1918 - Habsburg Empire collapses after defeat in World War One. Slovak and Czech lands unite to form Czechoslovakia, which emerges as the most democratic and prosperous of the Habsburg successor ...

Benes resigns. 1939 - Nazi invasion of Czech Lands which become a German protectorate. Slovakia is proclaimed an independent state under profascist leader Jozef Tiso. 1940 - Benes establishes ...

November 3, 1990 - The KDH elects Ján Čarnogurský as its chairman. April 23, 1991 - After a split in the VPN, the leadership of the Slovak parliament recalls Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar and ...

1993 January - Independence after Czechoslovakia splits. Parliament elects Michal Kovac of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (MDS) president. Vladimir Meciar, also of the MDS, is prime ...

1918 - Habsburg Empire collapses after defeat in World War One. Slovak and Czech lands unite to form Czechoslovakia, which emerges as the most democratic and prosperous of the Habsburg successor ...