Painting of Jan Hus in Council of Constance by Václav Brožík

* Václav Brožík ( 1851 – 1901 ), Czech painter

* Václav Brožík ( 1893 ), " Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella "

* Václav Brožík, painter

Václav Brožík

Jan Hus at the council of Constance painted by Václav Brožík.

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* October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, writer and politician ( d. 2011 )

Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.

* Sacra Et Litaniae à 5, 6, 7 & 8 Vocum Cum Instrumentis – Václav Smetáček, Josef Veselka, Symphonisches Orchester Des Rundfunks von Bratislava, Moravan, Schwann, 1966

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

* March 28 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor ( b. 1607 )

* March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian ( d. 1765 )

He was born as Václav Divíšek on 26 March 1698 in Helvíkovice, Bohemia ( now Ústí nad Orlicí District, Czech Republic ).

Václav Prokop Diviš ( 26 March 1698 – 25 December 1765 ) was a Czech priest, theologian and natural scientist, pioneer of electronic music and the constructor of the first electric musical instrument Denis d ' or.

Jan Václav Antonín Stamic ( later, during his life in Mannheim, Germanized as Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz ; June 18, 1717, Deutschbrod, Bohemia – March 27, 1757, Mannheim, Electorate of the Palatinate ) was a Czech composer and violinist.

On the 9th of March 1990, Zátopek was rehabilitated by Václav Havel.

Václav Hollar (), known in England as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas and in Germany as Wenzel Hollar ( 13 July 1607 – 25 March 1677 ), was a Bohemian etcher, who lived in England for much of his life.

Václav Nelhýbel ( September 24, 1919 – March 22, 1996 ) was a Czech-American composer, mainly of works for student performers.

* March 15: The Czech Republic's parliament passes a registered partnership law with 101 votes ( out of 177 ) overriding President Václav Klaus, who previously vetoed the law on February 16 after it was approved by the lower and upper house on 2005.

Václav Matěj Kramerius ( sometimes written Kramérius, February 9, 1753 in Klatovy, Bohemia – March 22, 1808 in Prague ) was a Czech publisher, journalist and writer, one of the most important early figures of the Czech National Revival.

* 1911 – Václav Renč, Czech poet ( d. 1973 )

* 1694 – František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer ( d. 1744 )

Cartoon depicting Václav Bělský ( 1818 – 1878 ), Mayor of Prague from 1863 until 1867, in charge of the city during Prussian occupation in July 1866.

* January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

* November 28 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator ( d. 1973 )

* April 30 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator ( b. 1911 )

* July 13 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher ( d. 1677 )

* December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic ( b. 1936 )

Charles IV (,, ; 14 May 1316, Prague – 29 November 1378 ), born Wenceslaus ( Václav ), was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor.

* Václav Trojan ( 1907 – 1983 ), Czech composer

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Subsequent chief conductors included Rafael Kubelík ( 1942 – 1948 ), Karel Ančerl ( 1950 – 1968 ), Václav Neumann ( 1968 – 1989 ), Jiri Belohlavek ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerd Albrecht ( 1993 – 1996 ), Vladimir Ashkenazy ( 1996 – 2003 ), and Zdeněk Mácal ( 2003 – 2007 ).

* February 19 – Václav Wasserman, actor, screenwriter and director ( died 1967 )

* February 15 – František Václav Míča, conductor and composer ( born 1694 )

The Czech President Václav Klaus rejected the term " euroscepticism ", with its purported negative undertones, saying ( at a meeting in April 2012 ) that the expressions for a eurosceptic and his opponent should be " a Euro-realist " and someone who is " Euro-naïve " ( respectively ).

* April 17 – Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, organist and composer

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, who was a bookseller in Mladá Boleslav, in today's Czech Republic, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his German bicycle.

It was published by John Mason Neale in 1853, and may be a translation of a poem by Czech poet Václav Alois Svoboda.

Václav Havel — a writer, dramatist and philosopher — was recruited from the independent academic community and appointed president of the republic in December 1989.

Charles was born to King John of Bohemia and Elisabeth of Bohemia in Prague as Wenceslaus ( Václav ), the name of his maternal grandfather Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia.

On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with Václav Havel on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, he was greeted with uproarious applause from the throngs of protesters below, embraced as a symbol of democratic freedom.

King Václav IV ( Wenceslas in English, Wenzel in German ), upon hearing this news, was so stunned that he died shortly after, supposedly due to the shock.

The new national literature thus firstly mimicked popular German genres and would only later evolve into an independent creative effort ; this was especially true for drama, e. g. Václav Kliment Klicpera.

Three periods are apparent: the first reacted to the disappointment due to the lack of political and social progress during the 1870s ( e. g. Václav Šolc ); the second was the great return to poetry, especially epic poetry ( e. g. Josef Václav Sládek ); and the third focused on prose ( e. g. Alois Jirásek ).

Hrabal steered clear of political engagement ; he was not a signatory of Charter 77, a protest against the communist regime drawn up principally by Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, and Pavel Kohout.

A ' Yes ' vote was urged by a massive campaign by the main parties and by civil society and the social partners, including campaigning through canvassing and all forms of media by respected pro-European figures like then EP president Pat Cox, former Czech president Václav Havel, former President of Ireland Patrick Hillery and former Taoiseach ( prime minister ) Dr. Garret Fitzgerald.

Charles IV, originally named Václav, came to the French court in 1323, aged seven, where he was taken under the patronage of the French king.

The orchestra first became internationally known under the baton of Václav Talich, who was principal conductor from 1919 to 1931, and again from 1933 to 1941.

The Czech Philharmonic was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2005, and also two Wiener Flötenuhr awards, with Pavel Štěpán, Zdeněk Mácal and Václav Neumann ( 1971 and 1982 ).

He was thwarted, however, by the opposition of the Archbishop of Cologne, Siegfried II of Westerburg, and the King of Bohemia, Wenceslaus ( Václav / Wenzel ) II.

It was invented and constructed by the Czech theologian Václav Prokop Diviš ( 1698-1765 ) — his surname is pronounced " Deevish " and often spelled " Divisch " — at his parish in the Moravian town Přímětice near Znojmo in the south-east of what is now the Czech Republic.

It was written, animated and directed by a group of Czech cartoonists including Jiří Brdečka, Jaroslav Kándl, Eduard Hofman, Břetislav Pojar, Václav Bedřich, Stanislav Látal, Jaroslav Doubrava and Josef Kluge in German-occupied Prague in AFIT studios.

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".