Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

Three weeks later, the bridegroom was hurried away by his father to Toruń to superintend the provisioning of the Russian troops in Poland.

St. Vojtěch was later made the patron saint of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Prussia.

During the 1573 Polish election, Albert Frederick attempted to gain acceptance to the Polish senate but was opposed by the powerful Jan Zamoyski ( later Grand Hetman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ) who feared the influence of Protestants in the Polish legislative body.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

It is generally assumed by scholars that the Bastarnae's original home was around the Vistula river ( central Poland ) and that they migrated south-eastwards to the Black Sea region around 200 BC ( as, 400 years later, did the Gothic ethnos ).

Although effective in quick campaigns against Poland and France, mobile operations could not be sustained by Germany in later years.

The Brezhnev Doctrine stayed in effect until it was finally ended with the Soviet non-invasion of Poland during the 1980-1981 crisis and later refusal of Mikhail Gorbachev to use military force when Poland held free elections in 1989 and Solidarity defeated the Communist Party.

These later annexed territories include Eastern Poland ( incorporated into two different SSRs ), Latvia ( became Latvia SSR ), Estonia ( became Estonian SSR ), Lithuania ( became Lithuania SSR ), part of eastern Finland ( became part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ) and northern Romania ( became the Moldavian SSR ).

He was also apparently unaware that the document related to territory later called Poland.

In 1989, the ban was repealed after the overthrow of the Communist government in Poland, and the film was shown in theaters for the first time later that year.

Pomerelia became part of Royal Prussia, a newly established province of the Kingdom of Poland, and later on of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

He then served in the Franco-Prussian War and later became district medical officer in Wollstein ( Wolsztyn ), Prussian Poland.

Eleven days later, the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was modified, allotting Germany a larger part of Poland, while ceding most of Lithuania to the Soviet Union.

Jadwiga's death undermined Jogaila's position as King of Poland, but he managed to retain the throne until his death 35 years later.

The British historian D. C. Watt wrote " Two hours later, Berlin Radio broadcast the sixteen points, adding that Poland had rejected them.

Lithuania however needed a close alliance with Poland when, at the end of the 15th century, the growing power of the Grand Duchy of Moscow threatened some of Lithuania's Rus ' principalities and sparked the Muscovite – Lithuanian Wars and later the Livonian War.

In 1467, Elisabeth, Queen of Poland, the last surviving sister, and later their son Philip the Handsome.

The same procedure was used in naming these two Polish provinces – the " older " one, the cradle of Polish statehood, was called Greater Poland, while her " younger sister ", which became part of Poland a few years later, was called Lesser Poland.

The attempts to create a Masurian Polish national consciousness, largely originating from nationalist circles of Greater Poland, however faced the resistance of the Masurians, who, despite having similar folk traditions and linguistics to Poles, regarded themselves Prussians and later Germans.

Six months later, on Christmas Day, Mieszko II Lambert was crowned King of Poland by the Archbishop of Gniezno, Hipolit, in the Gniezno Cathedral.

Poland later rejoined the band to record their second album Peace Sells ...

After the Riga Peace Treaty he was allowed to return to Poland, where he rejoined the Polish Army.

In 1786 he rejoined Father Hübl and went to Warsaw in Poland where the papal nuncio gave them responsibility for the parish of Saint Benno ; their mission thrived until the community was expelled in 1808.

* 1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist ( Megadeth )

Anthrax, along with Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth performed on the same bill for the first time on June 16, 2010 at Bemowo Airport in Warsaw, Poland.

Chris Poland ( born December 1, 1957 ) is an American guitarist, best known for being a former member of thrash metal band Megadeth.

After seeing Samuelson perform live with Megadeth, Poland went backstage and suggested an impromptu audition as a lead guitarist.

After leaving Megadeth, Poland was treated successfully for substance abuse, and joined punk rock legends The Circle Jerks as a bass player.

In a surprise turn in 2004, Dave Mustaine requested Poland to record guitar solos for the Megadeth record The System Has Failed, the first Megadeth album not to feature original bass player and founding member David Ellefson.

Poland and Mustaine subsequently came into dispute with one another over payments relating to the album, however, they appear to have made amends once more as Poland began posting on the official Megadeth online message board.

Chris Poland played with Circle Jerks briefly after being fired from Megadeth ( Zander Schloss had left the band by that point ).

After meeting with Dave Mustaine and Dave Ellefson of Megadeth in 1984, he joined the band, and Poland soon followed, this being what Mustaine refers to as ' the first real line-up '.

After leaving Megadeth in 1987, guitarist Chris Poland recorded a solo album, Return to Metalopolis, in 1990.

As musician, producer, songwriter, or all three at once, Waterbury has worked with members of The Doors ( Robbie Krieger ), and Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos guitarist ( Anthony Gallo ), Tears for Fears, the late, great Randy California, Pink, Mark Kendall of Great White, Ray Charles, 4 Non Blondes, Michael Jackson ( Leon Abner ), Terri Nunn of Berlin, Betsy of " Bitch ", Marco Mendoza ( of Whitesnake and Ted Nugent ), The Zeros ' Sammy Serious, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Doobie Brothers ( Michael McDonald and Keith Knutsen ), Guitar Jack, Uli Jon Roth of Scorpions, drummer Brian Tichy, Los Angeles Lakers cheerleaders, Chris Poland of Megadeth, David Eagle ( Tina Turner's band ), and bassist Renny of ( Parliament ) and Donna Summer.

The wedding was celebrated at Torgau, the palace of the Queen of Poland, on 14 October 1711.

In Poland, Arbor Day is celebrated on October 10.

In late October 1938, when he was living in a rented room in the home of a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland.

Because of Hitler's September 1 invasion of Poland, it was October before they could arrange for the letter to be personally delivered.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

On 14 February 1479 at Frankfurt ( Oder ) he was married to Sophia of Poland ( 6 April 1464-5 October 1512 ), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King Sigismund I of Poland.

After annexing the Sudetenland border country of Czechoslovakia ( October 1938 ), and taking over the rest of the Czech lands as a protectorate ( March 1939 ), the German Reich and the Soviet Union invaded Poland on first September 1939 predominantly as part of the Wehrmacht operation codenamed Fall Weiss.

On the ground in Poland in October – November the final upsurge of the push for independence was taking place, with Ignacy Daszyński heading a short-lived Polish government in Lublin from November 6.

In October 1938, 484 Hanoverian Jews of Polish origin were expelled to Poland, including the Grynszpan family.

Saint Hedwig of Silesia (), also Saint Hedwig of Andechs (, ) ( 1174 – 15 October 1243 ) from the comital House of Andechs was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238.

After two years ' negotiations with Jadwiga's mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, who was regent of Hungary, and a civil war in Greater Poland ( 1383 ), Jadwiga finally came to Kraków and at the age of ten, on 16 October 1384 ( or 1385, sources vary ), was crowned King of Poland — Hedvig Rex Poloniæ, not Hedvig Regina Poloniæ.

Nevertheless, by October 5, 1939, Riefenstahl was back in occupied Poland filming Hitler ’ s victory parade in Warsaw.

This heightened tension between Lithuania and Poland and led to fears that they would resume the Polish – Lithuanian War, and on 7 October 1920, the League negotiated the Suwałki Agreement establishing a cease-fire and a demarcation line between the two nations.

In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

A sanitary convention was also concluded between the governments of Poland and Czechoslovakia on 5 September 1925, for which ratifications were exchanged on 22 October 1926.

This group, numbering about 3, 000, elected Frederick August II King of Poland as Augustus III on October 5.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

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