THE HISTORY OF SLOVAKIA

THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL MILESTONES IN SLOVAK HISTORY:
833 - The Great Moravian Empire was founded
863 - Byzantine brothers Constantine and Methodius headed a mission to Great Moravia, devised the oldest Slavic alphabet and translated the liturgical books into
Church Slavonic which they codified
907 - The Great Moravian Empire desintegrated and Slovakia became a part of the early feudal Hungarian state
19th century - The time of national revival

1843 - Ľ. Štúr codified the literary Slovak language
1861 - The Memorandum of the Slovak nation was published
October 28, 1918 - The Czechoslovak Republik was founded
March 14, 1939 - The Declaration of the Slovak Republic – a puppet state of Nazi Germany
August 29, 1944 - The Slovak National Uprising against the Nazi Germany started
1968 - Prague Spring – led by Alexander Dubček
August 21, 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia
November 17, 1989 - The Velvet Revolution, restoration of democracy
January 1, 1993 - The independence of the Slovak Republic was declarated