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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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| 1914 August 25-28 |
| | A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg | |
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| 1915 January |
| | Germans make an experimental but ineffective use of chlorine gas against the Russians in Poland | |
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| 1915 December |
| | German armies make sufficient advances to drive the Russians out of Poland | |
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| 1919 |
| | Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland | |
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| 1919 |
| | The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | The Versailles Treaty makes Danzig (or Gdansk) a free city (from 10 January 1920), under the protection of the League of Nations | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | The Versailles Treaty provides a corridor of land to give Poland access to Danzig and the Baltic, thereby dividing two parts of Germany | |
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| 1926 |
| | Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw | |
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| 1928 |
| | Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame | |
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