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Pressburg Capital
Pressburg becomes a key capital and coronation city.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Bratislava in Slovakia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Pressburg becomes a key capital and coronation city.
Codifies an early standard Slovak language.
Becomes head of the autonomous Slovak government.
The Slovak Assembly proclaims independence and Tiso becomes prime minister.
The Slovak State is proclaimed under German pressure.
German occupation of Czech lands completes the destruction of Czechoslovakia.
Tiso is elected President of Slovakia.
Soviet forces capture Bratislava from German control.
Becomes First Secretary of the Slovak Communist Party.
Warsaw Pact invasion ends the Prague Spring reforms.
Helps organise a major peaceful religious rights protest.
Returns to public politics during the Velvet Revolution.
Helps lead Slovakia's Velvet Revolution movement.
Becomes Slovak prime minister after democratic elections.
Leads the Slovak government during federal negotiations.
Parliament adopts the declaration of Slovak sovereignty.
Slovak parliament adopts a new constitution.
Slovakia becomes an independent state.
Becomes Slovakia's first president.
Forms an interim government after Meciar is removed.
Returns as prime minister after elections.
Forms a reform government after Meciar's defeat.
Wins Slovakia's first direct presidential election.
Forms his first government after parliamentary elections.
Slovakia adopts the euro currency.
Becomes Slovakia's first female prime minister.
Returns as prime minister after Smer wins elections.
Becomes president after defeating Robert Fico.
Resigns after protests over the Kuciak murder.
Becomes prime minister after Fico's resignation.
Wins the presidential election.
Forms a government after parliamentary elections.
Becomes prime minister after Matovic resigns.
Returns as prime minister after Smer wins elections.
Is inaugurated as President of Slovakia.
Provenance
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