History

Troops and scientists are launching an expedition to Lithuania’s northern district of Šiauliai to search for the remains of a plane that crashed into the local lake of Rėkyva 88 years ago. […]

The last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth sat in conference on 17 June – 23 November 1793 under the conditions of Russian occupation. The Sejm was convened at the request of the Empress Catherine II of Russia. […]

Although today, after hearing the word “innovation”, many of us still think about rocket science, most of the innovations of the past 100 years in the world and Lithuania were simple of make yet were very useful improvements and inventions. They improved the daily lives of millions of people, but often we have never heard the inventors’ names. […]

Lithuanian and Polish ethnic territories did not have a common border in the Middle Ages because they were separated by Yotvingian lands. The first closer contacts between Lithuanians and Poles date back to 1209–1211, when Lithuanians started organising raids into Polish lands. […]

Communities of city burghers created self-governing cities as a result of the city burghers’ struggles with sovereigns for cities’ rights and freedoms at first in Western Europe from the 11th century to the 13th century, and in Central Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. The self-governing city burgher communities were legally separated from the state and received independence from the noble class. […]