Moments in Time
Prelude to Greatness

  • 1024 - King Boleslaw I
  • 1333-1370 Casimir the Great
  • 1395 - Union of Krewo
  • Medieval Poland
    The Golden Age

  • The Grain Trade
  • 1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus
  • 1569 - Union of Lublin
  • 1573 - The Golden Liberty
  • 1595 - Union of Brest
  • 1569-1793 - The Commonwealth
    In Decline

  • 1587-1668 - The Vasa/Waza Era
  • 1655-1660 The Swedish Deluge
  • 1683 - Jan Sobieski at Vienna
  • 1768-1772 - Bar Confederation
    Nation Without A Country

  • 1772-1795 - Partitions Era Begins
  • 1807-1815 - Duchy of Warsaw
  • 1830-1831 - November Uprising
  • 1846 - The Peasant Rebellion
  • 1863 - The January Uprising
  • 1871-1878 - Kulturkampf!
  • 1870-1914 - Emigrant Tidal Wave
  • 1919 - Sovereignty Restored

    Background music: Chopin Poloniase Opus 53
    Dennis Benarz & Karen Wisniewski, USA 2009-2010