922 (Jan.)	Restoration of Memel (Klaipeda) to Lithuania.
1922 (March)	Land Reform Law.
1922 (July)	The United States of America recognizes Lithuania de jure.
1922 (Aug.)	Bank of Lithuania established.
1922 (Aug.)	Permanent Constitution adopted.
1922 (Dec.)	Alexander Stulginskis elected second president of the Republic of Lithuania.
1924 (May)	Signing of the Memel Convention.
1926 (June)	Casimir Grinius becomes the third president of the Lithuanian Republic.
1926 (Sept.)	Treaty with Moscow negotiated by Slezevicius.
1926 (Dec.)	Grinius is overthrown. Smetona returns as the fourth president of the Lithuanian Republic.
1928 (May)	New Constitution is promulgated.
1935 (March)	Trial of 122 Nazis at Kaunas.
1935	Negotiations between Lithuania and Poland to end the state of "latent war."
1938 (March)	Polish Ultimatum to Lithuania.
1938 (May)	New Lithuanian Constitution still claims Vilnius as the Lithuanian capital.
1939 (March)	Germany seizes Memel (Klaipeda).
1939 (Sept.)	Outbreak of World War II.
1939 (Oct.)	Lithuania is forced to enter into a "Mutual Assistance Pact" with Russia.
1940 (June)	Russian Ultimatum to Lithuania. First Russian Invasion of Lithuania.
1940 (Aug.)	"Incorporation" of Lithuania as the 14th Republic of the Soviet Union.
1941 (June)	Lithuanian Revolt against the Russian regime.
1941 (June)	German occupation of Lithuania.
1944 (June)	Second Russian Invasion.

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