{"slug": "king-of-poland", "label": "King of Poland", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Poland", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 20, "years": 19, "span": [1310, 1795], "span_label": ["1310 CE", "1795 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "grand-duke-of-lithuania", "label": "Grand Duke of Lithuania", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "krakow", "label": "Kraków", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "sigismund-i-the-old", "label": "Sigismund I the Old", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "russian-empire", "label": "Russian Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "peter-the-great", "label": "Peter the Great", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "swedish-empire", "label": "Swedish Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sigismund-ii-augustus", "label": "Sigismund II Augustus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "denmark-norway", "label": "Denmark-Norway", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "polishlithuanian-commonwealth", "label": "Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "prussia", "label": "Prussia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "habsburg-monarchy", "label": "Habsburg monarchy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, dies and is succeeded by his younger brother, King Henry of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia and the nominal King of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#April_–_June", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1386, "year_label": "1386 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania is crowned Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland, beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359789728#January–March", "title": "1386", "revid": 1359789728, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1434, "year_label": "1434 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The coronation of Wladyslaw III as King of Poland takes place at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335073150#July–September", "title": "1434", "revid": 1335073150, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1507, "year_label": "1507 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – Sigismund I the Old is formally crowned King of Poland, at a ceremony in Kraków.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367240730#January–March", "title": "1507", "revid": 1367240730, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1518, "year_label": "1518 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – The widowed Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, marries Milanese noblewoman Bona Sforza in Wawel Cathedral and she is crowned as Queen consort of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362000593#April–June", "title": "1518", "revid": 1362000593, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1548, "year_label": "1548 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Sigismund II Augustus succeeds his father, Sigismund I the Old, as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656469#April–June", "title": "1548", "revid": 1366656469, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1557, "year_label": "1557 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, issues an edict against Protestants, at the urging of the Archbishop Mikołaj Dzierzgowski, Primate of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365955110#January–March", "title": "1557", "revid": 1365955110, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1575, "year_label": "1575 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – The Sejm of Poland meets in Warsaw to elect a new King of Poland after King Henryk has failed to return from France, and considers 11 candidates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362481402#October–December", "title": "1575", "revid": 1362481402, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1633, "year_label": "1633 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – the formal coronation of Władysław IV Vasa as King of Poland takes place at the cathedral in Kraków. He had been elected as king on November 8.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369169348#January–March", "title": "1633", "revid": 1369169348, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1648, "year_label": "1648 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – Wladyslaw IV Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies after a reign of 15 years. The throne remains vacant for six months until Wladyslaw's younger half-brother, John II Casimir Vasa, is elected by Poland's Parliament.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346163846#April–June", "title": "1648", "revid": 1346163846, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1656, "year_label": "1656 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland, crowns the Black Madonna of Częstochowa as Queen and Protector of Poland in the cathedral of Lwów, after the miraculous saving of the Jasna Góra Monastery during the Deluge, an event which changed the course of the Second Northern War. The King swears a vow, the Lwów Oath, pledging to protect Poland's people from being conquered again.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372048661#April–June", "title": "1656", "revid": 1372048661, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 29", "text": "September 29 – The formal coronation of Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki as King of Poland (and Grand Duke of Lithuania) takes place in Kraków.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366419040#July–September", "title": "1669", "revid": 1366419040, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1699, "year_label": "1699 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – The Treaty of Preobrazhenskoye, negotiated by Johann Patkul, is signed at a palace of the Tsar of Russia Peter the Great, and representatives of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony to provide for the partition of Swedish Empire between Saxony, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Kingdoms of Denmark-Norway and the Russian Empire. The attack on Sweden, which takes place on February 22, starts the Great Northern War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560904#October–December", "title": "1699", "revid": 1369560904, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1700, "year_label": "1700 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18 (August 7 O.S.) – The Peace of Travendal is concluded between the Swedish Empire, Denmark–Norway and Holstein-Gottorp in Traventhal. On the same day, Augustus II, King of Poland, and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, enter the war against Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366570351#July–September", "title": "1700", "revid": 1366570351, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 – Great Northern War – King Charles XII of Sweden forces the election of his ally Stanisław Leszczyński as King of Poland, in place of Augustus II the Strong.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#July–September", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1705, "year_label": "1705 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 24", "text": "September 24 (O.S.) – Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned as King of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355353320#July–September", "title": "1705", "revid": 1355353320, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1733, "year_label": "1733 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – The election of Augustus III, to succeed his father as King of Poland, sparks the War of the Polish Succession.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358761924#October–December", "title": "1733", "revid": 1358761924, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1733, "year_label": "1733 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – Stanislas Leszczynski, who had been King of Poland from 1704 to 1709 until being driven from the throne by King Augustus II, is returned to office by the vote of the Sejm. Russia and Austria protest the election, since King Stanislaus is backed by France and Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358761924#July–September", "title": "1733", "revid": 1358761924, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Augustus III, the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, declares his candidacy to become the next Holy Roman Emperor, but loses in September to Francis, Duke of Tuscany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353016128#January–March", "title": "1745", "revid": 1353016128, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1795, "year_label": "1795 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – The Third Partition of Poland is made, dividing the territory of the Commonwealth of Poland between the Habsburg monarchy, Prussia and the Russian Empire. On November 25, Stanisław August Poniatowski formally abdicates as last King of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352627752#July–December", "title": "1795", "revid": 1352627752, "section": "Events › July–December"}}]}