Painting of Jan Hus in Council of Constance by Václav Brožík

* Václav Brožík ( 1893 ), " Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella "

* Václav Brožík, painter

Václav Brožík

Václav Brožík ( 5 March 1851 – 15 April 1901 ) was a Czech academic painter.

Jan Hus at the council of Constance painted by Václav Brožík.

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* 1911 – Václav Renč, Czech poet ( d. 1973 )

* 1694 – František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer ( d. 1744 )

Cartoon depicting Václav Bělský ( 1818 – 1878 ), Mayor of Prague from 1863 until 1867, in charge of the city during Prussian occupation in July 1866.

* January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

* November 28 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator ( d. 1973 )

* October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, writer and politician ( d. 2011 )

* April 30 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator ( b. 1911 )

* March 28 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor ( b. 1607 )

* July 13 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher ( d. 1677 )

* December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic ( b. 1936 )

* March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian ( d. 1765 )

Charles IV (,, ; 14 May 1316, Prague – 29 November 1378 ), born Wenceslaus ( Václav ), was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor.

* Václav Trojan ( 1907 – 1983 ), Czech composer

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Subsequent chief conductors included Rafael Kubelík ( 1942 – 1948 ), Karel Ančerl ( 1950 – 1968 ), Václav Neumann ( 1968 – 1989 ), Jiri Belohlavek ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerd Albrecht ( 1993 – 1996 ), Vladimir Ashkenazy ( 1996 – 2003 ), and Zdeněk Mácal ( 2003 – 2007 ).

* February 19 – Václav Wasserman, actor, screenwriter and director ( died 1967 )

Václav Prokop Diviš ( 26 March 1698 – 25 December 1765 ) was a Czech priest, theologian and natural scientist, pioneer of electronic music and the constructor of the first electric musical instrument Denis d ' or.

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

Czech linguist Václav Machek proposes Slovak verb " vrepiť sa " ( stick to, thrust into ), or its hypothetical anagram " vperiť sa " ( in Czech, archaic verb " vpeřit " means " to thrust violently ") as an etymological background, and thus translates " upír " as " someone who thrusts, bites ".

* Václav ( Saint Wenceslas ), Duke of the Bohemians, is murdered by his brother, Boleslav, who succeeds him.

Charles was born to King John of Bohemia and Elisabeth of Bohemia in Prague as Wenceslaus ( Václav ), the name of his maternal grandfather Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia.

King Václav IV ( Wenceslas in English, Wenzel in German ), upon hearing this news, was so stunned that he died shortly after, supposedly due to the shock.

Catholic baroque works span two types: religious poetry such as that of Adam Michna z Otradovic, Fridrich Bridel and Václav Jan Rosa, and religious prose writings ( i. e. homiletic prose and hagiographies ), and historical accounts ( Bohuslav Balbín ), as well as the Jesuit St. Wenceslas Bible.

In literature, this constituted a renewed interest in prose novels ( e. g. Matěj Václav Kramerius ), in Czech history and in the historical development of Czech culture ( e. g. Josef Dobrovský, who re-codified the grammar of the Czech language and Antonín Jaroslav Puchmayer, who systematically set out to develop a Czech poetic style ).

* Václav " Vinny " Prospal ( born 1975 ), ice hockey player

* Václav Nedorost ( born 1982 ), ice hockey player

* Supraphon 1112 1462 ( original LP, copyright date on label 1974 ); Ivo Židek, Helena Tattermuschová, Ludmilla Tržická, Vladimir Topinka ; Vladimir Menci and Oldřich Kredba ( pianos ), Czech Philharmonic Chorus, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Václav Smetáček ( conductor ).

Winners of the award have included: musician Peter Gabriel ( 2008 ), Nelson Mandela ( 2006 ), the Irish rock band U2 ( 2005 ), Mary Robinson and Hilda Morales Trujillo ( a Guatemalan women's rights activist ) ( 2004 ) and the author and public intellectual Václav Havel ( 2003 ).

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

These first seven Carmichael numbers, from 561 to 8911, were all found by the Czech mathematician Václav Šimerka in 1885 ( thus preceding not just Carmichael but also Korselt, although Šimerka did not find anything like Korselt's criterion ).

The Czech President Václav Klaus rejected the term " euroscepticism ", with its purported negative undertones, saying ( at a meeting in April 2012 ) that the expressions for a eurosceptic and his opponent should be " a Euro-realist " and someone who is " Euro-naïve " ( respectively ).

In May 2010, the Czech president Václav Klaus claimed that they " needn ’ t hurry to enter the Euro zone ".

It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, who was a bookseller in Mladá Boleslav, in today's Czech Republic, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his German bicycle.

In elections held in June 1992, Václav Klaus's Civic Democratic Party won in the Czech lands on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, basing its appeal on the fairness of Slovak demands for autonomy.

It was published by John Mason Neale in 1853, and may be a translation of a poem by Czech poet Václav Alois Svoboda.

* President Václav Klaus ( Czech Republic )

The first rector of the Czech University became Václav Vladivoj Tomek.

* British metaphysics as reflected in Robert Broom's evolutionary theory, translation of an article by Václav Petr published in Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 75 ( 1 ): 73-85.

The main feature of the literature of this period is the competition between Catholics writing in Latin, e. g. Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic and Jan Dubravius ) and Protestants writing in Czech, e. g. Viktorin Kornel z Všehrd and Václav Hájek.