The University of Warsaw was founded in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, when Warsaw was the capital of Congress Poland, a kingdom ruled in personal union by the Russian tsar. It was created by Tsar Alexander I as the Royal University of Warsaw and grew into an important centre of Polish learning. After the failed uprising of 1830 and 1831, the Russian authorities closed it, and Polish scholarship moved underground or abroad. The university reopened in 1915 and flourished in independent Poland. During the German occupation in the Second World War, it was closed again, yet professors secretly continued teaching. Today it is the largest university in Poland and a leading research institution in Central Europe.
Before and after
- 1816The Year Without a Summer
- 21 April 1816Birth of Charlotte Brontë
- 1 June 1816Founding of Austrian National Bank
- 27 August 1816Bombardment of Algiers
- 19 November 1816Founding of University of Warsaw
- 1817Discovery of cadmium
- from 1817 to 1818Great Rebellion of 1817–1818
- 1817Discovery of lithium
- 1817Discovery of selenium
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The era
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