"HISTORY:
- 25 000 yrs ago – mammooth hunters lived in Landek. The first people who used coal. When they made fire, put stones around it but it started to burn, because it was coal
- ancient times- Ostrava was on the AMBER ROUTE – a trade route that led from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean
- 1267 – the town statue was established and Ostrava became the private property of Bishop Brune of Olomouc
- 1279 – st. Wenceslas Church – first written documents
- 1297 – silesian Ostrava castle was established
- 1362 – Charles II gave the town the right to hold an anuval market
- 1539 – the Old town hall – first written documents
- 1618 – 1648 – thirty years war – Danish, Swedish troops invaded the town
- 1625 – the plague killed 500 people in Ostrava (half of the population)
- 1763 - coal was discovered in the Busňa Valley in Silesian Ostrava
- 1825 – Rudolph's Foundry (Vítkovice) was established
- 2nd half of the 19th century – industrial expansion
- 1889 – Basilica of the Divine Saviour was built (božského spasitele)
- 1907 – the city theatre was built (Dvořak Theatre)
- 1919 – the National Theatre of Moravia + Silesia was founded (Myron and Dvořak Theatre)
- 1945 – The mining College was moved from Příbram to Ostrava"

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