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Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most populous city proper in the European Union...

Timeline of Events

1655

8.29.1655

Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.

1861

2.27.1861

Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.

1918

11.11.1918

Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.

1922

12.16.1922

President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

1939

9.28.1939

Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

1940

11.9.1940

Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

1942

6.1.1942

World War II: the Warsaw paper ''Liberty Brigade'' publishes the first news of the concentration camps.

12.4.1942

Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.

1944

8.1.1944

Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

8.5.1944

Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

1945

1.17.1945

Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.

1980

3.14.1980

In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.

1987

5.9.1987

A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.