Kingdom of Bohemia
monarchy in Central Europe, predecessor of modern Czech Republic
39 dated entries naming Kingdom of Bohemia, drawn from 36 separate years between 1202 CE and 1895 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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13th century
- 1202February/March – Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen, queen of Bohemia (d. 1248)source
- 1205Wenceslaus I ("the One-Eyed"), king of Bohemia (d. 1253)source
- 1211February 2 – Adelaide of Meissen, duchess of Bohemiasource
- 1222Ottokar I of Bohemia reunites Bohemia and Moravia.source
- 1240December 6 – Constance, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1180)source
- 1245Kunigunda of Halych, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1285)source
- 1253September 23 – Wenceslaus I, king of Bohemia (b. 1205)source
- 1265The brewing of Budweiser Budvar beer begins in Bohemia; Budweiser Budvar has been produced continuously there to this day.source
- 1271March 13 – Judith of Habsburg, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1297)source
- 1273October 1 – Rudolf I is elected King of Germany over the rival candidate Ottokar II, king of Bohemia, ending the Great Interregnum. He is the first of many Habsburgs to hold the throne and is crowned in Aachen Cathedral, on October 24. Ottokar refuses to acknowledge Rudolf as the new ruler and is placed under the imperial ban, leading to the outbreak of war in 1276.source
- 1276June – King Rudolf I of Germany declares war on his rival Ottokar II of Bohemia. After 6 months of campaigning, Ottokar surrenders all his lands (including Austria and Styria) except Bohemia and Moravia. Rudolf makes Vienna his capital, marking the beginning of the House of Habsburg, which will last until 1918.source
- 1278August 26 – Battle on the Marchfeld: German-Hungarian forces (some 9,000 men) led by Kings Rudolf I of Germany in alliance with Ladislaus IV of Hungary ("the Cuman"), defeat and kill Ottokar II, ruler of Bohemia. The battle ends the power struggle between Rudolf and Ottokar over the fate of Central Europe. Rudolf's House of Habsburg will continue to rule Austria and other captured territories until the end of World War I in 1918.source
- 1282Rudolf I, king of Bohemia (House of Habsburg) (d. 1307)source
- 1285September 9 – Kunigunda of Halych, queen of Bohemia (b. 1245)source
- 1290October 15 – Anne of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1313)source
- 1292January 20 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1330)source
14th century
- 1305June 21 – At 14 years old, Wenceslaus III becomes ruler of Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland upon the death at age 33 of his father, King Wenceslaus II.source
- 1305June 21 – Wenceslaus II, king of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)source
- 1310December 3 – Prague, capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, is captured and King Henry of Bohemia is deposed by his brother, John of Luxemburg, who will later be known as "John the Blind".source
- 1317Blanche of Valois, queen consort of Germany and Bohemia (d. 1348)source
- 1320Beatrice of Bourbon, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1383)source
- 1320January 20 – Duke Władysław I Łokietek ("Ladislaus the Short") becomes king of a reunited Poland, after receiving the approval from Pope John XXII. He is crowned, along with his wife Jadwiga of Kalisz, at the royal cathedral on Wawel Hill at Kraków. Wladysław's kingdom is surrounded by three hostile neighbors: Brandenburg, the Teutonic Order and Bohemia. Looking for allies, he makes an alliance with Charles I, ruler of Hungary.source
- 1335Congress of Visegrád: The monarchs of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland form an anti-Habsburg alliance.source
- 1388August 15 – Adalbertus Ranconis de Ericinio, Bohemian theologiansource
15th century
- 1403Jan Hus begins preaching Wycliffite ideas in Bohemia.source
- 1419July 30 – The first defenestration of Prague occurs in the Kingdom of Bohemia when a mob led by Jan Želivský storms the Town Hall and kills several members of the town council by throwing them out of a window.source
- 1420November 1 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Vyšehrad – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, fails and is ejected from Bohemia.source
- 1436July 5 – The Hussite Wars effectively end in Bohemia. Sigismund is accepted as King.source
- 1458April 2 – George of Poděbrady (King Jiří z Poděbrad) receives the Crown of Saint Wenceslas at his coronation at the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague as King of Bohemia.source
- 1458February 27 – George of Poděbrady is elected king of Bohemia.source
- 1459April 25 – The Treaty of Eger is signed by representatives of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Electorate of Saxony, setting a border that remains more than 500 years later as the border between the Czech Republic and Germany as running along the main ridge of the Ore Mountains from Eger to the River Elbe.source
- 1475February 27 – At Racibórz (now in Poland, but at the time under the control of the Kingdom of Bohemia), the Bohemian King Matyáš Korvín arrests the Duke of Gliwice, Jan IV of Oświęcim and holds him prisoner until Jan relinquishes half of his lands to Bohemian control.source
- 1478March 28 – The initial draft of the Treaty of Brno, between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia, is agreed upon by envoys from both kingdoms, subject to modifications.source
16th century
- 1562September 22 – Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds Ferdinand as ruler of the Kingdom of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic).source
- 1566June 10 – In Znojmo (in the modern-day Czech Republic), Wilhelm von Rosenberg, commander of the Army of the Kingdom of Bohemia, begins raising an army to fight an expected invasion by the Ottoman Empire.source
17th century
- 1620April 1 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and former King of Bohemia, sends a two-month ultimatum directing King Frederick of Bohemia (who has usurped the throne in the modern-day Czech Republic) to leave Bohemia by June 1. Frederick refuses to depart his capital at Prague.source
- 1634February 25 – Rebel Scots and Irish soldiers assassinate Bohemian military leader Albrecht von Wallenstein at Cheb.source