* 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.

On May 12, 1926, Piłsudski, prompted by mutinous units seeking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister Wincenty Witos of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President Stanisław Wojciechowski and overpowering the troops loyal to him.

France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, saw the Polish struggle as a chance to strike at Austrian power in the west without seeming to be the aggressor.

In 1985, Jaruzelski resigned as prime minister and defence minister and became chairman of the Polish Council of State, a post equivalent to that of president or a dictator, with his power centered on and firmly entrenched in his coterie of " LWP " generals and lower ranks officers of the Polish Communist Army.

After the Soviet invasion of German-occupied Poland in July 1944, Polish government-in-exile prime minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk flew to Moscow with Churchill to argue against the annexation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact portion of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union.

When the War of the Polish Succession broke out in 1733, France used it as an opportunity to seize Lorraine, since France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, was concerned that, as a Habsburg possession, it would bring Austrian power too close to France.

* Władysław Anders, Polish general and prime minister.

* Szamorodni: This type of wine was initially known as főbor ( prime wine ), but from the 1820s Polish merchants popularised the name samorodny, ( The word stems from Slovak, Prekmurian Slovene, and Kajkavian Croatian languages, which used to be spoken before the hungarization of the Pannonian Basin.

" In 1941 he accompanied the prime minister to Latin America to find a home for some 4, 000 Polish refugees ; the refugees were taken in by Mexico, and Szeryng, in gratitude, settled there himself, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1946.

After the Soviet re-invasion of Poland in July 1944, the Polish government-in-exile prime minister flew to Moscow with Churchill to attempt to oppose annexations of its Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact portion of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union.

PO proceeded to form a majority governing coalition with the agrarian Polish People's Party ( PSL ), with PO leader, Donald Tusk, taking over the prime ministerial office in November, 2007.

In 1942 Karski was selected by Cyryl Ratajski, the Polish Government's Delegate at Home, to perform a secret mission to prime minister Władysław Sikorski in London.

In September 2007 the former Polish prime minister Leszek Miller become affiliated with Samoobrona, when he decided to run for the Sejm from their lists.

The Commission was one of Prussia's prime instruments in the official policy of Germanization of the historically Polish lands of West Prussia ( the former Royal Prussia ) and the dissolved Grand Duchy of Posen.

" Losing its image of quirkiness, the Polish Economic Program became associated with the Democratic Union ( Poland ) ( UD ) and the Liberal Democratic Congress ( KLD ) in the Little Coalition of liberal promarket parties and supported the candidacy of Hanna Suchocka as prime minister.

* July 4 – The prime minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, Władysław Sikorski, and his chief of staff, Tadeusz Klimecki, and eight others die in the crash of a Liberator II just after takeoff from Gibraltar.

Polish prime minister urges parliament to affirm Poles ' rights to property left by expelled Germans in the International Herald Tribune, 19 December 2006

In his " suicide letter ," addressed to Polish president Władysław Raczkiewicz and prime minister Władysław Sikorski, Zygielbojm stated that while the Nazis were responsible for the murder of the Polish Jews, the Allies also were culpable:

He wished his letter to be known not only by the Polish President and prime minister in exile.

In the interbellum the Order was awarded to 24 Polish citizens and 87 foreigners, among whom were 33 monarchs and heads of state, ten prime ministers and fifteen other ministers of state, and twelve members of royal families.

* 1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister ( d. 2008 )

Polish Prime minister Józef Cyrankiewicz was rewarded by Stalin for the Polish rejection of the Plan.

Polish officials refused to allow Soviet troops on to Polish territory if Germany attacked ; as Polish foreign minister Józef Beck pointed out, they feared that once the Red Army entered their territories, it might never leave.

Polish Prime minister Josef Cyrankiewicz was rewarded for the Polish rejection of the Plan with a huge 5 year trade agreement, including 450 million in credit, 200, 000 tons of grain, heavy machinery and factories.

He had no grievance against Russia and while he privately sympathized with the Polish cause, in his role as foreign minister he rejected Polish demands.

On April 30, 1946, the Lusatian National Committee also postulated a petition to the Polish Government, signed by Paweł Cyż – the minister and an official Sorbian delegate in Poland.

* Stanisław Jasiukowicz, Polish minister, tortured to death in Butyrki in 1946.

Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas, a child of German-speaking parents ; his mother, Marie ( née Mira ), was an Austrian immigrant, and his father, Joseph Jaworski, was a Polish immigrant who was an Evangelical minister.

Throughout the late 1720s Eugene's influence and skilful diplomacy managed to secure the Emperor powerful allies in his dynastic struggles with the Bourbon powers ; but physically and mentally fragile in his later years Eugene enjoyed less success as commander-in-chief of the army during his final conflict, the War of the Polish Succession.

* 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.

* April 8 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising ( d. 1960 )

On 5 February 1668, by now a famed and esteemed commander, he achieved the rank of Grand Hetman of the Crown, the highest military rank in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, and thereby the de facto commander-in-chief of the entire Polish Army.

Immediately after the peace with the Ottoman Empire was signed, Suvorov was again transferred to Poland, where he assumed the command of one of the corps and took part in the Battle of Maciejowice, in which he captured the Polish commander-in-chief Tadeusz Kościuszko.

An attempt on the part of the British troops to take steps against the Polish forces was prevented by General Jules Gratier, the French commander-in-chief of the Allied troops.

For valor he was decorated by Polish commander-in-chief Józef Piłsudski with the highest Polish military decoration, the Virtuti Militari.

In the first week of the campaign, those plans, however, were rejected by the Polish commander-in-chief, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły.

Their plan was never adopted, but on 20 September 1940 the Polish commander-in-chief, General Władysław Sikorski, ordered the creation of Section III of the Commander-in-Chief's Staff ( Oddział III Sztabu Naczelnego Wodza ).

At one time during his Warsaw stay he was a second in a duel between Polish members of the Mysliwski Club, the other second being Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, later commander-in-chief of Finnish armies in World War II and President of Finland.

De Wiart met with the Polish commander-in-chief, Marshal of Poland Edward Rydz-Śmigły in late August 1939 and formed a rather low opinion of his capabilities.

One of Poland's greatest military commanders, he was commander-in-chief of the Polish army at the Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ).

Meanwhile, Polish military intelligence was aware of Russian preparations for a counteroffensive, and Polish commander-in-chief Józef Piłsudski ordered the commander of Polish forces on the Ukrainian Front, General Antoni Listowski, to prepare for a strategic withdrawal.

He also had a right to dismiss the parliament before the end of term, to name one third of the Senators, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the General Inspector of the Armed Forces .< references > Seidner, Stanley S. Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz Rydz and the Defense of Poland, New York, 1978 .</ references >

Shortly before the capitulation of the Polish capital, he was ordered by Home Army's commander-in-chief Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski to leave the city and find his way to London.

In December 1939 Polish commander-in-chief Gen. Władysław Sikorski decided that a Polish unit in the French territory of Levant be created.

In occupied Poland, on 27 September 1939 he founded the resistance movement " Służba Zwycięstwu Polski " ( Polish Victory Service ) and was its commander-in-chief until December 1939, when he became the commanding officer of the " 3rd Lwów area ( ZWZ )" under Soviet occupation.

Kazimierz Porębski ) ( November 15, 1872-January 21, 1933 ) was a career naval officer who rose to the position of admiral within the Imperial Russian Navy, and was subsequently the first commander-in-chief of the inter-war Polish Navy.

He is also former commander-in-chief of the Polish Land Forces.