Monday, July 26, 2021

Basic timeline of Lithuania


This post is a basic timeline of Lithuania. There are 36 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • First humans (10th millennium BC)
  • Corded Ware culture (2900 - 2350 BC)
  • Viking raids (9th century - 11th century AD)
  • Livonian Crusade (13th century AD)
  • Prussian Crusade (1217-1274)
  • State of the Teutonic Order (1226-1525)
  • Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1236-1795)
  • Kingdom of Lithuania (1251-1263)
  • Lithuanian Crusade (1283-1422)
  • Golden Horde invasions (13th century - 14th century)
  • Gediminid dynasty (14th century - 16th century)
  • Jagiellonian dynasty (1386-1596)
  • Lithuanian Civil War of 1381-1384
  • Lithuanian Civil War of 1389-1392
  • Samogitian Uprising (1401-1404)
  • Lithuanian Civil War of 1432-1438
  • Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411)
  • Livonian War (1558-1583)
  • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)
  • Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648-1657)
  • Second Northern War (1655-1660)
  • Great Northern War (1700-1721)
  • Russian Empire annexes Lithuania (1795)
  • November Uprising (1830-1831)
  • January Uprising (1863-1864)
  • Lithuanian press ban (1865-1904)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918-1920)
  • Republic of Lithuania (1918-1940)
  • World War II (1939-1945)
  • Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940-1941, 1944-1991)
  • Germany occupies Lithuania (1941-1944)
  • Holocaust (1941-1945)
  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
  • Lithuania gains independence (1991)
  • Lithuania joins the European Union (2004)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Lithuania at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Lithuania.)