Livonia had been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1561, since the Livonian Order was secularized by the Union of Wilno and the Livonian Confederation dissolved during the Livonian Wars.

He tried to cross the Hungarian border to escape from Poland and reach the Polish Army being formed in France, but he failed and finally moved with his family to Wilno.

The university was founded by Polish professors formerly associated with the University of Wilno.

On 20 February 1922 after the highly contested election in Central Lithuania, the entire area was annexed by Poland, with the city becoming the capital of the Wilno Voivodship ( Wilno being the name of Vilnius in Polish ).

The July 1920 note specifically addressed the Polish-Lithuanian dispute by mentioning a line running from Grodno to Vilnius ( Wilno ) and thence north to Daugavpils, Latvia ( Dynaburg ).

Under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet pact, adjusted by agreement on 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union annexed all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Bug and San, except for the area around Vilnius ( known in Polish as Wilno ), which was given to Lithuania, and the Suwałki region, which was annexed by Germany.

The Soviets annexation included all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Bug, and San, except for western part of the Wilno Voivodship with its capital Wilno ( Vilnius ), which was given to Lithuania ( see map ), and the Suwałki region, which was annexed by Nazi Germany.

Territories around Wilno ( now Vilnius ) annexed by Poland in 1920, were transferred to Lithuania on a base of Lithuania-Soviet Union agreement ( however Lithuania was soon annexed by Soviet Union to become the Lithuanian SSR ).

A similar uprising was started by Jakub Jasiński in Vilnius ( Wilno ) on 22 April and soon other cities and towns followed.

Armia Krajowa ) suppression by NKVD / NKGB operations, in and around Wilno ( Vilnius ):

The university was founded in 1579 as the Jesuit Academy ( College ) of Vilnius ( Vilna, Wilno ) by King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania-Stephen Báthory.

He was honored by Poland's Wilno University, by the American Neurological Society, and by other foreign societies.

Dawidowicz made the decision to learn Yiddish, and, at Shatzky's urging, she traveled to Wilno, Poland ( present-day Vilnius, Lithuania ) in 1938 to work at the Yiddish Scientific Institute ( known by its Yiddish acronym as the YIVO ).

After the fall of Poland in 1939, the Polish Tatars in the Wilno ( Vilnius ) based 13th Cavalry Regiment were one of the last Polish Army units recorded carrying on the fight against the German aggressors while lead by Major Aleksander Jeljaszewicz.

Wilno, Hagarty Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada @ www. interment. net / Canada / Ontario recorded by Marty C Byzewski, Apr 30, 2009.

Perkowski wrote about a Kashubian idiolect and was employed by the National Museum of Man in Canada in 1968-9 to conduct research for the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies in the area of Wilno, Ontario, to study Kasshubian Polish folklore and traditions.

Immediately following the outbreak of World War II, Wilno was occupied by the Soviet Union and subsequently by Nazi Germany, and all education for Poles was discontinued.

After the war Wilno ( retrieving its name as Vilnius in the process ) was annexed by the Soviet Union and Konwicki was expatriated.

From then until 1566, he traveled extensively around Europe, with his renown increasing, but remained faithful to his employer in spite of numerous efforts by other monarchs to win him away ; the riches bestowed on him by Sigismund may have affected his decision to remain attached to the court in Vilnius ( Wilno ).

In 1910, Pilecki moved with his family to Wilno ( Vilnius, Lithuania ), where he completed Commercial School and joined the secret ZHP Scouts organization.

He also studied at the Stefan Batory University in Wilno and rebuilt his family estate, ruined during the war.

Schally was born in Wilno, Second Polish Republic ( now Vilnius, Lithuania ), as the son of Gen. Brigadier Kazimierz Schally who was Chief of the Cabinet of President Ignacy Mościcki of Poland and Maria Łącka, Polish noble woman from an old and known family.

Szczuka was born to a middle-class szlachta family and educated in Wilno and Kraków.

He retired the following year and settled in his family manor in Andrzejewo near Wilno.

Emilia Plater was born in Vilnius ( Wilno ) into a noble Polish-Lithuanian Plater family of the Plater coat of arms.

Kozakiewicz was born to a Polish family in Soleczniki ( now Šalčininkai, Lithuania ) near Wilno ( Vilnius, Lithuania ).

Chapel in Wilno, erected to commemorate the crushing of the 1863 January Uprising against Russia, picture taken Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Łupaszko's unit fought against the German army and SS units in the area of southern Wilno Voivodeship, but was also frequently attacked by the Soviet Partisans paradropped in the area by the Red Army.

In August, the commander of all Home Army units in the Wilno area, Gen. Aleksander " Wilk " Krzyżanowski, ordered all six brigades under his command to prepare for Operation Tempest — a planned all-national rising against the German forces occupying Poland.

While initially the lands around the city of Vilna ( Vilnius or Wilno ) had a certain local autonomy, with local nobility holding the same offices as prior to the partitions, after several secessionist revolts against the Russian Empire, the Imperial government started to pursue a policy of both political and cultural assimilation of the newly-acquired lands ( Russification ).

France, however, did not wish to antagonize Poland, seen as an ally against both Germany and USSR, thus the League of Nations demands were not enforced, and Poland kept Wilno under a puppet government of Komisja Rządząca Litwy Środkowej.

Anna was married to Prince Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł on March 6, 1691 ( Wilno ).

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power ; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead. Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, an archetypal Maritime scene

During the pre-Inca period, people lived in clans, which formed great tribes, some allied with each other to form powerful confederations, as the Confederation of Quito.

In 1440 several western and eastern Prussian towns formed the Prussian Confederation, which led the revolt of Prussia against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in 1454.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

* 1768 – Polish nobles formed Bar Confederation.

* 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

In 1993 Honduras had three major labor confederations: the Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación de Trabajadores de Honduras — CTH ), claiming a membership of about 160, 000 workers ; the General Workers Central ( Central General de Trabajadores — CGT ), claiming to represent 120, 000 members ; and the Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras — CUTH ), a new confederation formed in May 1992, with an estimated membership of about 30, 000.

Although it was not legally recognized until 1982, the CGT was originally formed in 1970 by the Christian Democrats and received external support from the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) and the Latin American Workers Central ( Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores — CLAT ), a regional organization supported by Christian Democratic parties.

Zwingli formed an alliance of Reformed cantons which divided the Confederation along religious lines.

Each state formed its own alliances within and without the Confederation.

The Sixth Coalition was formed, and the German states of the Confederation of the Rhine switched sides, finally opposing Napoleon.

Under the terms of the Treaty, Luxembourg and the newly formed Duchy of Limburg, both members of the Germanic Confederation, were together required to provide a Federal Contingent distributed among a Light Infantry Battalion garrisoned in Echternach, a Cavalry Squadron in Diekirch, and an Artillery detachment in Ettelbruck.

The 5 Ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire in Medieval Livonia were organized into the Livonian Confederation in 1418 A diet or Landtag was formed in 1419.

The Northwest Territories entered the Canadian Confederation July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed April 1, 1999, with the creation of Nunavut.

The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

In 1847, the Catholic cantons formed a separate union within the Confederation ( the Sonderbund ).

Following its victory in the war and peace treaty with Great Britain, in 1783 the United States formed a Congress of the Confederation ( informally called the Continental Congress ), to which Jefferson was appointed as a Virginia delegate.

In 1440, the gentry of Thorn formed the Prussian Confederation, and in 1454 rose with the Confederation against the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years ' War.

After adopting the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was formed and convened in Philadelphia from March 1781 until June 1783, when a mob of angry soldiers converged upon Independence Hall, demanding payment for their service during the American Revolutionary War.

A group of nobles supporting Stanisław formed the Confederation of Dzikow late in 1734, and under their commander, Adam Tarło, tried to fight the Russians and Saxons, but their efforts were ineffective.

* May 8 – Asian Football Confederation ( AFC ) was formed in Manila, Philippines.