The Battle of Berestechko (; ) was fought between the Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, aided by their Crimean Tatar allies, and a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army under King John II Casimir.

In 1654 the Ukrainian leader, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, offered to place Ukraine under the protection of the Russian Tsar, Aleksey I. Aleksey's acceptance of this offer led to another Russo-Polish War ( 1654 – 1667 ).

* December 27 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine ( d. 1657 )

* August 6 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian Cossack Hetman ( b. c. 1595 )

By the mid-17th century, the linguistic divergence between the Ukrainian and Russian languages was so acute that there was a need for translators during negotiations for the Treaty of Pereyaslav, between Bohdan Khmelnytsky, head of the Zaporozhian Host, and the Russian state.

Initially a vassal of Poland-Lithuania, the increasing social and religious pressure from the Commonwealth caused them to proclaim an independent Cossack Hetmanate, initiated by a rebellion under Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the mid-17th century.

In 1648 the Zaporizhian Host ( the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth subject ) elected the Hetman of their own ( Bohdan Khmelnytsky ) igniting the Ukrainian struggle for independence.

Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky | Bohdan Zinoviy Khmelnytsky

The city, however, faced numerous invasions, including the siege by the Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648, the leader of the uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1648 – 1654 ) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state, and during the Swedish Deluge in 1656.

The bloody pogroms of Bohdan Khmelnytsky had wiped out one third of the Jewish population and destroyed many centers of Jewish learning and communal life.

; 1648-1654: Ukrainian Cossacks and peasants led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky destroyed hundreds of Jewish communities and committed mass atrocities.

On the May 16, 1648 he was one of the many noble Polish prisoners who fell into the hands of Bohdan Khmelnytsky at the battle of Zhovti Vody, but he was quickly ransomed.

File: Denkmal bohdan chmelnyzkyj. jpg | Statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev

In 1648, Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a popular uprising of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Ukrainian peasants discontented with the rule of Polish and Lithuanian magnates.

Meanwhile, Rakoczi had already been negotiating with Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and on September 7, 1656, Transilvania and Zaporizhian Sich signed a peace treaty, which obliged both sides to help each other in war.

On December 8, 1656, the Treaty of Radnot was signed, which divided Poland-Lithuania between Charles X Gustav, Bogusław Radziwiłł, Elector Frederick William, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and George II Rákóczi.

In January 1654, the anti-Polish alliance of Pereiaslav was concluded between the rebellious Cossack Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Alexis of Russia, who was in control of a well-equipped army that was undergoing modernization.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky sent an expedition headed by the Kiev colonel to Halychyna which soon turned back due to mutiny within its ranks.

Worn out from previous campaigns and requesting Bohdan Khmelnytsky to break with Sweden, Alexis of Russia eventually signed the Truce of Vilna or Niemież with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and did not engage the Swedish army in any major battle throughout 1657 even though he still reinforced his armies in Livonia.

* Bohdan Khmelnytsky

* Bohdan Lepky ; writer

; 1648 – 1655: The Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Chmielnicki leads a massacre of Polish gentry and Jewry that leaves an estimated 65, 000 Jews dead and a similar number of gentry.

Furthermore, the wars of the mid-17th century destroyed the town twice ; first in 1648, when the town was burned by the Cossacks of Bohdan Khmelnytsky ; then in 1655, by the Swedes during the deluge.

During the Cossack rebellion of Bohdan Khmelnytsky ( 1640 ), it was captured by Cossacks who carried out a pogrom against the city's Jewish population ; the Poles retook it by assault, killing 24, 000 persons and burning 5, 000 houses.

Eugeniusz Bodo ( born Bohdan Eugène Junod ; 18991943 ) was a film director, producer and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the inter-war period.

Occasionally, KGB assassinated the enemies of the USSR abroad — principally Soviet Bloc defectors, either directly or by aiding Communist country secret services — The killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists members Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera by Bohdan Stashynsky in Munich in 1957 and 1959, as well as the unrelated slayings of emigre dissidents like Abdurahman Fatalibeyli ; the surreptitious ricin poisoning of the Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, shot with an umbrella-gun of KGB design, in 1978 ; The defection of assassins like Nikolai Khokhlov and Bohdan Stashynsky severely curtailed such activities however, and the KGB largely gave up assassinations abroad after Stashynsky's defection, although they continued assisting the Eastern European sister services in doing so.

In reality, the Poles were not only greatly outnumbered, especially after they were deserted by all the Cossacks who had switched sides and joined Bohdan Khmelnytsky, but also their commander, Stefan Potocki, was only 24 years old ; despite that the battle, though eventually lost by the Poles, lasted for nearly three weeks.

Other well known monuments include: the monument commemorating the poet Józef Bohdan Zaleski at Basztowa Street, showing harpist with a guide boy, made in 1886 by Pius Welonski ; the Monument of Jagiello and Jadwiga at Planty Park, made by Tomas Oscar Sosnowski and raised in 1886 in celebration of the quincentenary of the Union between Poland and Lithuania ; and the Monument of Lilia Weneda at Planty Park, erected to commemorate poet Juliusz Slowacki showing a character from the poet's drama playing a harp, made by Alfred Daun in 1884.

As it was the custom in the Orthodox Church, he was baptized with one of his middle names — Theodor, translated into Ukrainian as Bohdan.

* Mace, James E. " The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine ", Famine in Ukraine 1932 – 1933: A Memorial Exhibition, edited by Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko.

* 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet ( d. 1941 )

The misfortunes were started in 1648 by Bohdan Chmielnicki, who started a large-scale Cossack uprising in Ukraine.

Michał was the son of a successful but controversial military commander, Jeremi Michał Wiśniowiecki, known for his ruthless actions against Bohdan Chmielnicki's Uprising.

From 1648, the start of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's uprising, a hetman was the head of the whole Ukrainian State-Hetmanshchyna.

The first issues were produced and written by a small team, consisting of editor Dennis Jarrett, a writer ( future editor Bohdan Buciak ) and editorial assistant Nicky Chapman.

* 1999 Dr. Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University

* Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn ( 1926, Ukraine ) – Chairman International Management Institute – Kyiv ( IMI-Kyiv ), Honorary Council of Ukraine

Amongst the most significant contemporary orchestral ensembles are the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra of Bratislava, the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Kosice, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra ( known as the Warchalovci after their founder Bohdan Warchal ), and the chamber orchestra Capella Istropolitana.

* Bohdan Lepky ( 1872 – 1941 ), literature

** " Assassination on City Hall " – as it was dominated by Germans, the Execution Department of Worker's and Soldier's Council proceeded to Poznań's City Hall, an armed group of Poles forced them to change four of the German Delegates with Poles: Bohdan Hulewicz, Mieczysław Paluch, Henryk Śniegocki and Zygmunt Wiza.

* Józef Bohdan Zaleski ( 1802 – 1886 ), Polish poet

This was partly driven by publication in both Russian and Ukrainian, including journals ( such as Kostomarov's Osnova, 1861 – 62, and Hlibov's Chernyhosvs ’ kyy Lystok, 1861 – 63 ), historical and folkloristic monographs ( Kostomarov's biography of Cossack hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Kulish's two-volume Zapiski o Yuzhnoy Rusi, ‘ Notes on Southern Rus ’’, 1856 – 57 ), and elementary primers ( Kulish's Hramatka, 1857, 1861, Shevchenko's Bukvar Yuzhnoruskiy, 1861 ).

* Bohdan Khmelnytsky – a hetman of the Zaporizhian Cossacks

* Bohdan X ( Friday punk show, 1978 – 1995 )

Bohdan Pomahač, replaced the nose, upper lip, cheeks, and roof of the mouth – along with corresponding muscles, bones and nerves – of James Maki, age 59.

Bohdan Szyszkowski ( b. June 20, 1873 in Trybuchy, Podolia, Russia ( now village in Ukraine ) – August 13, 1931 in Myślenice, Poland ) was a Polish chemist and member of PAU.

A Vilnius panegyric in Khmelnytsky's honor ( 1650 – 1651 ) explained it this way: " While in Poland, it is King Jan II Casimir Vasa, in Rus it is Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky ".

* Bohdan Khmelnytsky ( 1648 – 1657 ) was the first Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate, who is credited for ending Poland's control of Ukraine which he placed under the protection of Russia.

After Bohdan Khmelnytsky's rebellion, when the Tsardom of Russia acquired parts of Eastern Ukraine from the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, some Cossacks stayed in the southeast of the Commonwealth.