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| 1807 |
| | | Part of Poland is recovered from Prussia to become the grand duchy of Warsaw, a small state dependent upon Napoleon | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Poland becomes a kingdom of very limited independence, since the Russian tsar Alexander I is to be its king | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Polish composer Frédéric Chopin completes his Preludes under difficult conditions in Majorca | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marie Curie and her husband Pierre isolate a new element which they name polonium in honour of her native Poland | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland | |
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| 1914 August 25-28 |
| | | A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg | |
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| 1915 January |
| | | Germans make an experimental but ineffective use of chlorine gas against the Russians in Poland | |
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| 1915 December |
| | | German armies make sufficient advances to drive the Russians out of Poland | |
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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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