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Timeline[edit]

Year	Historical events	Fictional events and fictionalized references to historical events
1768	A patriotic faction known as the Bar Confederation unsuccessfully challenges Russia in the Russo-Turkish War.	Maciek Dobrzyński is a member of the Bar Confederation.^{(VI 506)}
1772	First Partition of Poland
1780	Polish patriot Tadeusz Rejtan commits suicide.	A portrait of Rejtan committing suicide is among the paintings hanging in the Judge Soplica's mansion.^{(I 62)} The Tribune used to hunt together with Rejtan.^{(V 510)}
1789	The French Revolution begins. Russian forces commanded by Prince Grigori Potemkin and Gen. Alexander Suvorov capture the fortress of Ochakov during a new Russo-Turkish War.	Capt. Rykov fights in the Siege of Ochakov.^{(X 113)}
1791	The Great Sejm adopts the Constitution of 3 May. Suvorov captures Izmail and massacres its inhabitants.	Pantler Horeszko is a supporter of the constitution. Rykov fights in the Siege of Izmail.^{(X 113)}
1792	A war with Russia, which backed the conservative faction known as the Targowica Confederation, breaks out. Prince Józef Poniatowski and Gen. Tadeusz Kościuszko become Polish heroes, but the war is lost, resulting in the constitution's cancellation.	Jacek Soplica fatally shoots Pantler Horeszko during a siege laid to the Horeszko Castle by the Russian Army. Jacek's son is born and named Tadeusz in Kościuszko's honor. Sometime later Tadeusz's mother dies and Jacek becomes a Bernardine monk, assuming the name Worm (Robak).
1793	Second Partition of Poland
1794	Kościuszko Uprising, an insurgence led by Kościuszko against Russian influence in Poland, breaks out and fails. The final Battle of Praga is followed by a massacre of the civilian population of the Warsaw suburb ordered by Suvorov	Rykov fights in the battles of Racławice and Maciejowice.^{(X 137-139)} Maciek Dobrzyński fights in the Battle of Praga. Paintings of Kościuszko swearing an oath and of Generals Jakub Jasiński and Samuel Korsak defending Praga are among the portraits hanging in Judge Soplica's mansion.
1795	Third Partition of Poland; the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is erased from the map.
1797	Gen. Henryk Dąbrowski musters Polish Legions in Italy. Gen. Józef Wybicki pens Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (Poland Is Not Yet Lost), a song that will become Poland's national anthem.	Jankiel is the first to popularize the Song of the Polish Legions in the Soplicowo area. In 1812, he will play it on a dulcimer in the presence of Gen. Dąbrowski himself. A musical clock playing this patriotic tune is among the furniture of Judge Soplica's mansion.
1798	Adam Mickiewicz is born "in slavery (...) and then swaddled with chain."	Zosia is born to Ewa Horeszkówna and her husband, a voivoide. Her parents are later exiled to Siberia. She is brought up by her aunt Telimena with Father Worm's financial aid.
1799	War of the Second Coalition: Russian forces defeat the French at Novi, but are forced to retreat from Zurich a month later.	Rykov fights in the battles of Novi and Zurich.^{(X 114-116)}
1800	French forces defeat the Austrians in the Battle of Hohenlinden.	Father Worm serves as Gen. Karol Kniaziewicz's messenger at Hohenlinden.
1801		Tadeusz begins his education in Wilno (Vilnius).
1802	The Danube Legion led by Gen. Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski is sent to quell the Haitian Revolution.	Jabłonowski is mentioned in a digression as a commander who "smites Negroes, but sighs for his land."
1804	Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.	Napoleon, dubbed the "god of war" by the author, is mentioned several times in the poem.
1805	Napoleon defeats Austrian and Russian armies in the Battle of Austerlitz during the War of the Third Coalition.	Father Worm^{(IV 418)} and Rykov^{(X 136)} fight – on opposite sides – in the Battle of Austerlitz.
1806	Napoleon defeats the Prussian army in the Battle of Jena. Dąbrowski aides the French war effort by igniting the Greater Poland Uprising.	Bartek Dobrzyński is in Poznań when he learns about the French victory at Jena and joins in the uprising.
1807	Napoleon's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition, concluded with the Treaties of Tilsit, leads to creation of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Free City of Danzig.	Rykov fights in the Battle of Preussisch-Eylau.^{(X 114)} Father Worm treats Gen. Dąbrowski to his tobacco snuff during the Siege of Danzig. The Treaties of Tilsit revive Polish national hopes in the Duchy of Warsaw, but leave Lithuania under Russian rule, disappointing Judge Soplica, among other patriots.
1808	Napoleon defeats Spanish forces in the Battle of Somosierra during the Peninsular War.	Father Worm is twice wounded at Somosierra.
1811	The Great Comet of 1811 is visible to the naked eye during most of the year, becoming most conspicuous in October.	The Tribune and the Chamberlain observe and divine from the comet. On his deathbed, Jacek hears the news that the General Confederation proclaimed reunification of Poland and Lithuania (this, in fact, happened in the following year). See below for details of events in 1811.
1812	The General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland announces the re-establishment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Napoleon's Grande Armée invades Russia soon afterwards.	40 thousand Polish troops serving in the V Corps of the Grande Armée under the command of Prince Poniatowski and generals Dąbrowski, Kniaziewicz, Kazimierz Małachowski, Romuald Giedroyć and Michał Grabowski are quartered at Soplicowo for three days. See below for details of events in 1812.
1813	Napoleon retreats from Russia.	The epic ends in 1812 in a highly optimistic mood and does not mention the tragic fate of the Grande Armée.
1821	Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena.	In the Epilogue, the author says that Lithuanians mourn a dog longer and more sincerely than the French do their hero, i.e. Napoleon.
1830	The November Uprising breaks out and is suppressed by Russia the following year, prompting a new wave of Polish political emigration, known as the Great Emigration.	The November Uprising is alluded to in the Epilogue which speaks of "Mother Poland (...) So freshly entombed".
1834	Mickiewicz finishes his work on Pan Tadeusz and publishes the poem in Paris.

Books 1–10: Summer of 1811[edit]

Day	Book	Events
30 August Friday Sunny Sunny	Book 1	Afternoon: Tadeusz's return Evening: Dinner in the castle
31 August Saturday Scattered clouds Scattered clouds	Book 2	Morning: Hare hunt The Count's arrival Breakfast
31 August Saturday Scattered clouds Scattered clouds	Book 3	Afternoon: Mushroom picking Lunch Evening: Tadeusz's date with Telimena
1 September Sunday Windy Windy	Book 4	Morning: Father Worm's instigation at the inn Bear hunt Afternoon: Lunch in the forest Tadeusz and Telimena meet again
1 September Sunday Windy Windy	Book 5	Evening: Dinner in the castle
2 September Monday Fog Fog	Book 6	Morning: Conversation between Judge Soplica and Father Worm
	Book 7	Afternoon: Council at Maciek Dobrzyński's farm
	Book 8	Evening: Observation of the comet Foray
3 September Tuesday Storm Rain and wind, later thunderstorm	Book 9	Morning: Arrival of Russian troops Breakfast Battle
	Book 10	Afternoon: Negotiations with Capt. Rykov Evening: Farewells Night: Father Worm's death

Books 11–12: Spring of 1812[edit]

Day	Book	Events
24 March Tuesday	Book 11	Evening: Arrival of the Grand Army
25 March Wednesday Feast of Annunciation Scattered clouds Scattered clouds	Book 11	Morning: Holy Mass Rehabilitation of Jacek Soplica Hare hunt
	Book 12	Afternoon: Feast Jankiel's concert Polonaise