Slovak History

History of Slovakia (from wikipedia)

• Oldest Human artifact found in Slovakia The Venus of Moravany (Slovak: Moravianska venuša) is made of mammoth Ivory and dating back to 22800 years BP ploughed up in 1930 by farmer Štefan Hulman-Petrech near the village of Moravany nad Váhom, A copy of this Venus currently resides in the Bratislava Castle exposition of the Slovak National Museum
• Celts: first Celtic groups came from the West around 400 BC
• Settlements of the La Tène culture indicate that the Celts colonized the lowlands along the river Danube and its tributaries
• New Celtic groups arrived from Northern Italy during the 2nd century BC
• The Púchov culture was an archaeological culture named after site of Púchov-Skalka in Slovakia. between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE.
• Arrival of the Slavs
• Regarding the early history of Slavs, Slavic texts or a record written by a Slav dating from before the late 9th century are not known.^[25] The foreign sources (mostly Greek and Latin) about Slavs are very inconsistent.^[25] According to a scholarly theory, the first Slavic groups settled in the eastern region of present-day Slovakia already in the 4th century.^[26] The 6th-century Byzantine historian Jordanes wrote that the funeral feast at Attila’s burial was called strava.^[21][27] Scholars who identify that word as a Slavic expression say that Jordanes’ report proves that Slavs inhabited the Carpathian Basin in the middle of the 5th century.
• Avar Khaganate : The Avars were a group of nomadic warriors of mixed origin.^[43] They conquered the Carpathian Basin, subjugated the local peoples and launched plundering expeditions against the neighboring powers
• Principality of Nitra 9th-century
• Great Moravia Great Moravia arose around 830 when Mojmír I unified the Slavic tribes settled north of the Danube
• Mongol invasion (1241–1242)
• Period of the oligarchs (1290–1321)
  Areas ruled by Matthew III Csák and Amade Aba.
  The last decades of the 13th century were characterized by discords within the royal family and among the several groups of the aristocracy.
• Late Middle Ages (14th–15th centuries)
• Early modern period : Habsburg and Ottoman administration
• Late modern period : Slovak National Movement
• Hungarian Revolution of 1848
• Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
• Formation of Czechoslovakia politicians held a secret meeting at Liptószentmiklós / Liptovský Mikuláš on 1 May 1918.
• First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)
• Towards autonomy of Slovakia (1938–1939)
• World War II – 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
• Czechoslovakia after World War II
• Velvet Revolution (1989)
• Independent Slovakia
  A map of modern Slovakia
  In an election held in June 1992, Václav Klaus‘s Civic Democratic Party won in Czechia on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar‘s Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, on a platform of Slovak autonomy.