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Monday, July 26, 2021

Basic timeline of Lithuania

This post is a basic timeline of Lithuania. There are 36 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

First humans (10th millennium BC)
Corded Ware culture (2900 - 2350 BC)
Viking raids (9th century - 11th century AD)
Livonian Crusade (13th century AD)
Prussian Crusade (1217-1274)
State of the Teutonic Order (1226-1525)
Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1236-1795)
Kingdom of Lithuania (1251-1263)
Lithuanian Crusade (1283-1422)
Golden Horde invasions (13th century - 14th century)
Gediminid dynasty (14th century - 16th century)
Jagiellonian dynasty (1386-1596)
Lithuanian Civil War of 1381-1384
Lithuanian Civil War of 1389-1392
Samogitian Uprising (1401-1404)
Lithuanian Civil War of 1432-1438
Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411)
Livonian War (1558-1583)
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)
Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648-1657)
Second Northern War (1655-1660)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Russian Empire annexes Lithuania (1795)
November Uprising (1830-1831)
January Uprising (1863-1864)
Lithuanian press ban (1865-1904)
World War I (1914-1918)
Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918-1920)
Republic of Lithuania (1918-1940)
World War II (1939-1945)
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940-1941, 1944-1991)
Germany occupies Lithuania (1941-1944)
Holocaust (1941-1945)
Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
Lithuania gains independence (1991)
Lithuania joins the European Union (2004)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Lithuania at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Lithuania.)