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| 1915 |
| | | Franz Kafka publishes Metamorphosis, the tale of a travelling salesman who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties | |
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| 1918 November 14 |
| | | The new nation of Czechoslovakia is established from within Austria-Hungary, with Tomas Masaryk as its first president | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The peace-makers in Paris assign the Sudetenland, with its 3.5 million German-speaking inhabitants, to the new republic of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Czech novelist Jaroslav Hasek dies with his masterpiece, The Good Soldier Schweik, incomplete | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Max Brod disregards Franz Kafka's dying instruction to destroy all his manuscripts | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno | |
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