approx. 5 000 BC
The first farmers arrived at the territory of Slovakia and built their settlements.

5th century
The first Slavs crossed the mountain passes of the Carpathians and appeared in the territory of today`s Slovakia.

623-658
The Frankish merchant Samo assumed leadership of the Slave tribe union. He founded and headed Samo`s Dominion – the first state of the Western Slavs.

833 
The Moravian Prince Mojmír I expelled Prince Pribina of Nitra and founded the Great Moravian Empire by joining the Moravian Principality and the Nitra Principality.

1000 
Hungarian state ruled by King Stephen I was founded. The territory of what is today Slovakia was included.

1238 
Trnava and Krupina acquired the privileges of a free royal borough as the first towns in Slovakia.

1428-1443 
The Hussites invaded the Kingdom of Hungary.

1467-1490 
The first university in the territory of Slovakia Academia Istropolitana existed in Pressburg (today Bratislava).

1536 
The Parliament of the Kingdom of Hungary promoted Pressburg (now Bratislava) to Capital of the Kingdom.

1604-1711
The Kingdom of Hungary was swept by a series of six anti-Habsburg rebellions of the Hungarian nobility.

1787 
Anton Bernolák codified the first literary form of the Slovak language. However, it did not catch on.

1843 
The second codification of the Slovak literary language authored by Ľudovít Štúr was more successful and it became the basis of the current Slovak literary language.

1863 
Matica slovenská, the first national institution involved in promotion of education and culture of Slovaks was founded in Martin.

1918
Slovakia became part of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic declared on 28 October in Prague. Bratislava became the Capital of Slovakia.

1939 
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
Slovak National Uprising broke out in central Slovakia (29. 8.).

1944-1945 
The Red Army entered Slovakia through the Dukla pass on 6 October 1944 and started to liberate Slovakia from the Nazi occupation.

1948 
After the communist coup in February 1948 Slovakia also fell under the control of  the communists and the Soviet Union.

1989 
In November the Velvet Revolution brought about essential political changes, deprived the communists of power and opened the way to democracy and pluralism.

1993
Slovakia became the independent and sovereign state on 1 January and entered the UNO on 19 January.

2004
On 1 May Slovakia became a member of the European Union. 

2007
In December, Slovakia became a part of the Schengen Area – the system of free movement of persons within 25 European countries.

2009
On 1 January, the Slovak Republic adopted the single European currency Euro and thus became one of the countries of the European Monetary Union.

Source: Vydavateľstvo DAJAMA