Eternal Liiva. 999 footsteps. Footstep 14

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Water Snake

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Difficult chronology. With excerpts. Accidental ones. Or maybe not. 

The numbers, the numbers. 

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558 AD: defeated by the Avars the Slavs move east from the Russian steppes 

999: the Western world is paralyzed by fear of the millennium 

1226: Konrad Mazowiecki asks the Teutonic Knights, a Crusading Order based in Germany, to help subdue the pagan north-eastern tribes of Prussia 

1236: Mindaugas (Mindowe) unites the tribes of Lithuania with capital in Trakai 

1237: the land of the Teutonic Knights is called Livonia (Latvia and Estonia) 

1241: the Mongols invade Poland and defeat a joint army of Henry of Slesia and the Teutonic Knights at the battle of Liegnitz/Wahlstatt 

1250: the first Jewish settlers emigrate to Poland 

1253: Mindaugas converts to Christianity and becomes king of Lithuania 

1290: the Teutonic Knights conquer all of Prussia 

1295: Vytenis unifies Lithuania 

1316: Vytenis' brother, the pagan archduke Gediminas, expands Lithuania to Kiev and Chernigov and the Black Sea, founds the Gediminaičiai dynasty, moves the capital to Vilnius 

1341: Gediminas dies and is succeeded by his son Algirdas who continues Lithuania's expansion to the Baltic Sea 

1386: The marriage between the Polish queen Jadwiga, daughter of Louis I, and Lithuanian archduke Jogaila, who converts to Catholicism, changes name to Wladyslaw II and de-facto unites Catholic Poland and pagan Lithuania into one Catholic kingdom (the Lithuanians are the last European people to convert to Christianity) 

1392: the archduke Vytautas (Witold) of Lithuania conquers Belorussian, Russiam and Ukrainiam territories, pushing the borders of Lithuania to the Black Sea 

1399: Vytautas of Lithuania is defeated by the Mongols and has to end his Russian campaigns 

1410: The Teutonic Knights are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian army at the battle of Tannenberg/Gruenwald 

1543: Nicholas Copernicus publishes "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" and defends the heliocentric theory 

1561: the Teutonic state of Livonia collapses, and its territory is divided between Poland, Sweden and Russia 

1576: Transylvanian voivod (prince) Stefan Batory is elected king of Poland-Lithuania 

1579: the Jesuits establish the university of Vilnius 

1582: Batory conquers Livonia (Estonia and Latvia) from Russia 

1586: Batory dies and the Swedish crown prince, Zygmunt Vasa, is elected king of Poland-Lithuania 

1648: 200,000 Jews are slaughtered during the Ukrainian Cossak rebellion in Poland-Lithuania 

1667: Ukraine is divided along the Dnieper between Poland-Lithuania and Moscow (treaty of Andruszowo) 

1672: the Ottomans invade southern Ukraine 

1683: Vienna, under siege by the Ottomans, is saved by the Polish-Lithuanian army 

1890: millions of Poles emigrate to the United States 

1918: Lithuania declares its independence from Russia 

1926: Pilsudski proclaims himself dictator of Poland 

1939: Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich partition Poland 

1940: The Soviet Union invades Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 

1943: six million Poles (including three million Jews) are killed in Nazist death camps at Maidanek, Birkenau, and Auschwitz 

1974: The Polish geneticist Waclaw Szybalski coins the term "synthetic biology" 

1978: the Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II, first non-Italian Pope in centuries 

1990: Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union 

2010: Polish president Lech Kaczynski dies in a plane accident 

2015: Eternal Liiva is creating GOLEM.