Important days

26. 9. 2009

Czech Statehood Day 28th September 2009

The performance of the opera Bartered Bride in the National Theatre and a special series of music recordings of that opera on the occasion celebration of the 10th Czech Statehood Day are organized under the auspices of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. The Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, as well as the Saint Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, belongs among Czech national giants. Concurrently an extraordinary exhibition Bartered Bride – the Czech Opera of Operas" will be opened to the general public. The exhibition has been prepared under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Fischer and it is a joint project of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the National Theatre, the Czech Radio and the National Museum.

Bartered Bride

4. 9. 2009

Declaration of Human and Civic Rights

The period 1789 – 1799 was in France, which was on the edge of the state bankruptcy, a period of the Great French revolution. This revolution is generally perceived as the main crucial point of the European history because it entailed a transition from the absolutism to the civic society and establishing people as the main political power.

Declaration of Human and Civic Rights

4. 9. 2009

21st August, 1968: Black day of Czechoslovak history

The events of August 1968 were a tragic outcome of the Prague Spring, as the short-lived political relaxation in communist Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s is referred to.

29. 6. 2009

June 26 is the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking

Motto: "Are Drugs Controlling Your Life? It's about your life. It's about those close to you. Drugs don't belong there." This year's topic is the illegal drugs trade.

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking

19. 6. 2009

'A Few Sentences' on a Petition From 1989

Major petition events are part of the history of Czech citizenship, and they repeatedly rose and fell in the dramatic intrigues of the 19th and 20th centuries.

A Few Sentences

9. 6. 2009

The 400th anniversary of Rudolf's Imperial Charter on Religious Freedom in the Kingdom of Bohemia

The Czech religious reformation represents one of the most important intellectual wars of aggression of the growing self-confidence of the Czech political, clerical and scholarly elites, together with the unprecedented development of the Kingdom of Bohemia under the rule of the Holy Roman Emperor and Czech King Charles IV. (†1378).

Rudolf's Imperial Charter on Religious Freedom in the Kingdom of Bohemia

22. 10. 2008

The Czech national anthem

New recordings of the Czech national anthem were presented at a ceremony in the Pantheon of the National Museum in Prague on Sunday, the 28th of September, celebrated as a Day of Czech Statehood.

The Czech national anthem