* 1867 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman ( d. 1935 )

Roman Dmowski exerted strong ideological influence, but political power was to be monopolized by Józef Piłsudski

The 1905 Russian Revolution arose new waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively.

" The Commandant ": Józef Piłsudski | Piłsudski with Polish Legions in World War I | his men in 1915

* 1935 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman ( b. 1867 )

* 1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

* 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland-symbolic first day of Polish independence.

Józef Piłsudski is appointed Commander-in-Chief.

** Józef Piłsudski is appointed head of state of Poland.

* May 12 – May 14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland.

* October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland.

The knotty economic problems also favoured the rise of dictators in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, such as Józef Piłsudski in the Second Polish Republic and Peter and Alexander Karađorđević in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

* May 12 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish politician ( b. 1867 )

One of the older students at this gymnasium was his future arch-enemy, Józef Piłsudski.

Poland's Józef Piłsudski, who envisioned the formation of an Intermarum Federation as a Central and East European bloc that would be a bulwark against Germany to the west and Russia to the east, carried out a Kiev Offensive into Ukraine in 1920.

There he met and befriended Józef Piłsudski.

In 1926, after disputes over the direction of the government ( Wojciechowski favoring a continuation of parliamentary democracy over increased authoritarianism ), his old friend Józef Piłsudski staged a coup d ’ etat and Wojciechowski resigned from office.

Józef Piłsudski and his staff in Kielce, in front of the Gubernator ' Palace, 1914

After the outbreak of World War I, Kielce was the first Polish city to be liberated from Russian rule by the Polish Legions under Józef Piłsudski.

The frontiers between Poland, which had established an unstable independent government following World War I, and the former Tsarist empire, were rendered chaotic by the repercussions of the Russian revolutions, the civil war and the winding down World War I. Poland's Józef Piłsudski envisioned a new federation ( Międzymorze ), forming a Polish-led East European bloc to form a bulwark against Russia and Germany, while the RSFSR considered carrying the revolution westward by force.

A few of the notable visitors to the region: Elisabeth of Bavaria, empress of Austria-Hungary, 1837-1898 ( who travelled to the island for leisure and health ), Charles I of Austria, Emperor Austria and King of Hungary, 1867 – 1918, Polish Field Marshal Józef Piłsudski in order to recuperate his health, Winston Churchill ( who travelled here on holidays and was known to have painted a few paintings during his visits ) and Fulgencio Batista ( who stopped-over en-route to his exile in Spain ).

* Piłsudski's Mound in Kraków honors Polish general and politician Józef Piłsudski.

On August 16, Polish forces commanded by Józef Piłsudski counterattacked from the south, disrupting the enemy's offensive, forcing the Russian forces into a disorganised withdrawal eastward and behind the Neman River.

" The failure at Locarno may be also one of the contributory factors in the decision of Józef Piłsudski to overthrow parliamentary democracy in Poland.

By the end of March 1998, a large group of government and nongovernment leaders, including then Chief of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Wiesław Walendziak, 130 Sejm deputies, 16 senators, former President Lech Wałęsa, Cardinal Józef Glemp, and Gdańsk Archbishop Tadeusz Rokoczy, went on record as opposing the removal of the cross.

The Treaty of Versailles had only vaguely defined the frontiers between Poland and Bolshevik Russia, and post-war events created further turmoil and Poland's Chief of State, Józef Piłsudski, felt the time was right to expand Polish borders as far east as feasible, to be followed by a Polish-led Intermarum federation of East-Central-European states as a bulwark against the re-emergence of German and Russian imperialisms.

Before the start of the Polish – Soviet War, Polish politics were strongly influenced by Chief of State ( naczelnik państwa ) Józef Piłsudski.

Prince Józef Poniatowski Commander in Chief of forces of Duchy of Warsaw, by Juliusz Kossak

** Chief of state Józef Piłsudski signs decree officially allowing 16 MPs from Prussian Partition to participate in Sejm Ustawodawczy.

On 13 August 1920, Józef Piłsudski, Poland's Chief of State, left Warsaw and established a military headquarters in Puławy.

However, it was still largely subordinate to the president and, until the death of coup-instigator Józef Piłsudski, Chief of State.

Pilsudski or Piłsudski most commonly refer to Józef Piłsudski, Polish politician, military leader, marshal, Chief of State.

* Józef Piłsudski, statesman, Chief of State, First Marshal, and leader of the Second Polish Republic, born in Zalavas ( Polish: Zułów ), current Lithuania,

The more important signals were read in their entirety by the Chief of the General Staff, and even by the Commander in Chief, Marshal Józef Piłsudski.

Maria Piłsudska née Koplewska ( 1865-17 August 1921 ) was the first wife of Poland's Marshal Józef Piłsudski and ostensibly the first lady of Poland during most of his service as Poland's Chief of State.

To gather enough forces for the offensive, Gen. Józef Piłsudski, Polish Commander in Chief, ordered all available units to move to the Wieprz area and withdrew a number of formations from the Polish Southern Front, leaving only two-and-a-half infantry divisions to oppose the 12th Red Army and Budyonny ’ s cavalry.

There he met Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the pianist and premier, Marshal Józef Piłsudski, the Chief of State and military commander, and General Maxime Weygand, head of the French military mission in mid-1920.

After the re-establishment of Poland's independence following World War I, it was ( with a hiatus, 1922 – 26 ) the residence of Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Chief of State ( 1918 – 22 ) and later ( 1926 – 35 ) Minister of Military Affairs of Poland, who died there in 1935.

After a staged mutiny arranged by Polish Chief of State Józef Piłsudski carried out of Polish forces led by general Lucjan Żeligowski took control over Vilnius in the fall of 1920.

During the armistice, in early February in Paris, three pacts were discussed by Polish Chief of State Józef Piłsudski and French President Alexandre Millerand: political, military, and economic.

During the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 21 ) he worked in the press office of Chief of State Józef Piłsudski.