History

A brief history of the relations between Czech lands and the Adriatic coast: from the joy of the 19th century, to the darkness of the 20th century Just to be able to return, Professor Karel Žlábek devised a 400 km long tunnel. It was...

60 years ago What occurred on November 14, 1960 in Stéblová, in the Pardubice district, is considered one of the most serious railway accidents in the world. It was 5:42 pm when two trains collided at high speed on the single track about 1.5...

400 years ago On November 8, 1620, the battle between the armies of the Catholic League, led by the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II, and the forces of the Confederation of Bohemian Protestants, headed by Frederick V of the Palatinate, was fought in the western...

One hundred years after the death of Emperor Franz Joseph, we remember the relationship he had with the Kingdom of Bohemia, from his coronation in Olomouc, until his death in 1916 Rigid and strict, first of all towards himself, he demanded similar behavior also...

20 years ago The summit, attended by 18,000 people from all over the world, was held from September 26 to 29, 2000, at the Congress Hall in Prague. Much criticized by anti-globalization and other activists, the event gave rise to a major protest with...

50 years ago It was the morning of June 8, 1970, when eight young men, four men and four women, armed with pistols and knives, forced the pilot of the Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-14 flying between Karlovy Vary and Prague, to change the route, and...

50 years ago On September 18, 1970, the Czech poet Stanislav Neumann committed suicide in Prague. Born in the Czechoslovakian capital on October 17, 1927, Neumann was, besides a poet, also a translator and journalist. His grandfather was the poet Stanislav Kostka Neumann (1875–1947),...

100 years ago The voice and the official ideology of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, this is what the daily “Rudé parvo” was in the years before the fall of the Wall. “The red law”, or “The red truth”, is the translation of the header...

75 years ago It was 27 June 1950 when the Czech politician and jurist Milada Horáková, a symbol of the first anti-Nazi and then anti-communist resistance, was executed in the Pankrác prison in Prague, sentenced for conspiracy and treason. Horáková was 48 years old...

75 years ago The Prague Uprising was the prelude to the military offensive of the same name that followed, and which marked the last major military operation of the Second World War on the European front. The Uprising (Czech: Pražské povstání), which began on...