From his death, Polish became the sole language of the family, thus fully Polonising the Jagiello family.

After George Frederick's death in 1603, the Polish king Zygmunt Waza appointed Joachim Frederick as regent in 1605, and permitted his son, John Sigismund, to succeed him in 1611.

The Connor family were central to many storylines during 2007 — the accidental death of a Polish worker at Underworld due to overworking, Michelle's discovery that her brothers Paul and Liam were the cause of her husband's death, Paul's use of an escort service, his kidnapping of Leanne and his subsequent death.

He sanctioned a code of laws for Great and Lesser Poland, which gained for him the title of " the Polish Justinian " and founded the University of Kraków which is the oldest Polish university, although his death temporarily stalled the university's development ( which is why it is today called the " Jagiellonian " rather than " Casimirian " University ).

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

Upon his father's death in October 1611, a sixteen-year-old Gustavus inherited the throne ( declared of age and able to reign himself at seventeen as of 16 December ), as well as an ongoing succession of occasionally belligerent dynastic disputes with his Polish cousin.

Her actions promoted the reign of her husband: Upon the death of the Polish High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks in 1231, Henry also became Duke of Greater Poland and the next year prevailed as High Duke at Kraków.

" I think it contributed to his death ," said Zbigniew Brzezinski, a friend and fellow Polish exile.

He was never ousted, not even after the death of his second wife, and eventually succeeded to found a dynasty in Poland by the sons of his last wife, who were not related to earlier Polish rulers.

The 2, 000 Tatar raiders who fought on the Polish side – before their return to Crimea – demolished most townships and caused the death of over 50 % of the population of southern Prussian region ( later Masuria ) within the years 1656 – 1657, taking 3, 400 people into slavery.

After the death of Bezprym, the Polish throne remained vacant.

:: Poland was indeed blind before, knowing nothing about the true God or the principles of the Catholic faith, but thanks to the enlightenment of Mieszko the country also had become enlightened, because when he adopted the faith, the Polish nation was saved from death and destruction.

: In one of the largest civil disturbances in the city's history, fighting between Swedish, Hungarian and Polish immigrants results in the shooting death of one man and injuring several others before broken up by police .< ref > A Race Riot In Denver.

Ever since the death of Sigismund II Augustus in 1572, Polish kings were elected by Polish nobility.

Former Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński hoped to be elected king once again upon the death of his old adversary, Augustus II of Saxony, who had failed in his attempts to make the Polish crown hereditary within his family.

In exchange for Russian support, he agreed to give up any remaining Polish claims to Livonia, and promised to Anna of Russia her choice of successor to the Duchy of Courland, a Polish fief ( of which she had been duchess prior to her ascension to the Russian throne ) which would have otherwise come under direct Polish rule on the death of the current duke, Ferdinand Kettler, who had no heirs.

The acquisition of Lorraine for the former Polish king, however, proved of lasting benefit to France, as it passed under direct French rule with Stanisław's death in 1766.

From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party ( which was founded in 1918 ) was minimal.

* Riverside ( band ), a Polish progressive metal / rock band

* August 4 – Patryk Dominik Sztyber, Polish metal musician

* Trauma ( Polish band ), a Polish death metal band

In the early 1980s, in the times of martial law, Polish heavy metal began its existence.

TSA and Turbo were the first Polish heavy metal bands.

A lot of Polish heavy metal bands played at Jarocin Music Festival.

This band was the symbol of metal rebellion in Poland and first Polish band who openly attacked Church.

Most popular Polish thrash metal bands were Wilczy Pająk ( Wolf Spider ), Dragon, Destroyers, Hammer, Open Fire, STOS, Hellias and Alastor.

The death metal band Vader is considered the most successful Polish heavy metal act and have gained commercial and critical praise internationally.

* Nergal is also the stage name of Adam Darski, the vocalist / guitarist of the Polish black / death metal band Behemoth.

German propaganda magazine Die Wehrmacht reported on 13 September that the Poles had gravely underestimated German weapons, as Polish propaganda had suggested that German armored vehicles were only covered with sheet metal, leading to a grotesque attack.

's albums ), newschool ( Paluch, Aifam ), rapcore ( Kazik ), ragga ( AbraDab ), crunk ( Połnocny Toruń Projekt ), bounce ( Tede ) or gangsta /" street " rap Razem Ponad Kilo, Fabuła, Dixon 37, Hemp Gru, Chada, Sobota, Peja-especially his earliest recordings ), some of the artists also mix the genres ( Słoń had hardcore punk and metal vocalists as guests on his solo albums and mixtapes with Shellerini, NON Koneksja mixes reggaeton with gangsta rap, Firma has reggae and grime influences but is mostly a gangsta / street rap group ), but the majority of Polish rappers, both on the mainstream and underground scenes, is the trueschool rap, which resembles the East Coast sound with reflective lyrics about life and other important personal subjects ( however in the underground the reflective subjects are often abandoned and replaced with emphasis on the advanced techniques of writing lyrics and rapping, such as multiple rhymes and various puns-this style is represented by Dinal, consisting of Pan Wankz, Mejdej and Urbek, Okoliczny Element, which consists of Mejdej, Ninjah and Szufla, and solo rappers such as Smarki Smark, Zkibwoy, LaikIke1 ).

In the town there is a metal plaque to General Sikorski and the Polish troops commemorating the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the town on 7 March 1941.

Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991.

They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate.

The Mine detector ( Polish ) Mark I was a metal detector for landmines developed during World War II in the winter of 1941 – 1942 by Polish lieutenant Józef Kosacki.

* Lucifer, a song by Polish metal band Behemoth

* The Beast ( Vader album ), an album by Polish death metal band Vader

* Transkarpatia, the fifth album by the Polish symphonic black metal band Darzamat

* Black River ( band ), a Polish stoner rock / heavy metal band

* TSA ( band ), a Polish heavy metal / hard rock band

* Atmosphere ( Polish band ), a Polish rock band

* Atmosphere ( Atmosphere album ), the debut album by Polish rock band, Atmosphere

* Goya ( band ), a Polish pop group

From 2000 to 2007, he was a member of the platinum-record-winning Polish progressive rock band SBB.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

* Raz, Dwa, Trzy, Polish music band

* Lombard ( band ), Polish rock band

* Sixteen is a Polish band that represented Poland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.

* Satellite ( Polish band ), Polish progressive rock band