Czechoslovakia · event 12 of 12

1 January 1977

Charter 77. A few hundred people sign a document asking the state to observe its own laws. The signatories, including Václav Havel, are arrested, harassed and barred from work. Havel spends nearly five years in prison.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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