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On May 15, 1936, president of Poland Ignacy Mościcki designed the government under prime minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski. The government was dissolved on September 30, 1939, and it was the last government of the Second Polish Republic which resided in Warsaw.

Members of the government

Other personalities

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

  • September 1. Two checkpoints are opened along the border with Lithuania. Charles Lindbergh with wife land in Kraków, on his way from Moscow to Prague,
  • September 3. Annual
    Eastern Trade Fair
    is opened in Lwów,
  • September 5. According to government statistics, Gdynia is the most expensive Polish city, while Wilno is the cheapest,
  • September 7. Józef Beck leaves Warsaw, and via Berlin goes to Bern, for a session of the League of Nations,
  • September 8. Street clashes between Poles and Jews in Lida,
  • September 10. Polish press informs that construction of the new rail line, between Polish Upper Silesia, and Volhynia, has already started. The 400-kilometer line will go from Tarnowskie Góry to Lutsk, via Sandomierz, and Stalowa Wola. Three people die in a motorcycle accident near Lwów,
  • September 12. Albert William Stevens comes to Zakopane, to witness the stratospheric flight of Gwiazda Polski balloon,
  • September 13. Dissolution of the Polish Parliament,
  • September 14. In
    Seret
    is opened,
  • September 15. Marshall Edward Rydz-Śmigły visits the Polish Army manoeuvres in Volhynia,
  • September 19. In Lutsk, a military parade takes place, to mark the end of the manoeuvres,
  • September 20. Additional units of the Polish Army secure Polish-Czechoslovak border,
  • September 21. Polish envoy to Prague, Kazimierz Papée, demands from government of Czechoslovakia solution of the problem of its Polish minority in the same way as the problem of German minority was solved,
  • September 22. In Trans-Olza, local Poles fight with Czechoslovakian police and army during street manifestations which demand the cession of the area to Poland. On the same day in Warsaw, 250 000 people demand the cession of Trans-Olza. It is the biggest demonstration of the Second Polish Republic,
  • September 23. The Soviet government states that if Polish troops enter Czechoslovakia, Moscow will void the Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact,
  • September 24. At Warsaw's Royal Castle, the meeting of key Polish figures (Józef Beck, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Ignacy Mościcki, Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski) takes place, during which the situation in Czechoslovakia is discussed,
  • September 25. In
    Dniestr
    , connecting Poland and Romania, is opened,
  • September 26. A LOT plane from Warsaw to Budapest is not allowed to fly over Czechoslovakian territory. A clash between Czech soldiers and Poles from Trans-Olza takes place near Zebrzydowice,
  • September 27. A demonstration in Cieszyn, during which local Poles demand the cession of Trans-Olza. Construction of a car factory begins in Lublin,
  • September 28. Land communication between Poland and Czechoslovakia is closed,
  • September 30. Polish government demands the cession of Trans-Olza.

October

  • October 1. Czechoslovakian government agrees to Polish demands, and Trans-Olza is ceded to Poland, and demonstrations take place in several Polish cities,
  • October 2. Units of the
    Cesky Tesin
    ,
  • October 4. Polish Army enters
    Jabłonków
    ,
  • October 6. Polish press speculates about possible creation of Zaolzie Voivodeship, which besides Trans-Olza, would include counties from Lesser Poland and Polish Upper Silesia,
  • October 7. Annual Wine Harvest Festival ends in
    Zaleszczyki
    ,
  • October 8. Polish Army enters
    Frysztat
    ,
  • October 10. Polish Army enters
    Polesie
    ,
  • October 11. Upon decree of President
    Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Polish press speculates about annexation of Spis, and Orava
    – altogether 2,400 km2., with 120 000 inhabitants.
  • October 12. Józef Beck is awarded Order of the White Eagle, by President Ignacy Mościcki. Marshall Rydz-Śmigły visits Trans-Olza,
  • October 13. In Lwów, Ukrainian rally takes place, followed by Polish counter-demonstration,
  • October 14. Unsuccessful stratospheric flight of the Gwiazda Polski balloon. Plans of construction of a motorway Warsaw – Łódź are announced,
  • October 29. Nazi Germany government expels some 12 000 – 17 000 Jews with Polish citizenship to Poland,

November

  • November 1. Upon decree of the President of Poland,
    Spisz
    become part of Poland,
  • November 3. A new, concrete road between Pinsk and Kobryn is opened, after four years of construction,
  • November 4. Due to lack of passengers, all domestic LOT Polish Airlines are closed for the winter, except for the connection Warsaw – Poznań,
  • November 5. In Prague, a joint Polish-Czechoslovak commission draws the new border between the two countries, in the area of Jaworzyna,
  • November 6.
    General election
    in Poland,
  • November 8. Rail communication between Poland and Czechoslovakia is reestablished. Sun eclipse in Kraków,
  • November 8 to November 11.
    Polish legislative election
    ,
  • November 11. Independence Day in Poland. Patriotic demonstrations take place across the country, including Trans-Olza and Lwów,
  • November 12. Local floods in
    Nowogródek
    ,
  • November 15. Polish press informs that construction of main west–east rail line (Upper Silesia – Volhynia) proceeds according to plan,
  • November 16. In Warsaw, leaders of the Jewish minority in Poland declare a month of mourning, protesting against the persecution of Jews in Germany,
  • November 17. SS Pulaski returns to Gdynia from a cruise to South America,
  • November 19. Residents of Lwów celebrate 20th anniversary of
    Battle of Lwów (1918)
    ,
  • November 23. Around 6,000 Jewish refugees, expelled from Nazi Germany, are housed at a transit camp in
    Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland accepts construction of two rail lines, Tarnowskie Góry – Zawiercie, and Skierniewice – Łuków
    ,
  • November 24. All
    Felicjan Sławoj-Składkowski hands his resignation to the president Ignacy Mościcki
    , and Mościcki does not accept it,
  • November 26. Joseph Stalin reaffirms the Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact. Polish envoy to Czechoslovakia, Kazimierz Papée protests against the attack of armed Czechoslovak citizens on Polish soldiers establishing a new border in the area of Čadca,
  • November 27. Polish Army troops seize Jaworzyna,
  • November 28.
    election
    ,
  • November 29. Opening of a 22-kilometer rail line Żory–Pszczyna,
  • November 30. Polish press informs that only 30 citizens of Poland own their private aeroplanes.

December

  • December 2. Speaking in Sejm, Minister Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski describes a plan of development of Poland for the years 1939–1954,
  • December 5. Speaker of Polish Parliament, Vasyl Mudry of Ukrainian minority demands in his parliamentary speech autonomy for the Ukrainians. In the port of Danzig, Polish ship SS Tczew sinks and two people die,
  • December 8. Three people die in a car crash near Gniezno,
  • December 9. In Warsaw, a delegation of Polish civil servants and bank workers presents to the Army a PZL.37 Łoś, purchased with the money collected by them,
  • December 10. Deposits of copper are found in
    Zaleszczyki and Horodenka
    ,
  • December 12. A movie theatre burns down in Gdynia,
  • December 13. Papal Nuncio Filippo Cortesi comes to Lwów. A seismic observatory of Warsaw University is opened in Warsaw,
  • December 16. According to the Polish press, there still are around 5,700 Jews, camping in Zbąszyń on the Polish-German border. A cold wave sweeps over Poland, the temperature in Lwów goes down to minus 21 degrees C,
  • December 18. Local elections in several Polish cities,
  • December 19. Three miners die in coal mine Kazimierz in Sosnowiec. A new rail and road bridge over the Vistula is opened in Płock,
  • December 21. Tatra Park of Nature is opened in Jaworzyna,
  • December 22. The Polish ambassador in Berlin, Józef Lipski, meets with Joachim von Ribbentrop,
  • December 24. Fire in the left-wing of the
    radio
    ,
  • December 27. SS Tczew, which sank in Danzig on December 5 is raised and transported to Gdynia for overhaul. Residents of
    Greater Poland Uprising
    ,
  • December 28. Four people die hit by a train on a railroad crossing in Żyrardów,
  • December 29. Construction of rail line Tarnobrzeg–Kolbuszowa–Rzeszów begins,
  • December 30. The flu epidemic in Poland; in Warsaw 130,000 people are sick. Archbishop Aleksander Kakowski dies in Warsaw,

Arts and literature

Books

Film

Sports

January

  • January 2. Boxers of Warta Poznań become team champions of Poland,
  • January 9. In Warsaw, the reserve ice hockey team of Poland beats Latvia 2–1,
  • January 16. In Warsaw, in an international boxing match, Poland beats Italy 11–5,
  • January 19. In Bern, Polish national ice hockey team beats Switzerland 1–0,
  • January 22. In
    AZS Warszawa becomes a women's volleyball champion of Poland. Second is HKS Łódź, third Olsza Kraków
    ,
  • January 30. Stanisław Marusarz wins a ski-jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

February

March

April

May

June

July

  • July 16. Swimming championships of Poland begin in Bielsko-Biała,
  • July 17. Quarterfinal games of the
    President of Poland's Football Cup
    take place in four cities,
  • July 29. International female lawn tennis match Poland – Czechoslovakia begins in Warsaw,

August

  • August 1. In a two-day track and field match in
    Cernauti, Poland beats Romania 96 – 48. In a friendly football match, Ruch Chorzów beats at home SK Jugoslavija
    5–2,
  • August 2. In a friendly football match, SK Jugoslavija beats ŁKS Łódź 2–0,
  • August 3. In a friendly football game in Warsaw, Poland loses to Hungaria Budapest 1-3 (att. 6000),
  • August 5. In a friendly football match in Łódź, Poland beats Hungaria Budapest 1–0,
  • August 7. In an international boxing match in
    President of Poland's Football Cup
    , Lwów beats at home Łódź 3–2, and Kraków beats Warsaw 3-2 (in Warsaw). Syrena Warsaw becomes team cycling champion of Poland,
  • August 10. In an international track and field match in Oslo, Poland beats Norway 95–93. In Rimini, Poland ties 8–8 with Italy, in the second leg of a boxing match,
  • August 21. In games of the Ekstraklasa, Warta Poznań beats at home AKS Chorzów 4–3, Cracovia beats ŁKS Łódź 6–2, Wisła Kraków beats Warszawianka Warszawa 3–2, Polonia Warszawa beats Śmigły Wilno 3–0, and Ruch Chorzów beats Pogoń Lwów 3–1,
  • August 28. In games of the
    Cracovia
    (att. 5000),
  • August 29. In an international lawn tennis game in Žilina, Czechoslovakia ties 3–3 with Poland. In games of the Ekstraklasa, ŁKS Łódź ties with Warta Poznań 0-0, Ruch Chorzów beats at home AKS Chorzów 4-2 (att. 15 000), Pogoń Lwów beats Warszawianka Warszawa 3-0 (att. 3500), Wisła Kraków beats Śmigły Wilno 4–1, and Cracovia ties with Polonia Warszawa 2-2. In qualifiers to the Ekstraklasa, Garbarnia Kraków beats at home Union Touring Łódź 2–1, and in Luck, local team PKS loses to Śląsk Świętochłowice 1-4 (att. 3000),

September

October

November

December

  • December 4. In a football friendly, the team of Breslau beats at home the team of Warsaw 2–0,
  • December 8. In an international boxing friendly in Warsaw, Poland beats Switzerland 12–4,
  • December 11. In an international boxing match in Łódź, Poland beats Estonia 10–6,
  • December 19. In Katowice, ice-hockey tournament of four cities (Katowice, Kraków, Vienna and Berlin) takes place. The tournament is won by Kraków,
  • December 26. Games of Polish ice-hockey championship begin,

Births

Deaths

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