1918 Nov 11 – Krakow returns to Poland when the country regains the independence after 124 years of partitions
1939 Sep 1 – outbreak of WWII
1939 Sep 6 – German troops enter the city
1939 Nov 16 – Sonderaktion Krakau- inside of the building of Jagiellonian University almost 200 Krakow professors were arrested and send to Concentration Camps
1941 – Ghetto in Podgorze District created for Jews from Krakow’s area
1943 Mar 14 – the final liquidation of the Ghetto, Jews taken to Concentration Camp Płaszów
1945 Jan 11 – Russian and Polish troops enter Krakow
1951 – creation of Nowa Huta, the new town ( later changed into the district of Krakow) for the ‘New Order’ workers with huge steel mill that soon starts to pollute Krakow,
1978 – Krakow and Wieliczka Salt Mines enter new created World Heritage List by UNESCO
1978 Oct 16- Krakow Bishop Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope JPII
2004 – Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize poet dies in Krakow
2007 – 750th anniversary of Krakow location