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Partition

Poland · House / House of Poniatowski. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1793–1795Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1793

Stanislaw II23 January 1793

House / House of Poniatowski

Russia takes most of Lithuania & western Ukraine. Russia has the right of troop movement & to direct Polish Foreign policy. Prussia takes Danzig, Thorn & great Poland

1795

Stanislaw II24 October 1795

Saint Petersburg · House / House of Poniatowski

Poland is partitioned by Russia, Prussia & Austria & resigns the throne

Stanislaw II1795

House / House of Poniatowski

After 3 partitions the Polish Commonwealth ceases to exist, reconstituted in Nov 1918

Names involved

Stanislaw II

Provenance

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