Lithuanian language as well as use of Latin alphabet were prohibited in public publications, only Lithuanian-language publications that used Cyrillic were allowed and even encouraged.
On this day, Austrian, Prussian, and Russian representatives met to dissolve the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as the Third Partition of Poland, which ended the existence of an independent Polish and Lithuanian state for the next 123 years.
The Battle of Vilnius. It was an attack by Russian and Cossack forces on Vilnius, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, that occurred on 8 August 1655 during the Russo-Polish War (1654–67)
1503
War between Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Russian state (Lithuanian-Moscow truce). Lithuania lost approximately 210,000 square kilometres (81,000 sq mi), or a third of its territory.
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