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| 1919 |
| | | Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The Versailles Treaty makes Danzig (or Gdansk) a free city (from 10 January 1920), under the protection of the League of Nations | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The Versailles Treaty provides a corridor of land to give Poland access to Danzig and the Baltic, thereby dividing two parts of Germany | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Polish cryptographers succeed in breaking some of the Enigma code used by the German military | |
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| 1938 September 30 |
| | | Poland insists that the industrial area of Teschen Silesia, largely inhabited by Poles, be ceded by Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1938 October |
| | | Adolf Hitler makes unacceptable demands upon Poland, including the transfer of the free port of Danzig to Germany | |
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| 1938 October |
| | | Adolf Hitler demands a strip of territory through the Polish corridor to reunite Germany with East Prussia | |
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