9th Century The Wislanie (a Slavonic tribe) inhabit a fortified town on the Wawel

1000 Krakow's bishopric is founded

1025 Boleslaw the Brave crowned as the first King of Poland

mid-11th C Wawel becomes the residence of the Polish kings

1241 A trumpeter is shot by an arrow while warning of the Tartar raid; a Krakow raftsman kills the Tartar Khan

1257 Krakow receives its charter and the Old Town's streets are laid out

1257 Krakow receives its charter and the Old Town's streets are laid out by the duke Bolesław V Wstydliwy, his mother Grzymisława and his wife Kunegunda

13th C The Salt-Works Castle is built in Wieliczka

1333-70 Reign of King Kazimierz Wielki (the Great)

1335 Charter for the Town of Kazimierz is granted

1364 King Kazimierz III the Great (1333-70) founds the Krakow Academy; Council of Monarchs

1491-95 Copernicus studies at Jagiellonian University

1495 Jews moved to Kazimierz ghetto

1501-06 Reign of King Alexander

1504-36 Wawel Castle assumes its present shape

1506-48 Reign of King Sigismund I the Old

1548-72 Reign of King Sigismund II Augustus

1569 Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania unite as the Republic of Two Nations

1572 King Sigismund II August dies heirless - end of Jagiellonian dynasty; beginning of Polish Baroque period

1609 King Sigismund III Wasa leaves to take up residence in Warsaw

1655-58 Swedes invade Poland and pillage Krakow

1683 Jan Sobieski breaks Turks siege of Vienna

1703-21 Swedes at war with Poland again

1772 First partition of Poland

1776 Austrian occupation of Krakow

1794 General Tadeusz Kosciuszko incites revolution

1795 After the third partition of Poland, Wawel is used as an Austrian barracks for almost a century

1815-46 The region enjoys limited autonomy as a free city - the Republic of Krakow

1846 Krakow is incorporated into Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia

1868 Galicia is granted autonomy within the empire

1905 Austrian army departs from Wawel Castle

6 Sep 1939 Nazis invade the city

1940 Planning for Auschwitz concentration camp begins

Mar 1941 Nazis relocate Jews to ghetto in Podgorze district

Jun 1942 Mass deportations to concentration camps begin

Nov 1942 Labour camp is set up in Plaszow

14 Mar 1943 All of those still in the ghetto are murdered or transported to camps

1945 Auschwitz is abandoned as Soviet Army approaches

1981 Solidarity movement begins; martial law is imposed

1989 Free elections mark the end of the communist regime

1999 Poland joins NATO

2000 Krakow is one of the nine European Cities of Culture

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