A more formal history of Galicia and the Jews: An overview of the territory given the name "Galicia"

Excerpts from The Taylor Shop by Eleanore Jeanne Andelman (z"l)

Pre history	Spread of Lusation culture
Prior 500 A D	Development of the Wiskabue Tribe/Lugian Union
500 - 700	Domination by Croats
700 - 880	Expansion of the Wislanian Territorial State
880 - 910	Overlordship by Moravia
966	Poland founded and converted to Christianity by Mieszko I
990	The Wislanie annexed to the new Polish State
1000 - 1241	Regionalism, as the Kingdom of Little Poland, and Palatinate Sandomir, the Polish capital, moved to Krakow.
1241 - 1288	Three Mongolian invasions by the armies of the Ghengis Khan and his successors
1288 - 1330	Galicia as the Polish frontier and main area for eastward expansion
1330 - 1370	The reign of King Casimir the Great. The annexation of Halychyna and Volhynia. Border rivalry with Lithuania.
1330 - 1570	Jagiellonian Poland. Establishment of Galician towns and the spread of Magdeburgian town law.
1502 - 1510	Invasion by the Turks from the East
1500 - 1700	The imposition of serfdom
1600 - 1650	Tartar incursions
1650 - 1660	The Swedish Deluge
1700 - 1702	The Northern War
1700 - 1772	The dissolution of the State
1768 - 1772	Confederation of Bar: From 1768 - 1772, an anti-Russian rising known as the "Confederation of Bar" was crushed by the Russians. Over 5000 captured "szlachta" were sent to Siberia. Among the few who escaped was Kazimierz Pulaski who was to play an important role in the United States' struggle for independence.
1772	Occupation by the Austro-Hunfarian Empire, the First Partition
1330 - 1570	Jagiellonian Poland. Establishment of Galician towns and the spread of Magdeburgian town law.
1786	The land Katester
1793 - 1795	The Kosciuszko War for Independence
1805 - 1812	Impact of Na[poleonic hegemony
1831	Asiatic Cholera epidemic
1846	The Galician Peasant Uprising
1847	Typhus and Cholera outbreaks
1848 - 1849	The emancipation of the Galician peasants (Hungarian revolt)
1853 - 1855	The great famine. The "Great Cholera", 1854, "Little Cholera", 1873
1850 - 1900	The struggle for democracy and overpopulation effects
1880 - 1914	The breaking up of the estates
1905	Year of Strikes
1914 -1921	World War I. The passing of the Eastern Front through Galicia several times. The collapse of Austria. The Polish - Russian War

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