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| 1764 |
| | | The Russian empress Catherine the Great secures the throne of Poland for one of her lovers, as Stanislaw II | |
|  | Portrait of Stanislaw II, c.1780
Dulwich Picture Gallery
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| 1772 |
| | | Russia, Prussia and Austria agree a treaty enabling them to divide the spoils in the first partition of Poland | |
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| 1772 |
| | | The first partition of Poland begins the process of Lithuania being progressively absorbed into Russia | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Russia and Prussia agree on a second partition of Poland | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Poland's neighbours – Russia, Prussia and Austria – are all on hand for the final partition of the kingdom | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Part of Poland is recovered from Prussia to become the grand duchy of Warsaw, a small state dependent upon Napoleon | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Poland becomes a kingdom of very limited independence, since the Russian tsar Alexander I is to be its king | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Polish composer Frédéric Chopin completes his Preludes under difficult conditions in Majorca | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marie Curie and her husband Pierre isolate a new element which they name polonium in honour of her native Poland | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland | |
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