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- 100s BC: Present-day Slovakia is populated by Celtic tribes.
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Roman Empire
- 174: Part of the region is conquered by the Roman Empire.
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- 180: The Roman Empire abandons the region.
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Huns
- 440s: Most of the area is conquered by the Huns and their allies, the Alans, led by their king Attila.
- 454: The Huns are defeated at the battle of Nedao and withdraw from the region.
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Kingdom of the Herules
- 460s: The Herules establish a kingdom after the defeat of the Huns.
- 487: King Feletheus of Rugiland is defeated and executed by king Odoacer of Italy, who leaves Rugiland in 488 to the Herules.
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Kingdom of the Lombards
- 508: The Heruli king Rodulf loses his kingdom to the Germanic tribe of the Lombards. The area becomes the core of their kingdom, led by their king Wacho.
- 510s: Large parts of present-day Austria and Hungary are conquered by the Lombards.
- 568: King Alboinus, a.k.a. Alboin, leads the Lombards and allies in the migration and conquest of Italy.
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Avar Khaganate
- 568: The Avar Khaganate occupies the region.
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Samo's Empire
- 623: Most of the region is conquered by Samo, a Frankish merchant who unified several Slavic and is elected as king of Samo's Empire.
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Avar Khaganate
- 658: The region is recaptured by the Avars.
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Great Moravia
- 833: Moravia becomes the state of Great Moravia, a vassal from but outside the Frankish Empire that includes present-day Slovakia.
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Kingdom of the East Franks
- 843: After the partition of the Frankish Empire, the region becomes part of East Francia.
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Principality of Hungary
- 900s: Present-day Slovakia is conquered by Hungary. Hungarian armies invade in the upcoming decades parts of East Francia, intervening in wars with the German king and German dukes.
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Habsburg Monarchy
- 1526: Archduke Ferdinand of Austria becomes also king of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia. Ferdinand creates central institutions. The joint territories ruled by him are together also rendered as Habsburg Monarchy.
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- 1551: Hungary is re-united under Habsburg rule.
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Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
- 1556: Szapolyai János Zsigmond is restored as king
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- 1570: Hungary is re-united under Habsburg rule.
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Principality of Upper Hungary
- 1682: Part of present-day Slovakia becomes part of Upper Hungary, an Ottoman vassal state.
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- 1685: Upper Hungary is abandoned by the Ottoman Empire and reincorporated into Hungary.
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Empire of Austria
- 1804: Archduke Franz II becomes emperor of Austria, being at the same time emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806). Hungary with Slovakia is integrated into the Empire of Austria.
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Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy
- 1867: Emperor Franz Joseph makes Austria a constitutional dual monarchy as the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy.
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Czechoslovak Republic
- 1918: Austria-Hungary and the other Central Powers lose World War I. Austria-Hungary collapses. Democratic Czechoslovakia is established, including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia and the former Hungarian regions of Slovakia.
- 1919: The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye between France, the United Kingdom and Italy and other allied powers with Germany-Austria ends the war with the formal dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Communist Hungary invades Czechoslovakia and establishes the Slovak Soviet Republic as a unrecognized puppet state. Poland and Czechoslovakia dispute Cieszyn Silesi . This dispute leads to a division of the region. Hungary reaches an armistice with Czechoslovakia and retreats, the Slovak Soviet Republic is reincorporated into Czechoslovakia the same year.
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Slovak Republic
- 1939: Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia and creates the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Slovakia becomes a German client state, led by Jozef Tiso. The parliament of Subcarpathian Ruthenia declares independence as Carpatho-Ukraine. Within a day Carpatho-Ukraine is annexed to Hungary.
- 1940: Slovakia joins the Tripartite Pact signed by Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan.
- 1944: The Slovak resistance organizes an insurrection against the Slovak government and Nazi Germany. The insurrection is defeated by Nazi Germany.
- 1945: Nazi Germany is defeated, Slovakia is conquered by the Soviet Union.
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Czechoslovak Republic
- 1945: Czechoslovakia is restored as the Czechoslovak Republic without former Carpatho-Ukraine.
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Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- 1960: Czechoslovakia is renamed.
- 1968: The Soviet Union and other member states of the Warsaw Pact invade Czechoslovakia and overthrow the government of the Slovak Alexander Dubček.
- 1969: Czechoslovakia becomes a federal republic. Inside Czechoslovakia the Slovak Socialist Republic is established.
- 1989: The bloodless Velvet Revolution leads to the collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and the restoration of democracy.
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Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
- 1990: The communist dictatorships collapses. Both Czechoslovakia and the Slovak Socialist Republic are renamed, the last as Slovak Republic.
- 1991: The Warsaw Pact and the Comecon are disbanded. Czechoslovakia joins the Council of Europe.
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