TIMELINE
4.07.1928 – The Founding Convention of the Sybiraks’ Association
On 4 July 1928, the founding congress of the Sybiraks' Association was held at the Warsaw University of Technology.
17.02.1926 – Unexpected death of the metropolitan
Father Jan Cieplak was auxiliary bishop of the Mogilev archdiocese, at that time the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the world, covering the whole of Russia up to Sakhalin.
6.07.1866 – Polish Uprising beyond Lake Baikal
On the night of 6 to 7 July (24/25 June old style) 1866, 5,000 kilometres east of their homeland, a group of January insurgents sent to Baikal for penal labour stirred up a rebellion, disarmed their guards and tried to forge an escape route to Mongolia.
