Significant events in the history of Landskron/Lanškroun
Ca 1250 Lanšperk/Landsberg built, Landskron/Lanškroun founded and colonization begins
1415 Czech Church Reformer Jan Hus burned at the stake despite safe-conduct pass
1419 First defenestration of Prague – Hussite wars
1526 Habsburgs assume Bohemian throne
1618 Second defenestration of Prague – 30 Years War
1848 Revolutions in Europe – end of feudalism in Austrian Empire
1851 Emigration of poor Czech Protestants from Čermná to Texas
1852 Emigration of poor German Catholics to Waterloo, Wisconsin
1853 Kleckers and Meitners emigrate to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree chart 3)
1853 Stanglers emigrate to Chicago (Pedigree chart 2)
1854 Pitterles emigrate to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree charts 1, 2, 4 and 5)
1854 Ertls emigrate to America (Pedigree chart 2)
1855 Wenzel Schoeberle, Sr. emigrates to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree chart 4)
1859 Austro-Sardinian War
1864 Second Schleswig War – Austrian troops fight Danish troops
1864 Franz Scheberle to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree chart 1)
1866 Austro-Prussian War. Decisive battle fought at Sadowa (Königgrätz) about 50 miles from town of Landskron. Prussia occupies Bohemia, including Lanškroun/Landskron district, for 4 months. Prussians confiscate grain of Johann Langer.
1866 Brusenbachs (Pedigree ch. 3) and Roffeises (Pedigree ch. 5) emigrate to Watertown, WI
1867 Langers emigrate to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree charts 1, 2 and 3)
1868 Vincenz Kreuziger emigrates to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree charts 2 and 5)
1871 Tobacco factory opens in Lanškroun/ Landskron
1872 Wenzel Schoeberle, Jr. and Bernhardt Klecker emigrate to Watertown, Wisconsin (Pedigree charts 4 and 6)
1882 Frantisek Jansa and Ludmilla Jansa emigrate to America (Pedigree chart 6)
Ca 1890 End of large scale emigration to America
1914 World War I begins
1918 World War I ends and, independent Czechoslovakia created
1938 Munich conference cedes border areas of Czechoslovakia to Germany
1939 World War II begins
1945 World War II ends in Europe on May 8
1945 People’s Courts in Landskron/Lanškroun try and execute dozens; start of removal/expulsion of Germans
Aug. 2, 1945 Benes Decree strips Germans of citizenship and property.
Aug. 3, 1945 Potsdam Conference of the U.S., U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom authorizes the “humane” transfer of German population from Czechoslovakia and other eastern European lands
1948 Third defenestration of Prague – Communists take over Czechoslovakia and farm collectivization begins
1989 End of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia: farm property de-collectivized
1991 Velvet divorce of Czech Republic and Slovakia