The firing of a Gdansk shipyard worker in 1980 triggered a “butterfly effect” that led to the collapse of the Soviet empire, the prime minister said on Thursday.
Poland's party the New Left on Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of a constitutional referendum that paved the way for the introduction of the country's current supreme law.
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, on Tuesday, paid tribute to Poland's Constitution of 3 May 1791, one of the most progressive supreme laws in Europe at the time.
The first constitution of its type in Europe, and the second in the world just four years after America’s, it has remained a symbol of freedom, national pride and patriotism until today.
Sirens wailed across the Polish capital at noon on Tuesday to mark the 79th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Polish officials marked the 82nd anniversary of the massacre of Polish POWs by the Soviet secret police NKVD on Wednesday, with the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, urging for the crime of Katyn not to be forgotten.
Poland, on Sunday, commemorated the 12th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, which killed 96 people, including Poland's then president Lech Kaczyński.
Sirens wailed at 8:41 a.m. across Poland on Sunday to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, which killed 96 people, including Poland's then president Lech Kaczynski, during a landing attempt on a military airfield in western Russia.
Around 10,000 Hasidic Jews, mainly from Europe and the United States, are expected to visit the town of Lezajsk, in southeastern Poland, to take part in commemorations marking the 235th anniversary of the death of Tzaddik Elimelech Weissblum of Lizhensk.
Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, in a letter on Wednesday commemorated the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jews during Aktion Reinhardt.
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