* 12 August 1919 – Władysław Seyda becomes first Minister of Former Prussian Partition.

Former political internees include Władysław Gomułka and Władysław Frasyniuk.

Actors before Hamlet by Władysław Czachórski ( 1875 ), National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum in Warsaw.

The city was a seat of the Military Department of National Committee, and headquarters for the Polish Legions, which were voluntary troops organized by Józef Piłsudski, Władysław Sikorski, and others to fight against Russia.

The members of the German parliament ( German: Reichstag ) forming the Polish National Democratic Party ( Polish: Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne ), led by Władysław Taczanowski ( 1825 – 1893 ), protested on April 1, 1871 in the parliament of the newly founded united Germany against Prussia joining with all her provinces united Germany.

It formed a Council of National Unity in July 1954, and set up a Council of Three to exercise the functions of head of state, comprising Tomasz Arciszewski, General Władysław Anders, and Edward Raczyński.

As the relations between the Polish government in exile and the Polish Committee of National Liberation worsened, in September 1945, Pilecki accepted orders from General Władysław Anders, commander of the 2nd Polish Corps ( main unit of the Polish Armed Forces in the West ) to return to Poland under a false identity and gather intelligence to be sent to the government in exile.

Władysław Dominik Grabski (; 7 July 1874 – 1 March 1938 ) was a Polish National Democratic politician, economist and historian.

In 1905, Władysław Grabski was elected on behalf of National Democracy a member of three successive sessions of the Duma, the legislative assembly of the Russian Empire.

During the First World War he worked together with Władysław Sikorski in the Supreme National Committee ( Naczelny Komitet Narodowy ).

In November 1925 the government of Prime Minister Władysław Grabski was replaced by the government of Prime Minister Aleksander Skrzyński, which had received support from the National Democracy and the Polish Socialist Party ( PPS ).

# in the socio-political sphere: Senator Stanisław Siedlecki ( president of the Eastern Institute ), Wacław Sieroszewski, Stanisław Trzeciak, Antoni Wincenty Kwiatkowski, Antoni Około-Kułak, Prof. Olgierd Górka ( general secretary and director of the Eastern Institute ), Stanisław Korwin-Pawłowski ( general secretary of the Eastern Institute ), Bolesław Bielawski, Stanisław Józef Paprocki ( director of the Institute for Study of National Minority Affairs ), Leon Wasilewski, Włodzimierz Bączkowski, Feliks Ibiański-Zahora, Wacław Wincenty Łypacewicz, Władysław Wielhorski ( director of the Institute for Study of Eastern Europe, in Vilnius ), Marian Świechowski, Prof. Jan Kucharzewski, Prof. Marceli Handelsman, Prof. Stanisław Poniatowski, Prof. Ludwik Kolankowski, Prof. Oskar Halecki, Prof. Stanisław Franciszek Zajączkowski, Prof. Józef Ujejski, Prof. Stanisław Szober, Andrzej Strug, Marian Malinowski, Alfred Szczęsny Wielopolski, Wojciech Stpiczyński, Józef Łobodowski, Prof. Marian Zdziechowski, Władysław Woydyno.

Władysław Raczkiewicz was sworn in as President and chose General Władysław Sikorski as Prime Minister.

On September 17, 1939, the President of the Polish Republic, Ignacy Mościcki, who was then in the small town of Kuty ( now Ukraine ) near the southern Polish border, issued a proclamation about his plan to transfer power and appointing Władysław Raczkiewicz, the Speaker of the Senate, as his successor.

He then appointed General Władysław Sikorski to be Prime Minister and, following Edward Rydz-Śmigły being relieved by the President, was also made Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces.

Following the Polish Constitution, President Ignacy Mościcki, interned in Romania after the Polish government evacuated itself from Poland on 17 September, resigned and appointed General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski as his successor ; unpopular with the French government, Wieniawa-Długoszowski was replaced by Władysław Raczkiewicz on 29 September.

On June 27, 1942, a new tradition was born: to commemorate the patron saint's day of the Polish President Władysław Raczkiewicz and the Commander-in-Chief Władysław Sikorski, members of the Armia Krajowa stamped several hundred copies of the German-backed propaganda newspaper, Nowy Kurier Warszawski ( The New Warsaw Courier ), with the Kotwica.

President Raczyński at some point considered naming Władysław Bartoszewski as his successor, as he wanted to choose someone " from the country " and with strong ties to the Polish opposition movement.

After Prime Minister General Władysław Sikorski's death on 4 July 1943, President Władysław Raczkiewicz called upon Stanisław Mikołajczyk, who had been acting as Prime Minister in General Sikorski absence, to form a Government.

On 31 December 1942 while flying a Spitfire Mk IX ( Serial No. EN128 ) he scored the 500th victory for the UK based Polish Air Force in the war and was later decorated by Polish President Władysław Raczkiewicz.

* 1911 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist ( d. 2000 )

Soon Polish artists started experimenting with other genres of cinema: in 1910 Władysław Starewicz made one of the first animated cartoons in the world-and the first to use the stop motion technique, the Piękna Lukanida ( Beautiful Lukanida ).

* 1905 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader ( d. 1982 )

The homage was renewed in 1633 after the election of a new Polish king, Władysław IV Waza.

Some of them refused to fight against blacks, supporting the principles of liberty ; also, a few Poles ( around 100 ) actually joined the rebels ( Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski was one of the Polish generals ).

Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila ( Władysław II Jagiełło ), the Jagiellon dynasty ( 1386 – 1572 ) formed the Polish – Lithuanian union.

As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on.

Her actions promoted the reign of her husband: Upon the death of the Polish High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks in 1231, Henry also became Duke of Greater Poland and the next year prevailed as High Duke at Kraków.

* Władysław Podkowiński, a Polish Impressionist and symbolist

* Władysław III of Poland and Lithuania ( 1424 – 1444 ), Polish name Władysław Warneńczyk, also king of Hungary, known posthumously as Vladislaus III of Varna

* 1867 – Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1925 )

On 10 November 1444, Murad II defeated the Hungarian, Polish and Wallachian armies under Władysław III of Poland ( also King of Hungary ) and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna, which was the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.

* 1918 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist ( d. 1968 )

* 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.

Steinhaus, Banach and Nikodym, along with several other Kraków mathematicians ( Władysław Ślebodziński, Leon Chwistek, Jan Kroć, and Włodzimierz Stożek ) also established a mathematical society, which eventually became the Polish Mathematical Society.

After the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, Bishop Heinrich Vogelsang of Warmia surrendered to King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, and later with Bishop Henry of Sambia gave homage to the Polish king at the Polish camp during the siege of Marienburg Castle ( Malbork ).

* 1444: Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeats the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna.

* December 5 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoirist ( d. 2000 )

* May 20 – Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician ( d. 1943 )

** General Secretary of the Polish Communist Party, Władysław Gomułka, resigns ; Edward Gierek replaces him.

** Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.

** Władysław Czartoryski, Polish political activist and art collector ( b. 1828 )

* Władysław Vasa of Poland ( 1595 – 1648 ), Polish Prince, self-proclaimed Grand Duke of Moscow, and future King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth