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19 Feb 1473 – Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun Poland. (Today in history. AP. 19 Feb 2015. Yahoo news).

4-15 Oct 1582 – Poland, end of the Julian calendar on 4 Oct 1582. The beginning of Gregorian calendar on 15 Oct 1582. (Ancestry. March April 2007 p21).

1648 – One third of the Jews in Poland were slaughtered. (SFAW newswire. Jews expulsion world. 7 Sept 2014).

1648-1660 – Poland lost one third of its population due to war, famine and plague. Wikipedia.

11 Sept 1683 – The gates of Vienna. The king of Poland began the battle that turned back the Muslim armies. For the next 300 years Islam was overwhelmed by Christians. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1733 – King Augustus II of Poland lay in his deathbed. Concubines. (Royal babylon. Kent Shaw. ©1999 US).

1835 – A history of Poland as a state. M Ross. Espionage. Google books.

1870 – Bank Handlowy BHW or Citi Handlowy is a Polish bank in Warsaw. It was established in 1870. It is one of the oldest banks in Poland and Europe.

1902 – US mafia Meyer Lansky was born Maier Suchowljansky in 1902 at Grodno Poland, which was ruled by the Tsarist Russia. (Money and power ©2001 S Denton. R Morris. US).

1902 – Meyer Lansky. Mair Suchowljansky was born in 1902 in Grodno Poland, which was occupied by Tsarist Russia. In the US at 10 years old, his family fled the pogroms and went to New York. (The Havana mob. T J English (c)2007 UK).

1902 – Widespread pogroms. (SFAW newswire. Jews expulsion world. 7 Sept 2014).

1913 – Pinterest. A Kalderari man, photo J Ficowsky. Gypsies in Poland. Svenko.

1918 – Polish refugees at a station on the German Polish border. Picture. (Who do you think you are mag. June 2013 UK).

1921-40 – The Polish military in 1921 took Lithuania’s historic capital, the mainly Polish city of Vilnus, and kept it until Stalin nationalised the city to Lithuania in 1940. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

1929 – Pinterest. Painting with Roma. Leon Lewkowicz. Polish artist. Svenka.

1930 – Pinterest. Sanok Poland. Romany mother with her baby. Hans Hildebrand. Facebook.

1932-39 – The German military version of Enigma machine was cracked in 1932 by Poland. Henryk Zygalski. In 1939 Poland faced invasion. On 24 July 1939 the British and Fench met with the Polish at Kabackie woods Pyry, south of Warsaw. Enigma machine and codebreaking. (The secret life of Bletchley park. Sinclair McKay (c)2010 UK).

16 Feb 1934 – Warsaw. Evening Post. Papers Past NZ.

1937 – Potsdam archives documents. Propaganda and starvation of ancestors. Theresienstadt was a ghetto 140,000 Jews apparently went there. Marie Kallman and Sulma Springer were transported to a Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland. Six months later she and thousands of others were forced into cattle trucks and deported by train to Chelmo concentraton camp. Stripped naked and led into gas vans, the precursors of the gas chambers, and murdered. The association of Jewish refugees. 80,000 Jewish refugees went to the UK. A shop in Landsberg, now Gorzow in Poland, was then part of Germany. Town archives, a Jewish, anti semetic following Hitlers rise to power in 1933. They went to Berlin. (Who do you think you are. The genealogy handbook. BBC UK 2014).

1938 - Pinterest. Sinti and Roma gypsies. Eva Justin of the racial hygiene research section of RHF. Extermination and forced sterilization of thousands of Sinti and Roma gypsies in Poland.

1 Sept 1938 – German troops crossed the border into Poland. Two days later Britain was at war. (Christopher Andrew UK (c)2009 M15).

1939 – Pinterest. Esoteric. The execution of Polish men on bloody sunday, Bydyoszaz. Buzzlamp.

1939 – 22,000 Polish officers were killed in Katyn. Nazis, Stalin. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

1939 – On 1 Sept 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. On 8 Oct 1939 Polish Jews and non Jews were starved. Polish language and books were burned. Designed to abolish all traces of Polish history and culture. The first mass executions of World War two were in Wawer near Warsaw Poland on 27 Dec 1939. 107 Polish men were shot.

1939-44 – 1939 Poland, the Kremlin and Nazis, both attacked Poland in 1944, Stalin and the German Nazis, the Warsaw uprising. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

1939-45 – shsu.edu. Post war Poland. 6 million people, over 15% of Poland's population. The Hitler Stalin pact was signed and 2.5 million Poles went to camps in Germany.

1 Sept 1939 – World war two began when the UK and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland. (The mystery of the shemitah. Jonathan Cahn (c)2014 US).

25 Sept 1939 – The German Luftwaffe struck Warsaw Poland with fire bombs. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 25 Sept 2015).

1940 – Stalin authorised the murder at Katyn and elsewhere, in spring 1940, of at least 15,000 Polish officers. They had been captured during the invasion that followed the Nazi Soviet pact. London based Polish exiles called for an investigation. Stalin’s responsibility for Katyn came in 1990. (We now know. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1940 – Stalin killed thousands of Polish army officers in the Katyn forest. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1940s – Pinterest. Poland, young nomadic gypsy violinists at the begining of the 1940s. Garanmer.

20 Feb 1941 – The first transport of Jews to concentration camps left Plotsk Poland. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 20 Feb 2015).

8 Dec 1941 – In occupied Poland near Lodz, chelmno extermination camps begin operation. Jews were taken there and placed in mobile gas vans then driven to a burial place where carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust was fed into the sealed rear, killing them. The first gassing victims included 5,000 gypsies, who had been deported from the Reich to Lodz. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

1942 – Similarity between the effects of famine on the Irish and on half a million Jews in the Warsaw ghettos who were systematically starved by the Nazis in 1942. (Tim Pat Coogan The famine plot ©2012).

26 June 1942 – 70,000 Polish Jews. Evening Post NZ. Papers past.

19 July 1942 – Himmler orders 'Operation Reinhard' the mass deportations of Jews in Poland to extermination camps. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

1943-45 – The Katyn forest massacre in the early war years. Thousands of captive Polish officers were killed. Col John Van Vliet, a US army officer was on the scene as a German POW and he examined bodies and data, when he was freed in 1945 he wrote a report saying the Soviets were responsible. The Van Vliet report later disappeared. (Blacklisted by history. Joe McCarthy. M Stanton Evans ©2007 US).

1943-45 – A US house committee, Ray Madden said that reports reflecting badly on the Kremlin were disposed of. Also Col Henry Szynanski. Army intel G-2, files were moved to the dead files of that agency. The transcript of the executive vanished from the National archives. Army Intel G-2. Higher ups suppressed any anti Soviet reports. (Blacklisted by history. Joe McCarthy. M Stanton Evans ©2007 US).

4 May 1943 – Nazis and Polish graves. The Manchester Guardian UK.

14 Oct 1943 – 600 Jews escaped in an uprising at a Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor Poland. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 14 Oct 2015).

3 Nov 1943 – Nazis carry out 'Operation Harvest Festival' in occupied Poland killing 42,000 Jews. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

Aug 1944 – Pinterst. Warsaw streeets. Holocaust. Stephanie Tremblay. Pictures.

6 August 1944 – Lodz, the last Jewish ghetto in Poland is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

Sept 1944 - The world bank, IMF and Bretton Woods, the $US. 1945. (The mystery of the shemitah. Jonathan Cahn (c)2014 US).

1947 – An Auschwitz trial was held in Cracow Poland in 1947. Auschwitz Nazi Rudolf Hoss was tried and hanged. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen ©2014 US).

Sept 1947 – Stalin called a meeting of the Soviet and East European Communist parties, French and Italian Communists in Poland. International Communist movement. Delegations arrived at Szklarska Porieba. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

22 Sept 1947 – Stalin’s Andrei Zhdanov was a member of the politburo, called the main European communist parties, 6 from eastern Europe, plus France and Italy, to a meeting at Szklarska poreba in Poland. In late 1947 there were violent strikes in industry in Italy and France. (The great cold war. Gordan S Barress ©2009 US).

1950s – Czeslaw Milosz book the captive mind. Describes life in the 1950s in Poland under Nazi and Stalin, Socialism. (Secret histories ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1955-57 – When Gomulka returned to power in Poland in 1955 a special commission into the UB was formed. May 1957 a report by chief investigator Jozef Rozanski from the 10^th dept. of the Polish Communist party. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

14 May 1955 – The Warsaw pact was formed. (This day in history. 14 May 2015).

5 June 1956 – Poland’s Communist party leader, Boleslaw Beirut, had a heart attack. In Poland people rioted in Poznon for bread and freedom, more than 70 people were killed. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

26 June 1967 – Sacred college of cardinals. Karol Josef Wojtyla, a Catholic priest from Wadowice Poland, was promoted by Pope Paul VI. (Whaleoil beef hooked blog. Alan Peach 26 June 2015).

1970-78 – Gierek came to power in 1970 after strikes. Gomulka, eastern Europe. Gierek built new factoiries. In 1976 there were more strikes, the Catholic run university in Lubin was the only non communist university in the Communist world. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, was made Pope in 1978. (The great cold war. Gerald S Barress ©2009 US).

24 August 1977 – Mormon LDS President Kimball dedicated Poland for future church work. The first visit of a president of the LDS Mormon church behind the iron curtain. (Teachings of the presidents ©2006 Int res inc).

1978 – Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, was archbishop of Krakow in the early 1970s. The Polish SB Communist secret police Wojtylas election in 1978 by Pope John Paul II Poland. (The Mitrokhin archives. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitrokhin (c)1999-2000).

1980-85 – William Bell at Hughes aircraft corp 1980. Marian Zacharski was a Polish intel officer. Bell gave classified defence info to Zacharski. The FBI arrested Bell and Zacharski in 1981 for spying. Zacharski was returned to Poland in 1985 as part of an east west spy swap. (FBI 100 years. Unofficial history. Henry M Holden ©2008 US).

Aug 1980 – March 1981 – In Aug 1980 in Poland 20,000 workers barricaded themselves into the Lenin shipyard in Galansk, strikes were led by Lech Walesa. 300,000 workers went on strike across Poland 31 Aug 1980, Sept 1980 a descendant of count Potocki, one of Poland’s aristrocrats. Stanislaw Kania was the new party leader. 27 March 1981 Solidarity strikes in April 1981. Cardinal Wyszynski, the 80 year old pontif of Poland was near death. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

31 Aug 1980 – Lech Walesa and the Polish government. Solidarity was a union. The Polish people saw that it was reported on the state controled TV. (The case for books. Robert Darnton (c)2009 US).

May Dec 1981 – On 13 May 1981 Poland was tense, Mehemet Ali Agca, a Turk, fired a shot that almost killed the pope in St Petersberg Rome Italy. On 13 Dec 1981 General Jareszelski declared martial law in Poland and put the Polish army in control. 6,000 people were arrested, thousands of people were charged and many people were killed, unions were banned. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1983 – Timothy Garton Ash. The Polish revolution, solidarity. London, Penguin books.

1987 – Polish genealogy and heraldry an intro to research. Janina W Hoskins.

1987 – Teresa Toranska. Them, Stalin’s Polish puppets. Agnieska Yolakowska. New York Harper and Row. London Collins Harcourt.

1987-1991 – NATO archives discloses documents linked to Poland from 1987 to 1991. 19 Feb 2015. NATO HQ press release.

1991 – Krystyna Kerstan. The establishment of Communist rule in Poland 1943 to 1948. John Micgiel and Michael H Bernhard. Berkeley uni of California press.

1996 – Alexander Beider. A dictionary of Jewish surnames from the kingdom of Poland. Teaneck New Jersey Avotaynu.

28 Nov 1996 – Poland child sex abuse scandal. The Independent London UK. More than 100 boys were abused by a paedophile ring and army officers were involved.

2000 – The history of Poland. Mieczyslaw B Biskupaki. Google books.

2002-2003 – US snubs Poland's requests for secret CIA prison documents. The Guardian UK. Poland's investigation into secret CIA prisons. Yahoo news. 13 June 2015. The prison ran from 2002 to 2003 for 9/11 terror suspects.

2004 – Changes in the structure of crime during the transition period in Poland. Kirwik Lucyna. ME Sharpe journal.

2004 – Jews in Poland and Lithuania in the 18^th century. A genealogy of modernity. David Hundert Gershon. Uni California press Berkley LA USA.

2004 – Francesco Cicciariello Schiavoe boss and Camorra mafia was arrested in 2004 in Poland. He was wanted for ten homicides, 3 kidnappings, 9 attempted homicides and extortion. He had big business interests in Poland. (Gomorrah. The other mafia. Roberto Saviano (c)2007 Italy).

2005 – Norman Davies. God’s playground. A history of Poland.

1 June 2005 – The head of Polish special investigation unit resigns. BBC London. Heroin and cocaine from a Polish depot.

24 March 2007 – Angus Reid. Global monitor, polls and research. Majority in Poland rejects missile shield.

2008 – Spies of Warsaw. A novel. Alan Furst.

12 May 2008 – Irena Sendler in Warsaw Poland. Jewish infants and the Warsaw Ghetto. 2,500 babies and infants. Pinterest. 7 Nov 2015.

2009 – The spies of Warsaw. Alan Furst. Daniel Gerroll. Worldcat Database.

2010 – About 300 documents were found in the attic of a house being renovated, in the Polish town of Oswiecim near Auschwitz. Nazi doctors and Farben chemists who worked at death camps. Original documents. Adam Cyra was the historian at the Auschwitz museum. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen ©2014 US).

10 April 2010 – Poland’s President and the entire delegation were killed in a plane crash in Russia. Interpol.

July 2012 – An anti counterfeiting trade agreement called ACTA. The Polish government ratified ACTA. Anonymous took down websites and there were street protests in Krakow. Poland’s Palikot movement put on guy fawkes masks during a parliament session on ACTA. The European parliament repealed the proposed law in July 2012. Polish politicians with guy fawkes masks on. (The many faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman (c)2014 US).

Dec 2013 – The pre war Jewish site, the Polish town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz), the last running synagogue in Oswiecim. Auschwitz Birkenau, Holocaust. (History Today mag Dec 2013 UK).

15 April 2014 – Poland extends GSK GlaxoSmithKline corruption probe. GSK bribed doctors. Staff in pharmaceutical, doctors in Iraq. 13 people including a GSK rep and 12 doctors have been charged in Feb 2012, extended to June 30 2014. Jacek Pakula prosecutor in Podali central city Lodz. GSK bribed doctors to prescribe its asthma drug in the Lodz . (AFP. 3 news. New Zealand).

23 July 2014 – Jspace news. Israel. Remembering Janusz Korczak, protector of Jewish orphans in Poland. Erica Morris. 1942, in 1940 World War Two its 200 orphans were forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Treblinka extermination camp.

11 Sept 2014 – Using legal tools to combat illicit trade and counterfeiting, focus of an . Interpol seminar in Poland.

17 Oct 2014 – Polish history. The Economist. Sites of Nazi death camps. Polish Jews history.

28 Oct 2014 – Railway unions threaten strikes. The news. Pi. Trade unions in Poland biggest Przewezy regionale organize protests.

10 Dec 2014 – Hush money. The CIA paid Poland's government to allow a secret prison. RT. One million dollars was paid to the Polish government by the CIA . 9/11 terror suspects.

27 Jan 2015 – The Telegraph UK. More than one million people were killed at Auschwitz in Poland during world war two. Mainly Jews, Roma gypsies, and the disabled, at the extermination camp. 70 years ago Auschwitz Birkenau anniversary.

20 March 2015 – A Polish Catholic priest got seven years jail for child sex crimes. Paedophile porn. Reuters Mail online UK. Dominican republic child porn. Satanic mass.

13 June 2015 – The US snubs Poland's request for CIA secret prison documents. The Guardian UK. Poland's investigation into a secret prison. Requests for vital documents were rejected. The secret CIA prison in Poland ran from 2002 to 2003.(Yahoo news. 13 June 2015).

15 June 2015 – Poland government. US CIA and info on a secret prison in Poland. Jurist. Piotr Kosmaty is the prosecutor in Krakow doing the investigation.

17 June 2015 – NATO says this is the biggest defence boost since the cold war. Hurriyet Daily. 5,000 air, sea and ground NATO Baltic states against Russia. Reuters.

17 June 2015 – BBC UK. Breitbart news. The US is to store heavy weapons in Poland. NATO. Tanks and infantry in Poland. Tomasa Siemonick is Poland's Defence minister.

18 June 2015 – NATO's biggest defence boost since the cold war. IBN. NATO head is Jens Stoltenberg.

18 June 2015 – Poland says Europe's peaceful period is now over. Yahoo news. Zagan Poland AFP. NATO. Post cold war period.

22 June 2015 – Poland's Warsaw airport canceled flights after 'hacking' attacks. (Sputnik Twitter).

12 July 2015 – More than 150 people in Poland are in hospital after taking a formerly legal drug called 'strongman'. Reuters. Town of Katowice.

20 July 2015 – TV news room. Sobibor camp in occupied Poland to Auschwitz, now aged 94. Charged with accomplice to murder. A German Nazi guard, gas chambers. History.

30 July 2015 – Daily news New York. NYC controllers urge Poland to return Holocaust victims property. Jennifer Fermino.

20 Aug 2015 – 129 images added to Czerwona Wies cmentarz parafialny Losciarki Wielkoilskiu Poland. 3 days ago. Billion graves activity.

20 Aug 2015 – 93 images added to huszkowo Koscianski Wielkopolskie Poland. 2 days ago. Bililon graves activity.

20 Aug 2015 – 63 images added to cmentarz sw Jerzego Torun Gujawsko pomorskie Poland. 2 days ago. Billion graves activity.

20 Aug 2015 – Two men claim to have found a Nazi train packed with gold, which was lost at the end of world war two. Nazi treasure train found in Poland. CNN. TVN. Poland.

7 Sept 2015 – A Nazi gold train is allegedly found in Poland. A 150 metre long armoured train from Poland, gold. Ming.co.

23 Oct 2015 – The Nazi Stutthof death camp in Poland, yeilds haunting Jewish artifacts. Examiner.com. G+. Marilisa Sachteleben.

5 Nov 2015 – Blogger. Paul Barford. A British archeologist who has been living in Warsaw Poland since the 1990s. Archeology blog.

7 Nov 2015 – Sibibor during World war two. Nazi Germany on the outskirts of the village of Sobibor in Poland. The secret 'Operation Reinhard' which was part of the holocaust in Poland. SS Sonder Kommando Sobibor, of Wlodawa aka Wolzek. Pinterest.

8 Nov 2015 – The hunt for the Nazi gold train gets the green light in Poland. Telesurtv.

13 Nov 2015 – Nazi gold train investigation starts at a site in Poland. Thermal imaging cameras. Cargo of stolen gold and artworks. G+. The Guardian UK.

18 Nov 2015 – A 4 earthquake in Poland. Twitter. Earthquake report.

20 Nov 2015 – An anti migrant protest in Poland burned a Jewish effigy. Amy Spiro. The Jerusalem Post.

20 Nov 2015 – A Russian journalist was asked to leave Poland after being accused of espionage. Leonid Sviridov. Radio Poland. RT Novosti.