During Polish rule of the area in the late 10th century, the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg ( 975-1018 ) mentions salsa Cholbergiensis as the see of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg, set up during the Congress of Gniezno in 1000 and placed under the Archdiocese of Gniezno.

The city's name was first recorded, in Latin, in the form " Wrotizlava ", in the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, which mentions it as a seat of a newly installed bishopric in the context of the Congress of Gniezno.

The Congress of Gniezno ( with Bolesław I Chrobry ) is part of his pilgrimage.

* The Congress of Gniezno ( 1000 )

Duke Bolesław I of Poland was given a Holy Lance in 1000 following the Congress of Gniezno.

During the famous Congress of Gniezno he officially freed himself of tribute to the Holy Roman Empire and finally, at the peak of his reign, he had himself crowned as King, the first Polish ruler to do so.

The ensuing Congress of Gniezno, where Bolesław I entertained his distinguished guest, is one of the most famous episodes of medieval Polish history.

Probably already in 1000 during the Congress of Gniezno, was made an agreement between Bolesław I the Brave and Emperor Otto III.

It is here that the Congress of Gniezno took place in the year 1000 AD, during which Bolesław I the Brave, Duke of Poland, received Holy Roman Emperor Otto III.

In 1000 Otto III gave Boleslaw I of Poland a replica of the Lance at the Congress of Gniezno.

The Congress of Gniezno ( or Gnesener Übereinkunft, ) was an amical meeting between the Polish duke Bolesław I Chrobry and Emperor Otto III, which took place at Gniezno on March 11, 1000.

As a consequence, the excellent relations between the Empire and Poland marked by the Congress of Gniezno turned into a state of hostility that soon emerged into a German-Polish War which finally ended with the 1018 Peace of Bautzen.

The Pomeranian diocese of Kołobrzeg, founded as a consequence of the Congress of Gniezno, was overthrown by a pagan resurgence of the Pomeranians around 1007, and bishop Reinbern was forced to return to Boleslaw's court.

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The painting Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko supposedly illustrates the moment when Ulrich, dressed in white with a black cross, trying to attack Grand Duke Vytautas, is killed by two Polish infantrists, equipped with an executioner's axe and a replica of the Holy Lance reminiscent of the Congress of Gniezno.

In 1000, during the Congress of Gniezno, Poland was recognized as a state by the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope.

* 1000: Congress of Gniezno constitutes Reinbern's Bishopric of Kołobrzeg

Gniezno was created an archbishopric at the Congress of Gniezno in 1000, by agreement between Bolesław I and Holy Roman Emperor Otto III.

In AD 1000, during his pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Adalbert in Gniezno, the capital of Poland until about 1040, Emperor Otto III officially recognized Duke Bolesław I the Brave as King of Poland ( see Congress of Gniezno ), crowning him and presenting him with a replica of the Holy Lance, also known as Saint Maurice's Spear.

In the spring of 1852, he traveled in to Washington, DC in a failed attempt to prevail upon the Congress to rescind an order that he, in his capacity as quartermaster, reimburse the military $ 1000 in losses incurred on his watch, for which he bore no personal guilt.

In the United States, the term was first used by the Continental Congress in 1786, being described as the " lowest money of account, of which 1000 shall be equal to the federal dollar.

The Court supported its interpretation with an analysis of the history of the statute, which showed that Congress specifically removed language from the bill that explicitly would have awarded $ 1000 without proof of any damages.

Commissioned by the International Cello Congress 2005 in Kobe ( Japan ) for the 1000 Cellist Concert.

Prior to her election to Congress, she was president of a home-based business, Sales Resources Inc., which counted many Fortune 1000 companies as clients.

In 1916, Congress authorized the President to appoint and commission dental surgeons in the Navy at the rate of one dentist per 1000 enlisted personnel.

He printed 1000 copies of his proposal, titled Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform ( 1996 ), and sent copies to members of Congress, believing it would pass quickly on its merits.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Lincoln led the new Republican Party in developing their platform calling slavery a national evil, and insisting Congress end slavery expansion into the territories.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

In Congress, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia led the contingent that favored maintaining the absolute ban on gays.

The indigenous population has established itself as a significant force in Ecuadorian politics, as shown by the selection of indigenous representative Nina Pacari, who led the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, as second vice president of the 1969 Congress.

A particularly severe crisis in 1907 led Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.

Widespread public outcry in the USA, partly communicated to Congress by postage-paid postcards supplied in the packaging of sweetened soft drinks, led to the retention of saccharin despite its violation of the Delaney clause.

In 1791, Congress imposed an excise tax on distilled spirits, which led to protests in frontier districts, especially Pennsylvania.

Perceived indifference by the U. S. Congress regarding a change-of-status petition submitted by Guam has led many to feel that the territory is being deprived of the benefits of a more equitable union with the United States.

Despite considerable congressional resistance, presidential and popular pressure led to a November 1993 agreement brokered by the Catholic Church between the administration and Congress.

He was one of the British representatives at the Congress of Châtillon in February 1814, and at the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in May of that year.

Growing discontent with the political and social order imposed by the Congress of Vienna led to the outbreak, in 1848, of the March Revolution in the German states.

Madison led the unsuccessful attempt in Congress to block Hamilton's proposal, arguing that the new Constitution did not explicitly allow the federal government to form a bank.

When war finally did break out, the war effort was led by the War Hawks in Congress under Clay at least as much as it was by Madison ; this accorded with the president's preference for checks and balances.

An angry public elected a “ war hawk ” Congress, led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

Nehru led the faction of the Congress party which promoted Hindi as the ligua-franca of the Indian nation.

Nehru had led the Congress to a major victory in the 1957 elections, but his government was facing rising problems and criticism.

In the 1962 elections, Nehru led the Congress to victory yet with a diminished majority.

The Democrats held large majorities in each house, and Stephen Douglas, " a ferocious fighter, the fiercest, most ruthless, and most unscrupulous that Congress had perhaps ever known " led a tightly disciplined party.

* Umkhonto we Sizwe – Xhosa, for the " spear of the nation " was originally the military wing of the African National Congress ( a multiracial, center-left political party ) which fought against the white minority led Apartheid regime in South Africa.

Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.

Without Gandhi's unifying personality, the Indian National Congress began to splinter during his years in prison, splitting into two factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring party participation in the legislatures, and the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, opposing this move.

The plan encountered sharp opposition in Congress, mostly from the portion of the Republican Party led by Robert A. Taft that advocated a more isolationist policy and was weary of massive government spending.