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| 1878 |
| | | Czech composer Anton Dvorák writes his first set of Slavonic Dances, originally as piano duets | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The faction founded in Bohemia by Tomas Masaryk becomes known as the Progressive party | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno | |
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| 1912 |
| | | At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader | |
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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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