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c. 1500 BCE

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963

Go to Gniezno (Poland) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.)

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965

Go to Mieszko I (c.935–992) in Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (1 ed.)

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1241

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1308

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1320

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1333

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1386

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1410

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1458

Go to Matthias I (1443–90) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1466

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1493

Go to John Albert (1459–1501) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 ed.)

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1543

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1575

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1648

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1683

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1700

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c. 1740

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1741

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1772

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1793

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1795

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1807

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1815

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1839

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1905

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1914

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1915

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1919

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Go to Polish Corridor in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1926

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1928

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1933

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1938

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1939

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1940

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1941

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1942

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1943

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1944

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1945

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1947

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Go to Levi, Primo (1919–1987) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1950

Go to Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904–) in The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (1 ed.)

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1957

Go to Panufnik, Sir Andrzej (24 Sept. 1914) in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.)

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1958

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1961

Go to Lutosławski, Witold (1913) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.)

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1970

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Go to Lutosławski, Witold (1913) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.)

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1976

Go to Górecki, Henryk (1933) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.)

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1979

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1980

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Go to Wałesa, Lech (1943– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1981

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1982

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1983

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1986

Go to Penderecki, Krzysztof (1933) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.)

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1989

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1990

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