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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Poland with the correct year: Mieszko's dominion was formally reconstituted as a medieval kingdom in ______ by his son Bolesław I the Brave, known for his milita…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Poland with the correct year: Significant internal reforms were introduced in the late 18th century, such as Europe's first Constitution of 3 May ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Piast dynasty with the correct year: The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in ______ with the death of King Casimir III the Great.
  4. Complete the sentence about Piast dynasty with the correct year: The Piast position was decisively enfeebled by an era of fragmentation following the ______ Testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth.
  5. Complete the sentence about Piast dynasty with the correct year: The Masovian branch of the Piasts became extinct with the death of Duke Janusz III in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Bolesław I the Brave with the correct year: In the summer of ______, in one of his expeditions, Bolesław I captured Kiev, where he installed his son-in-law Sviatopolk I as…
  7. Complete the sentence about Casimir III the Great with the correct year: Through considerable military and diplomatic effort, Ladislaus managed to take control of a large part of the Polish lands and…
  8. Complete the sentence about Casimir III the Great with the correct year: A sign of his growing political importance was the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to the Hungarian king Charles I of Hungar…
  9. Complete the sentence about Władysław II Jagiełło with the correct year: The dynasty ruled both states until ______, and became one of the most influential dynasties in late medieval and early modern…
  10. Complete the sentence about Jadwiga of Poland with the correct year: Jadwiga was crowned "King" in Poland's capital, Kraków, on 16 October ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Jadwiga of Poland with the correct year: Jogaila, now styled in Polish as Władysław II Jagiełło, was crowned King of Poland on 4 March ______ as Jadwiga's co-ruler.
  12. Complete the sentence about Union of Krewo with the correct year: Grand Duke Algirdas died in ______ and left the throne to his son Jogaila.
  13. Complete the sentence about Union of Krewo with the correct year: The Treaty of Dubysa of ______ with the Knights included provisions of Jogaila's conversion within four years.
  14. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. ______ in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  15. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: Purely religious since ______, the Teutonic Order still confers limited honorary knighthoods.
  16. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: In ______, they took over a hospital in the city in order to take care of the sick and began to describe themselves as the Hospital of…
  17. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: Konrad was unable to stop the Prussian raids and the Dobrzyń knights he had gathered for this purpose were defeated, in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Teutonic Order with the correct year: So, in coordination with the Holy Roman Empire and Konrad, the Grand Master Hermann von Salza and his Teutonic Order arrived in the re…
  19. Complete the sentence about Jagiellonian dynasty with the correct year: In ______ the Union of Krewo was signed between Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, the last pagan…
  20. Complete the sentence about Sigismund I the Old with the correct year: Sigismund was born in the town of Kozienice in ______ as the fifth son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria.
  21. Complete the sentence about Sigismund I the Old with the correct year: Alexander inherited Poland following John I Albert's sudden death in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Sigismund I the Old with the correct year: Hence, Sigismund's reign only began when he succeeded Alexander to both titles in ______ at the age of 39.
  23. Complete the sentence about Sigismund II Augustus with the correct year: Sigismund II Augustus married three times; his first wife, Elizabeth of Austria, died in ______ at just 18.
  24. Complete the sentence about Sigismund II Augustus with the correct year: Following the death of his sister Anna in ______, the Jagiellonian dynasty came to an end.
  25. Complete the sentence about Union of Lublin with the correct year: On 28 June ______, the last objections were overcome, and on 4 July, an act was accordingly signed by the king at Lublin Castle.
  26. Complete the sentence about Union of Lublin with the correct year: The constitution was not fully implemented, however, and the Commonwealth was ended with the Partitions of Poland in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: The Union of Lublin established the Commonwealth as a single entity on 1 July ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: As he remained childless, his death in ______ marked the end of the Jagiellonian dynasty.
  29. Complete the sentence about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the correct year: By concluding the ______ Union of Lublin the Grand Duchy of Lithuania remained a separate state from the Crown of the…
  30. Complete the sentence about Stephen Báthory with the correct year: In ______, Báthory became the husband of Queen Anna Jagiellon and the third elected king of Poland.
  31. Complete the sentence about Stephen Báthory with the correct year: After Zápolya's death in ______, the Transylvanian estates elected Báthory Voivode of Transylvania.
  32. Complete the sentence about Stephen Báthory with the correct year: Bekes, supported by the Habsburgs, disputed his election, but by ______, Báthory emerged victorious in the resulting civil war and dr…
  33. Complete the sentence about Sigismund III Vasa with the correct year: Opposition in Protestant Sweden caused a war against Sigismund headed by Sigismund's uncle Charles IX of Sweden, who deposed him i…
  34. Complete the sentence about Sigismund III Vasa with the correct year: The couple was being held prisoner at Gripsholm since ______ when John staged a failed rebellion against his deranged brother Eric…
  35. Complete the sentence about John III Sobieski with the correct year: Popular among his subjects, he was an able military leader, most famously for his victory over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of…
  36. Complete the sentence about John III Sobieski with the correct year: Suffering from poor health and obesity in later life, Sobieski died in ______ and was buried at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków.
  37. Complete the sentence about John III Sobieski with the correct year: In ______, Marek died in Cossack captivity after his capture at the Battle of Batih.
  38. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vienna with the correct year: The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September ______ after the city had been besieged by the Ot…
  39. Complete the sentence about Battle of Vienna with the correct year: The Siege of Szigetvár in ______ blocked the advance of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent towards Vienna and stopped the Ottoman advan…
  40. Complete the sentence about The Deluge with the correct year: In ______, Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a popular uprising of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Ukrainian peasants discontented with the rule of Polish a…
  41. Complete the sentence about The Deluge with the correct year: In the summer of ______, the Russians managed to capture most important cities and strongholds of today's Belarus.
  42. Complete the sentence about Chmielnicki Uprising with the correct year: The uprising led to the eventual incorporation of eastern Ukraine into the Tsardom of Russia, initiated by the ______ Pereiaslav…
  43. Complete the sentence about Chmielnicki Uprising with the correct year: All through the autumn of ______, Khmelnytsky travelled from one regiment to another and had numerous consultations with differe…
  44. Complete the sentence about Liberum veto with the correct year: For example, as historian Władysław Czapliński describes in the Sejm of ______ context, some resolutions were struck down, but others pa…
  45. Complete the sentence about Partitions of Poland with the correct year: The First Partition was decided on 5 August ______, after the Bar Confederation lost the war with Russia.
  46. Complete the sentence about Partitions of Poland with the correct year: The Third Partition took place on 24 October ______, in reaction to the unsuccessful Polish Kościuszko Uprising the previous yea…
  47. Complete the sentence about Partitions of Poland with the correct year: In February ______, the agreement of partition was signed in Vienna.
  48. Complete the sentence about Stanisław August Poniatowski with the correct year: With her aid, he was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania by the Sejm in September ______ following the de…
  49. Complete the sentence about Stanisław August Poniatowski with the correct year: Stripped of all meaningful power, Poniatowski abdicated in November ______ and spent the last years of his life as a cap…
  50. Complete the sentence about Stanisław August Poniatowski with the correct year: In ______, he travelled to Berlin where he met a British diplomat, Charles Hanbury Williams, who became his mentor and f…
  51. Complete the sentence about Stanisław August Poniatowski with the correct year: In ______, Poniatowski was elected to the Treasury Tribunal in Radom, where he served as a commissioner.
  52. Complete the sentence about Stanisław August Poniatowski with the correct year: In March ______, he travelled to Hungary and Vienna, where he again met with Williams.
  53. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In February ______, he travelled on to Britain, where he spent some months.
  54. Complete the sentence about Constitution of 3 May 1791 with the correct year: Over the ensuing 123 years, the legacy of the ______ Constitution helped sustain Polish and Lithuanian aspirations for the…
  55. Complete the sentence about Constitution of 3 May 1791 with the correct year: In the words of two of its principal authors, Ignacy Potocki and Hugo Kołłątaj, the ______ Constitution was "the last will…
  56. Complete the sentence about Kościuszko Uprising with the correct year: Petersburg in January ______, criticized the constitution for contributing to, in their own words, "contagion of democratic ideas…
  57. Complete the sentence about Kościuszko Uprising with the correct year: On 18 May ______ the Russian ambassador to Poland, Yakov Bulgakov, delivered a declaration of war to Polish Foreign Minister Joac…
  58. Complete the sentence about Kościuszko Uprising with the correct year: With new deputies bribed or intimidated by the Russian troops, a new session of parliament, known as the Grodno Sejm, took place…
  59. Complete the sentence about Kościuszko Uprising with the correct year: On 23 November ______, it concluded its deliberations under duress, annulling the constitution and acceding to the Second Partiti…
  60. Complete the sentence about Tadeusz Kościuszko with the correct year: As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the ______ Kościuszko Uprising.
  61. Complete the sentence about Tadeusz Kościuszko with the correct year: In ______, Kościuszko moved to North America, where he took part in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental…
  62. Complete the sentence about Tadeusz Kościuszko with the correct year: In ______, in recognition of his services, the Continental Congress promoted him to brigadier general.
  63. Complete the sentence about Tadeusz Kościuszko with the correct year: The defeat of the Kościuszko Uprising that November led to Poland's Third Partition in ______, which ended the Commonwealth.
  64. Complete the sentence about Duchy of Warsaw with the correct year: The city of Kraków, Poland's cultural centre, was granted "free city" status until its incorporation into Austria in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about November Uprising with the correct year: The uprising began on 29 November ______ in Warsaw when young Polish officers from the military academy of the Army of Congress Pol…
  66. Complete the sentence about November Uprising with the correct year: The uprising began on the night of 29 November ______ in Warsaw, initiated by a group of young Polish military cadets led by Piotr…
  67. Complete the sentence about November Uprising with the correct year: In February ______, the Polish Sejm formally deposed Tsar Nicholas I as king of Poland, turning the uprising into a struggle for co…
  68. Complete the sentence about November Uprising with the correct year: The decisive defeat came after a prolonged campaign culminating in the siege and storming of Warsaw in September ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about January Uprising with the correct year: The Polish nobility and urban bourgeois circles longed for the relative sovereignty they had enjoyed in Congress Poland before the p…
  70. Complete the sentence about January Uprising with the correct year: The decision sparked the January Uprising of ______, the very outcome that Wielopolski and his subordinates had wanted to avoid.
  71. Complete the sentence about Congress Poland with the correct year: Russian rule over the region effectively ended during World War I with the ______ Russian withdrawal, after which the territory was o…
  72. Complete the sentence about Józef Piłsudski with the correct year: In ______, he predicted a new major war would defeat the Russian Empire and the Central Powers.
  73. Complete the sentence about Józef Piłsudski with the correct year: After World War I began in ______, Piłsudski's Legions fought alongside Austria-Hungary against Russia.
  74. Complete the sentence about Józef Piłsudski with the correct year: In ______, with Russia faring poorly in the war, he withdrew his support for the Central Powers, and was imprisoned in Magdeburg by t…
  75. Complete the sentence about Second Polish Republic with the correct year: The Polish government-in-exile was established in Paris and later London after the fall of France in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Second Polish Republic with the correct year: In ______, the Second Republic was the sixth largest country in Europe.
  77. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By ______, just before the outbreak of World War II, this had grown to an estimated 35.1 million.
  78. Complete the sentence about Polish–Soviet War with the correct year: Meanwhile, Polish leaders, including Józef Piłsudski, aimed to restore Poland's pre-______ borders and secure the country's positio…
  79. Complete the sentence about Polish–Soviet War with the correct year: In April ______, Piłsudski launched the Kiev offensive with the goal of securing favorable borders for Poland.
  80. Complete the sentence about Polish–Soviet War with the correct year: In response, the Soviet Red Army launched a successful counteroffensive starting in June ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Battle of Warsaw with the correct year: After the Polish Kiev offensive, Soviet forces launched a successful counterattack in summer ______, forcing the Polish army to retr…
  82. Complete the sentence about Battle of Warsaw with the correct year: At the same time in ______, the Bolsheviks had gained the upper hand in the Russian Civil War, having dealt crippling blows to the R…
  83. Complete the sentence about Battle of Warsaw with the correct year: By mid-______, Poland's very survival was at stake and foreign observers expected it to collapse at any moment.
  84. Complete the sentence about Gabriel Narutowicz with the correct year: In ______, he was nominated a professor of hydroelectric and water engineering in Zurich, and was subsequently assigned to maintai…
  85. Complete the sentence about Gabriel Narutowicz with the correct year: In September ______, Narutowicz was invited by the Polish authorities to work on reconstruction projects in the aftermath of World…
  86. Complete the sentence about Gabriel Narutowicz with the correct year: In June ______, Narutowicz became the minister of public works in Władysław Grabski's government.
  87. Complete the sentence about Ignacy Mościcki with the correct year: Mościcki was the president of Poland when Germany invaded the country on 1 September ______ and started World War II.
  88. Complete the sentence about Ignacy Mościcki with the correct year: Mościcki was born on 1 December ______ in Mierzanowo, a small village near Ciechanów, Congress Poland.
  89. Complete the sentence about Ignacy Mościcki with the correct year: In ______, he was offered an assistantship at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
  90. Complete the sentence about Ignacy Mościcki with the correct year: In ______, he became an honorary member of the Polish Chemical Society.
  91. Complete the sentence about Ignacy Mościcki with the correct year: Mościcki remained president until September ______, when he was interned in Romania after the German invasion of Poland and was force…
  92. Complete the sentence about Invasion of Poland with the correct year: On 30 January ______, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, under its leader Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany.
  93. Complete the sentence about Polish government-in-exile with the correct year: Berling's Army, formed in the USSR in ______, remained there and fought under Soviet command.
  94. Complete the sentence about Polish Underground State with the correct year: The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland…
  95. Complete the sentence about Polish Underground State with the correct year: Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski became the commander of the ZWZ Soviet zone but was arrested in March ______ by the Soviets when att…
  96. Complete the sentence about Polish Underground State with the correct year: PKP was formed in ______ pursuant to an agreement between several major political parties: the Socialist Party, People's Par…
  97. Complete the sentence about Polish Underground State with the correct year: By ______, most of the differences between politicians in occupied Poland and those in exile had been positively settled.
  98. Complete the sentence about Home Army with the correct year: On 19 January ______, after the Red Army had cleared most Polish territory of German forces, the Home Army was disbanded.
  99. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Uprising with the correct year: Poland remained part of the Soviet-aligned Eastern Bloc throughout the Cold War until ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Warsaw Ghetto with the correct year: The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May ______ after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had temporarily halted the deportations.

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