On July 26, 1295, Jakub Świnka concluded his first major political victory: despite lack of papal acceptance, he crowned Przemysł II the King of Poland in the cathedral of Gniezno.

In 1527 bishop Piotr Tomicki founded a bell for the church and between 1637 and 1642 Manierist palace was erected near the market place by Bishop Jakub Zadzik.

A number of Polish Jews participated in the establishment of the Stalinist regime in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1956, holding, among others, prominent posts in the Politburo of the Polish United Worker's Party ( e. g. Jakub Berman, Hilary Minc – responsible for establishing a Communist-style economy ), and the security apparatus Urząd Bezpieczeństwa ( UB ) and in diplomacy / intelligence.

Most famous sportsmen: Paulina Maj, Wanda Wiecha ( volleyball ), Jakub Wawrzyniak ( soccer )-national teams players.

In 1413 in Horodło ( during the signing of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Union ), Pobóg clan represented by Jakub of Koniecpol and Piotr of Popow had adopted Lithuanian boyar Rało.

During the 2008 – 09 season, Richards tallied 16 goals and 48 points in 55 games before sustaining a broken right wrist following a check from Columbus Blue Jackets forward Jakub Voráček on February 16, 2009.

Maciej Płażyński was married to Elżbieta Płażyńska and together they had three children: Jakub, Katarzyna, and Kacper.

Two novels by Gombrowicz were filmed: Pornografia directed by Jan Jakub Kolski ( the film was completed in 2003 ) and Ferdydurke directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.

It is believed that it was Joseph Stalin who put pressure on Bolesław Bierut and Jakub Berman to remove Gomułka and Spychalski as well as their followers from power in 1948.

Wajda was born in Suwałki, Poland, the son of Aniela ( née Biaxowas ), a school teacher, and Jakub Wajda, an army officer.

His father, Jakub Sobieski, was the Palatine of Ruthenia and Castellan of Kraków ; his mother, Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz was a granddaughter of Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski.

James Louis Sobieski ( full name in Polish: Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski ; 2 November 1667 – 19 December 1737 ) was the son of King John III of Poland and Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d ' Arquien.

He was named after his grandfather Jakub, his godfather King Louis XIV ( Ludwik ) and the exiled Queen Henrietta ( Henryk ) Maria of England, his godmother.

Between 1651 and 1661 part of Gambia was ( indirectly ) a colony of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; it was purchased by the Courlandish duke Jakub Kettler.

These were captured by Wenceslaus who now, after gaining most of the Polish lands, is crowned in Gniezno as king of Poland by archbishop Jakub Świnka Upon the deaths of Wenceslaus and his successor Wenceslaus III and with them the extinction of the Přemyslid dynasty, Pomerelia was recaptured by Władysław I the Elbow-high in 1306.

Wejherowo was founded in 1643 as Wola Wejherowska, by the voivode of the Malbork Voivodeship, Jakub Wejher, with the consent of King Władysław IV Vasa of Poland.

In June, 1945 Zofia Kossak was called in by Jakub Berman, the new Polish Minister of the Interior, a Jew.

With three Polish provinces in his hands ( Greater Poland, Lesser Poland and Mazovia ), Charles Gustav decided to head back northwards, to Royal Prussia, which was defended by Voivode of Malbork, Jakub Wejher.

As he was the strongest Polish duke of the time, possessed the royal insignia from Kraków, and had support of the clergy for the unification of Poland, he was crowned king of Poland in 1295 by the archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Świnka, and five other bishops.

In 1296, he was kidnapped by men of the electors of Brandenburg, with some help from the Polish noble families of Nałęcz and Zaremba, and murdered on 8 February in Rogoźno by Jakub Kaszuba.

It was led by bookseller Walenty Stefański, poet Ryszard Berwiński and lawyer Jakub Krauthofer-Krotowski.

It was also the site of a Jewish commune of 50, 000 led by Jakub Egit from 1945-1948.

The city itself, at that time part of Sandomierz Voivodeship, was built from scratch in 1597 by Jakub Gawroński of Rawa coat of arms on the left bank of the Kamienna river, situated in the Vistula river basin.

During the time of Reformation the starost of Konin was Jakub Ostroróg-person of merit with regard to hawking about the very idea of Reformation and well disposed to apostates.

The principal building adjacent to the tower and facing the Main Square was built by the town Mayor Jacobus II ( also called Jakab, Jakub ) in the 14th century, while the tower ( originally Gothic ) was erected in the late 13th century.

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

King John III Sobieski with son James Louis Sobieski | Jakub, whom he tried to position to be his successor.

Kościuszko proposed that Prince Józef lead the insurrection in Lithuania, where he was demoting the radical and successful leader Jakub Jasiński, but Poniatowski, not wanting to be so far from his uncle who needed him, declined.

Masculine names occasionally take an-a suffix, which is a more archaic Slavic form as in Russian ( e. g. Jakub → Kuba ).

Ballaban received further help from the Sultan and was sent leading Ottoman Armies against Skanderbeg once more, alongside an Albanian Pasha called Jakub Bej Arnauti, this time near Upper Dibra, in the Valley of Vaikal, but Ballaban, Jacub Bej Arnauti, and Ottoman Armies were again defeated.

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* 1952 – Jakub Polák, Czech activist ( d. 2012 )

** Jakub Zadzik, Polish nobleman and diplomat ( d. 1642 )

* 1285 – January 6 – Archbishop Jakub Świnka orders all priests subject to his bishopry in Poland to deliver sermons in Polish rather than German, thus further unifying the Catholic Church in Poland and fostering a national identity.

* May 5 – Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble ( d. 1646 )

The conflict continued, even after the unsuccessful attempts for mediation by the Archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Świnka.

* Jakub Swinka becomes archbishop of Gniezno.

* January 6 – Archbishop Jakub Świnka orders all priests subject to his bishopry in Poland to deliver sermons in Polish rather than German, thus further unifying the Catholic Church in Poland and fostering a national identity.

This decade also marked the return of Catholic authors ( Josef Florian, Jakub Deml, Jaroslav Durych, Josef Váchal ) and the first entrance of the avant-garde into Czech literature, seeking to document the rapid changes in society and modernization.

The war, however, also precipitated a crisis of values, of faith in progress, religion, and belief, which found outlet in expressionism ( Ladislav Klíma, Jakub Deml, Richard Weiner ), civilism ( Čapek brothers ) and visions of a universal brotherhood of mankind ( Ivan Olbracht, Karel Matěj Čapek Chod, F. X. Šalda ).

Surviving documents attest that around 1437 a representative of the Raczków family, Jakub Tabutowicz of the coat of arms Łabędź, received from Michael Žygimantaitis son of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Duke of Lithuania, a wilderness area located along the river Biała that marked the beginning of Białystok as a settlement.

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In 2005, Jakub Postrzygacz became the first person to traverse the entire track without backup, travelling alone by bicycle for 33 days.

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