Jagiellon dynasty unites Poland and Lithuania
February 1386
The pagan grand duke Jogaila of Lithuania accepted baptism, the name Wladyslaw, the hand of the eleven-year-old Queen Jadwiga, and the throne of Poland. With one ceremony the largest country in Europe was created and the conversion of Lithuania, paganism's last European stronghold, became official policy that would reshape the Baltic for centuries.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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