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  • 6th century - arrival of Slavs in present day Moravia and Slovakia
  • Second half of the 9th century - arrival of Christian missionaries
  • 870 - Czech was Duchy of Bohemia
  • 9th century - 14th century - a gradual strengthening of the Czech state during the reign of the Premyslid dynasty
  • 1198 - Czech was Kingdom of Bohemia
  • 1346 - 1378 - the peak in the prestige and power of the kingdom of Bohemia during the reign of Charles IV
  • Beginning of the 15th century - a crisis of state leads to the Hussite movement
  • 1526 - Habsburg dynasty succeeds to the throne of Bohemia - the formation of a multi-national empire
  • 1620 - defeat of the Bohemian Estates at the Battle of White Mountain, continued centralization of the Habsburg Empire
  • October 28, 1918 - foundation of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks: Czechoslovakia
  • March 15, 1939 - May 9, 1945 - German occupation
  • February 1948 - Communist coupe
  • August 1968 - Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact countries brings an end to the "Prague Spring" and the Communist Party's attempt to build "Socialism with a human face"
  • November 1989 - overthrow of the Communist regime
  • January 1, 1993 – the Czech Republic founded after the split of Czechoslovakia
Honorary Consul Petr Vasicko
Petr Vasicko is Honorary Consul in Charlotte

Petr Vasicko is the Honorary Consul in Charlotte