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| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | | Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers use mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents at Dolni Vestonice (in the Czech Republic) | |
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| c. 27,000 years ago |
| | | In the earlist known example of ceramics, humans at Dolni Vestonice model figures in burnt clay | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The Czechs are the most powerful of the various Slav tribes by now settled in Bohemia | |
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| 863 |
| | | The missionary brothers Cyril and Methodius arrive in Moravia, where they introduce the Greek Orthodox faith in a special Slavonic liturgy | |
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| 929 |
| | | Wenceslas, a prince of the Premsylid family, is murdered on his way into church - and becomes Bohemia's patron saint | |
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| 1260 |
| | | The Bohemian prince Otakar II, ruler also of Austria, extends his territories after defeating the Hungarians at Kressenbrunn | |
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| 1346 |
| | | Charles IV, king of Bohemia, German king and Holy Roman emperor, makes Prague a glittering centre of learning and architecture | |
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| 1394 |
| | | Anne of Bohemia, the wife of Richard II, dies of plague at Richmond and in his distress the king orders the palace to be demolished | |
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| 1402 |
| | | John Huss, known for his radical approach to Christianity, is put in charge of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague | |
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| 1414 |
| | | A council is called at Constance, to consider the radical views of John Huss and to deal with the present excess of popes | |
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