{"id":2184,"date":"2025-03-05T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/congress-2026\/?page_id=2184"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:15:05","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/congress-2026\/czechia\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0099cc\">Historical milestones in brief<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">7th Century: Samo&#8217;s Empire, the first known Slavic state<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">9th Century: Duchy of Bohemia emerges<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1198: Kingdom of Bohemia (King Ottokar)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">14th Century: Golden Age under the reign of Charles IV<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1415: Religious and social reformer Jan Hus burned at the stake in Constance as a heretic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1526: The Habsburgs take control of Bohemia, which remains part of the Austrian Empire until the end of World War I<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1918: Establishment of Czechoslovakia (including the Czech lands, Slovakia, and part of present-day western Ukraine)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1938: Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1939: Nazi invasion and establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Slovakia becomes an independent state<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1945: After then end of World War Two, Slovakia is again part of Czechoslovakia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1946-1948: The Czechoslovak Communist Party seizes control, establishing a one-party system<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1968: Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization, ended by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1989: Massive protests against the leading Communist Party; a peaceful transition to the democratic regime often labelled as &#8220;The Velvet Revolution&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1990: First free elections since 1946<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1991: Soviet army forces leaves the country<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1993: Peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia; the Czech Republic and Slovakia become independent states<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1999: The Czech Republic joins the NATO<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2004: The Czech Republic joins the European Union<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0099cc\">Interested in Czech history?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nm.cz\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Museum<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.czechia.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official website of Czechia<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Czech_lands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiki<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Czech-Republic\/People\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britannica<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical milestones in brief 7th Century: Samo&#8217;s Empire, the first known Slavic state 9th Century: Duchy of Bohemia emerges 1198: Kingdom of Bohemia (King Ottokar) 14th Century: Golden Age under the reign of Charles IV 1415: Religious and social reformer Jan Hus burned at the stake in Constance as a heretic 1526: The Habsburgs take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1996,"featured_media":0,"parent":545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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