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Key Dates in the History of Slovakia

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833 and 863
Mojmír I unites the Moravian and Nitra lands (833). Cyril and Methodius arrive in Great Moravia (863).
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894
Death of Svätopluk I, the ruler under whom Great Moravia reached its largest extent.
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907
Battle of Pressburg: the Hungarians defeat a Bavarian army, and Great Moravia ends.
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1000
Foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary, which included the Slovak lands for about 900 years.
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1241
Mongol invasion. King Béla IV then builds stone castles and fortified towns.
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1536 to 1783
Bratislava (Pressburg) is the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary.
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1563 to 1830
Hungarian kings and queens are crowned in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava.
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1713
Execution of the outlaw Juraj Jánošík in Liptovský Mikuláš.
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1787
Anton Bernolák codifies the first Slovak standard, based on the western dialect.
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1843 to 1846
Ľudovít Štúr and his circle codify the standard on the central dialect.
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1848 to 1849
Revolution and the Slovak uprising. The Slovak National Council is formed.
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1861
Memorandum of the Slovak Nation, adopted at a national assembly in Martin.
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1863
Matica slovenská is founded in Martin.
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1874 and 1875
The Hungarian government closes the Slovak grammar schools and Matica slovenská.
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30 May 1918
Pittsburgh Agreement of Czech and Slovak organisations in the United States.
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28 and 30 October 1918
Czechoslovakia is proclaimed in Prague; the Martin Declaration follows on 30 October.
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1920
Treaty of Trianon fixes the borders of Slovakia within Czechoslovakia.
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14 March 1939
The Slovak State is declared under pressure from Germany; it lasts until 1945.
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29 August 1944
Beginning of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica.
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February 1948
The communists take power in Czechoslovakia.
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1968
Prague Spring under Alexander Dubček; invasion of Warsaw Pact troops on 21 August.
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25 March 1988
Candle Demonstration in Bratislava for religious freedom.
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17 November 1989
Student demonstration in Prague starts the Velvet Revolution.
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1 January 1993
Czechoslovakia divides peacefully; the Slovak Republic begins.
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2004
Slovakia joins NATO (29 March) and the European Union (1 May).
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2009
Slovakia adopts the euro on 1 January.
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828
Consecration of the first Christian church on Slovak soil in Nitra by Archbishop Adalram during Prince Pribina's rule.
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846
Prince Rastislav becomes ruler of Great Moravia, pursuing ecclesiastical and political independence from East Frankish hegemony.
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867
Cyril and Methodius journey to Rome; Pope Adrian II approves Old Church Slavonic as an official liturgical language alongside Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
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880
Pope John VIII issues the papal bull 'Industriae tuae', establishing the independent Moravian bishopric at Nitra with Wiching as bishop.
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1238
Banská Štiavnica is granted royal mining town privileges by King Béla IV, becoming Central Europe's silver center.
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1312
Battle of Rozgony (Rozhanovce near Košice): Charles Robert of Anjou defeats the Amadé clan and Matthew Csák's oligarchic forces.
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1328
King Charles Robert founds the royal mint at Kremnica, issuing celebrated gold florins and ducats.
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1465
King Matthias Corvinus founds Universitas Istropolitana (Academia Istropolitana) in Pressburg (Bratislava).
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1526
Battle of Mohács: Ottoman victory leads to the death of King Louis II and the partition of medieval Hungary.
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1635
Cardinal Péter Pázmány establishes Trnava University with faculties of philosophy and theology, expanding to law and medicine.
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1777
Maria Theresa decrees the 'Ratio Educationis', standardizing public education across the Kingdom of Hungary and Slovakia.
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1781
Emperor Joseph II issues the Patent of Toleration, granting civil and religious rights to Protestants and Orthodox Christians.
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10 May 1848
Adoption of 'Žiadosti slovenského národa' (Demands of the Slovak Nation) in Liptovský Mikuláš by Štúr, Hurban, and Hodža.
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16 September 1848
Foundation of the Slovak National Council (Slovenská národná rada) in Vienna to direct the armed national volunteer uprising.
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6–7 June 1861
Adoption of 'Memorandum národa slovenského' at the national assembly in Turčiansky Svätý Martin demanding Slovak territorial autonomy.
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1867
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich) divides the empire into dual realms, leaving Slovakia under Hungarian government control.
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27 October 1907
The Černová Tragedy: Hungarian gendarmes kill 15 parishioners protesting the consecration of their church without Andrej Hlinka.
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22 October 1915
The Cleveland Agreement is signed by Czech and Slovak expatriate organizations in the US demanding a federal union of Czechs and Slovaks.
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4 May 1919
General Milan Rastislav Štefánik dies in an airplane crash near Ivanka pri Dunaji returning to his homeland.
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2 November 1938
The First Vienna Award forces Czechoslovakia to cede southern Slovak territories to Hungary.
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6 October 1944
Czechoslovak and Soviet forces capture the Dukla Pass on the Slovak-Polish border after grueling mountain combat.
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5 April 1945
The Košice Government Program is proclaimed in liberated eastern Slovakia, recognizing Slovaks as an equal nation.
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May 1946
The Democratic Party (Demokratická strana) wins a 62% landslide in free parliamentary elections in Slovakia.
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27 October 1968
Adoption of the Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation, creating the Slovak and Czech Socialist Republics.
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1 September 1992
The Slovak National Council adopts the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, establishing the sovereign state's legal framework.
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29 March and 1 May 2004
Slovakia officially joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (29 March) and the European Union (1 May).

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