Czechoslovakia · event 1 of 12

28 October 1918

Czechoslovakia is founded. The empire collapses and an independent republic is declared, with Tomáš Masaryk as president. Within twenty years it is among the ten most industrialised economies in the world and the only functioning democracy left in central Europe.

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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