Comparative Timeline

Comparative Timeline

comparison between Italian and Polish history

ITALY

POLAND

Antiquity (up to the 5th century AD)

SLAVIC, CELTIC AND GERMANIC TRIBES

ROMAN EMPIRE

Early Middle Ages

BIRTH OF THE FIRST POLISH STATE

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

Municipalities are beginning to develop and there is some political fragmentation

adoption of Christianity (966)

UNION WITH LITHUANIA

Late Middle Ages

AGE OF ITALIAN LORDSHIPS

creating the biggest state a the time

development of the cultural movement of humanism

Suffers the partitions (1772-1795) by Russia, Prussia and Austria, disappearing from the European maps.

modern age

It remains fragmented into several states under the rule of foreign powers (Spain, Austria, France).

contemporary age

1918

1861

It regains its independence only in 1918, after the First World War.

United in 1861 with the Kingdom of Italy, completed with Rome in 1870.

Invaded by Nazi Germany and the USSR in 1939, suffers huge losses (such as Warsaw Uprising, Katyn Massacre).

World War II (1939-1945)

Allied with Nazi Germany until 1943, then to the Allies.

It remained under Soviet rule until 1989, when, with the fall of communism, it fully regained its sovereignty and began a process of democratic and economic transformation.

Cold War (1945 - present)

1946

After the war it becomes a Republic

2004

1957

ue

Enters the EU much later, on 1 May 2004, with the first major enlargement to the east.

It was one of the founding countries of the European Community in 1957 (Treaties of Rome).

Genially