Czech history timeline

There are several dates which should be remembered because of importance to our ancestors lives. This post was inspired by Czech genealogy website of Lukáš Pěnkava - I have ommited some of the dates and added others as I see some more important. This timeline can be very useful for writing family history. It covers years 1526 to 1918.

Year	Event
1526	Czech lands became part of Hapsburg monarchy, Ferdinand I elected as Czech king
1531	Oldest parish book in Pilsen State Regional Archives
1545	Council of Trent - estabilished duty to keep parish books
1558	Oldest parish book in Litoměřice State Regional Archives
1564	Maxmilian II elected as Czech king
1571	Oldest parish book in Land Archives in Opava
1573	Oldest parish book in Prague State Regional Archives
1576	Rudolph II elected as Czech king
1579	Oldest parish book in Moravian Land Archives in Brno
1584	Oldest parish book in Prague Municipal Archives
1587	Oldest parish book in Třeboň and Zámrsk State Regional Archives
1611	Matthew II elected as Czech king
1618	Beginning of Thirty Years' War
1619	Ferdinand II and Frederick Palatine were elected as Czech kings
1620	Battle of White Mountain
1637	Ferdinand III elected as Czech king
1648	End of Thirty Years' War
1651	List of Serfs according to Faith created
1654	First registry of Roll of Assessment in Bohemia began (ended 1656) Catholic religion as the only religion in Czech lands
1656	First Hide Registry assessment in Moravia began (ended 1657)
1657	Leopold I elected as Czech king
1669	Second Hide Registry assessment in Moravia began (ended 1679)
1684	Second Roll of Assessment in Bohemia
1703	First census in Czech history
1705	Joseph I elected as Czech king
1711	Charles VI elected as Czech king
1713	Last "Black Death" epidemy in monarchy
1740	Maria Theresia became Czech queen; beginning of War of Austrian Succession
1748	End of War of Austrian Succession
1764	First military survey of Hapsburg monarchy (ended 1768)
1768	Duty to keep military parish books
1770	Houses in the monarchy numbered with the descriptive numbers Instruction about stable surnames issued
1780	Joseph II elected as Czech king
1782	Edict of Tolerance
1784	Parish books as public document; transformation of parish books
1790	Leopold II elected as Czech king
1792	Francis II elected as Czech king
1799	Duty to keep duplicates of parish books (Bohemia)
1804	Francis II declared to be Austrian Emperor under the name Francis I
1817	Issued an edict which gave base to the Stabile Cadaster survey
1829	Protestant churches allowed to keep parish books by law (they kept them before, but had no duty to do so)
1835	Ferdinand V crowned as Czech king
1836	Second military survey of Hapsburg monarchy (ended 1852)
1848	Franz Joseph I became Czech king
1849	Administrative reform of Austrian part of Hapsburg monarchy Protestant parish books are also public document; protestants not anymore written in catholic books
1867	Hapsburg monarchy divided to Austrian and Hungarian part
1914	Beginning of WWI
1916	Charles I became Czech king
1918	End of WWI Creation of Czechoslovakia