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Mar 15, 2024 · Jerome of Prague, Czech philosopher and theologian whose advocacy of sweeping religious reform in the Western church made him one of the first Reformation leaders in central Europe. He was burned at the stake for heresy and is sometimes considered the first martyr of the Protestant Reformation.
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4 days ago · The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
- 5 January – 21 August 1968 (7 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Normalization in Czechoslovakia
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2 days ago · After the democratic revolutions of 1989 in eastern Europe, the Warsaw Pact became moribund and was formally declared “nonexistent” on July 1, 1991, at a final summit meeting of Warsaw Pact leaders in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Deployed Soviet troops were gradually withdrawn from the former satellites, now politically independent countries.
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4 days ago · Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Operation Danube. Part of the Cold War, the Prague Spring, the Sino–Soviet split, the Albanian–Soviet split, the Romanian–Soviet split, the Yugoslav–Soviet split, and the protests of 1968. Photograph of a Soviet T-54 in Prague during the Warsaw Pact's occupation of Czechoslovakia.
- 20–21 August 1968
Mar 12, 2024 · Václav Havel (born October 5, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]—died December 18, 2011, Hrádeček, Czech Republic) was a Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003).
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3 days ago · Following a legal dispute with his sister-in-law Dagmar Havlová (wife of his brother Ivan M. Havel), Havel decided to sell his 50% stake in the Lucerna Palace on Wenceslas Square in Prague, built from 1907 to 1921 by his grandfather, also named Václav Havel (spelled Vácslav,) one of the multifunctional "palaces" in the center of the once ...
Mar 8, 2024 · Andy Hunter at epet Arena. @AHunterGuardian. Thu 7 Mar 2024 15.01 EST. The perfect night in Prague for Liverpool. Almost. Jürgen Klopp’s quadruple-chasing team effectively secured their place in...