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Events relating to bohemia
Martial law is imposed in Prague after a demonstration by radical Czech students following a Pan-Slav congress
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud move together to Brussels, and then to London, where they live a dissolute bohemian existence
Czech composer Anton Dvorák writes his first set of Slavonic Dances, originally as piano duets
The faction founded in Bohemia by Tomas Masaryk becomes known as the Progressive party
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian
Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague
Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno
At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader
Franz Kafka publishes Metamorphosis, the tale of a travelling salesman who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect
The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties
The new nation of Czechoslovakia is established from within Austria-Hungary, with Tomas Masaryk as its first president
The peace-makers in Paris assign the Sudetenland, with its 3.5 million German-speaking inhabitants, to the new republic of Czechoslovakia
The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots
Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno
Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno
The Czech novelist Jaroslav Hasek dies with his masterpiece, The Good Soldier Schweik, incomplete
Max Brod disregards Franz Kafka's dying instruction to destroy all his manuscripts
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno
Franz Kafka's novel The Trial is published posthumously
Leos Janacek completes his powerfully scored orchestral work Sinfonietta
Franz Kafka's novel The Castle is published posthumously
Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno
The first of many ballets to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet score is premiered in Czechoslovakia
The Sudeten German National Socialist Party demands secession from Czechoslovakia, in keeping with Hitler's plans for the Sudetenland
