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The Prague Spring inspired music and literature such as the work of Václav Havel, Karel Husa, Karel Kryl, and Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

On 1 July 1991, in Prague, the Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR.

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

President Václav Havel refuses to invite Klaus to form a coalition.

** Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.

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

** Václav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia.

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

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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.

These included the poets Jiří Gruša, Josef Hanzlík, Antonín Brousek, Jiří Kuběna, and playwrights Ivan Vyskočil, Jiří Šlitr, Václav Havel, Milan Uhde, Josef Topol.

Ludvík Vaculík, Jan Vladislav, and Václav Havel and Jan Lopatka organized the largest samizdat editions.

While there, she met future Czechoslovakian president Václav Havel, whom she let carry her guitar so as to prevent his arrest by government agents.

After the war, Forman attended the elite King George boarding school in the spa town Poděbrady, where his fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski.

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* Czech — Václav Patejdl: Grand Pierrot ( 1995 ; rock musical ).

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.

* Václav Kozák — a Czech rower

President Václav Havel — a fan of Zappa whom the musician had met — although not able to endorse the request in an official capacity, evidently approved, and Dr. Marsden claimed that he had never experienced such intense lobbying: the press reported thousands of letters of support were sent to him before the committee met.

* Zdeněk Pecka and Václav Vochoska — Rowing, men's double sculls

* Václav Chalupa — Rowing, Men ’ s Single Sculls

* Václav Matěj Kramerius, publisher, journalist and writer

Among his teachers belonged the leading Czech linguist and writer Josef Jungmann and the playwright Václav Kliment Klicpera.

Meanwhile, messages of support were flooding in from all over the world: France ( President François Mitterrand ) ; the Soviet ( President Mikhail Gorbachev ); Hungary ( the Hungarian Socialist Party ); the new East German government ( at that time the two German states were not yet formally reunited ); Bulgaria ( Petar Mladenov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bulgaria ); Czechoslovakia ( Ladislav Adamec, leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Václav Havel, the dissident writer, revolution leader and future president of the Republic ); China ( the Minister of Foreign Affairs ); the United States ( President George H. W. Bush ) ; West Germany ( Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher ); NATO ( Secretary General Manfred Wörner ); the United Kingdom ( Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ); Spain ; Austria ; the Netherlands ; Italy ; Portugal ; Japan ( the Japanese Communist Party ); and the Moldavian SSR.

The Pyramid is a 1995 novel written by Ismail Kadare, considered one of the greatest works produced by this writer, rivaling The Garden Party, by Václav Havel.

* Václav Štech ( 1859 – 1947 ) writer, dramatist, co-founder of the Museum of Slaný

* Václav Matěj Kramerius-publisher, journalist and writer

Václav Cílek ( born 1955 in Brno ) is Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher, science popularizer and translator of Tao and Zen texts.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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