• approx. 100 000 BC
Neanderthal man lived next to hot springs in today's region of Spiš, northern Slovakia. The cast of brain cavity of female individual was found in the travertine hill in Gánovce.
• approx. 5 000 BC
The first farmers arrived at the territory of Slovakia and built their settlements.
• 16th century BC
Expansion followed by a rapid decline of the oldest stone town was discovered at Myšia hôrka near Spišský Štvrtok.
• 5th -1st century BC
Celts lived in the territory of Slovakia. They built oppidums (towns), smelted iron, struck coins, and represented the first advanced civilisation of its kind in Slovakia.
• 179 AD
The Roman legionaries carved the inscription celebrating victory over the German tribe of Marcomans in the castle rock in Trenčín.
• 5th century AD The first Slavs crossed the mountain passes of the Carpathians and appeared in the territory of today's Slovakia.
• 623-658 AD
The Frankish merchant Samo assumed leadership of the Slav tribe union. Founded and headed Samo's Dominion - the first state of the Western Slavs.
• 833 AD
The Moravian Prince Mojmír III drove out Prince Pribina of Nitra and founded the Great Moravian Empire by annexation of the Moravian Principality.
• 863 AD
Sts. Constantine and Methodius from the Greek town of Thesaloniki arrived at the Great Moravian Empire with the mission to Christianise the local people. The Great Moravian Prince Rastislav invited them.
• 907 AD
Old Hungarians defeated the Bavarian army below the Brezaulaspurc (now Bratislava) Castle on the banks of the Dunaj (Danube) river.
• 1000 AD
Hungarian state ruled by King Stephen I was founded. The territory of what is today Slovakia was included.
• 1111 AD
Inventory of the Zobor Abbey was compiled in Nitra. The Documents of Zobor are the oldest documents existing in territory of Slovakia.
• 1241-1242 AD
The Tartar hordes attacked the Kingdom of Hungary. Many stone castles were built then and King Belo IV invited settlers from Germany to colonise the depopulated country.
• 1296-1321 AD
The powerful magnate Matúš Čák Trenčiansky also referred to as the Lord of the Van and Tatras assumed control over the great part of Slovakia.
• 1412-1769 AD
King Sigismund pawned 16 towns of Spis to the Polish ruler Vladislav II. The towns were recovered only during the reign of Empress Maria Theresia.
• 1467-1490 AD
The first university Istropolitana in the territory of Slovakia existed in Pressburg (today Bratislava).
• 1526 AD
The army of the Kingdom of Hungary suffered an absolute defeat in battle at Mohács on 29 August. In fight against the Turks also King Louis II was killed.
• 1536 AD
The Parliament of the Kingdom of Hungary promoted Pressburg (now Bratislava) to Capital of the Kingdom.
• 1683 AD
Imperial troops assisted by the army of the Polish King Jan Sobieski defeated the Turks at the battle of Vienna. The memorable battle definitely stopped the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1740-1780 AD
The rule of the enlightened Empress Maria Theresia. Her son Joseph II continued in reforms, which meant revolutionary changes for the Kingdom.
• 1787 AD
Anton Bernolák codified the first literary form of the Slovak. However, it did not catch on.
• 1843 AD
The second codification of the Slovak literary language authored by Ľudovít Štúr was more successful than that of Bernolák. It was generally accepted and it is still used at the present time.
• 1848-1849 AD
The Slovak Voluntary Corps organised the first armed uprising of Slovaks. Three campaigns of the Corps fighting side by side with the Imperial troops though, did not succeed in bringing freedom to the Slovak nation.
• 1860-1863 AD
The National Assembly of Slovaks in Martin adopted the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation in Martin in 1861. Two years later Matica Slovenská, the first national institution involved in promotion of education and culture of Slovaks was founded in Martin.
• 1867 AD
Austrian-Hungarian Compromise meant increased oppression of Slovaks by Hungarians.
• 1918 AD
Slovakia became part of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic declared on 28 October in Prague. The Slovak National Council confirmed the act on 30 October in Martin. Bratislava joined the state only on 1 January 1919.
• 1939 AD
The independent Slovak State was declared on 14 March 1939 in Bratislava. Priest Jozef Tiso became the President of this new state practically established by the Nazi Germany.
• 1944 AD
Slovak National Uprising broke in central Slovakia. It was announced on 29 August in Banská Bystrica. After the first successful operations of the rebels, the German army occupied the centers of uprising and the Slovak soldiers and partisans had to retreat to the mountains.
• 1944-1945 AD
The Red Army entered Slovakia through the Dukla mountain pass on 6 October 1944 and started to liberate Slovakia from the Nazi occupation. Bratislava was liberated on 4 April 1945.
• 1947-1948 AD
In contrast to Czechia, the communist party did not win the 1947 elections in Slovakia. Nevertheless, after the communist coup in February 1948 Slovakia also fell under the control of communists and the Soviet Union.
• 1968 AD
Slovak politicians led by Alexander Dubček actively participated in the process of the Prague Spring. The expectations of democratic change though, were truncated by the troops of the Warsaw Pact, which entered and occupied the country in August 1968.
• 1989 AD
The Velvet Revolution brought about the essential political change, deprived the communists of power and opened the way to democracy and plurality. Massive demonstrations supporting the change took place all over Slovakia.
• 1993 AD
Slovakia became the independent and sovereign state on 1 January and entered the UNO on 19 January. The Slovak National Council elected Michal Kováč the first president of the new democratic state.
• 2004 AD
Slovakia is the member of the European Union.
