Significant dates

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Ancient History

• July 6th 1253: Lithuania established

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• July 1st 1569: Union of Lublin; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth formed
• 1610-1612: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth hold Moscow
• September 22nd 1772: First Partition; Poland begins to be taken away
• May 1791: Second Partition: Commonwealth under attack from all sides
• October 24th 1795: Third Partition: Commonwealth dissolved; Poland and Lithuania subjugated. Lithuanian independence lost.

 123 years of Russian occupation

20th Century

• 16th February 1918: Lithuania declares independence from Russia

 Polish-Lithuanian War

• Spring 1919: Poland's aggressive overtures; captures Vilnius
• October 1920: Poland annexes Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, and allows Lithuania no access to it; Kaunas named temporary capital
• November 19th 1920: Polish-Lithuanian war officially ends; Poland still holds Vilnius.
• 1923: Lithuania falls into German hands
• September 1939: Having invaded Eastern Poland, Russia returns Vilnius to Lithuania in accordance with Soviet-Baltic mutual assistance pact

WW2-Russian and German rule

• July 12th 1940: Taking advantage of the mutual assistance pact as a cover, Russia annexes Lithuania along with Latvia and Estonia
• June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany liberates Lithuania from the USSR; brief moment of hope before the Nazis prove just as bad
• June-December 1941: The brunt of the Holocaust. Between 1941-44, the Holocaust kills ~196,000 Lithuanian Jews, meaning a loss of life of around 91% of the pre-war Jewish community and the largest loss of life in Lithuanian history
• October 9th 1944: Western Allies hand Lithuania back to Russia to secure Soviet cooperation.

• December 29th 1944: Taken to the shifting weird that is roleplaysoddly