Major Historical Events

Gentry of Greater Poland Gentry is a society rank wchich continues a tradition of knighthood and nobility wchich was finally […]

The Teutonic Knights became a vassal of the Crown following the Second Peace of Thorn (now Toruń) of 1466 concluded […]

In 1933, Walenty Szwajcer, a teacher at a rural school in Biskupin (Żnin County), started to take an interest in […]

Wielkopolska spent the years 1793-1919 under the partitions except for a short interregnum in the Duchy of Warsaw. Once the […]

The Kórnik Library is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences, one of the most important scientific institutions in the […]

As the main task of medieval cities was to promote handicraft production and commercial exchange, they were invariably centred around […]

The distinctive Church of St. John of Jerusalem, near the Śródka Roundabout in the right bank part of Poznań, is […]

The Nazi authorities set up the Reichsgau Wartheland (Reich Shire Warta Land) as an administrative unit in late October and […]

King Jan III Sobieski’s victory over the invading Turks at Vienna in 1683 was a major event that resounded throughout […]

The nations of early 19th-century Europe were either fighting alongside Napoleon or as part of a multi-national coalition opposing him. […]

Ethnically homogenous societies almost never exist in most countries. Ethnic diversity in Wielkopolska, a region located at the crossroads of […]

Wielkopolska was assigned to the Prussian state in 1793 as a result of the determinations of the second partition agreement. […]

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