The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic The Polish-Lithuanian Union 1526 The Polish-Lithuanian Republic after 1569

The Union of Lublin, 28 June 1569 The Polish-Lithuanian Union 1526 The Polish-Lithuanian Republic after 1569 From Wikimedia Commons From Wikimedia Commons Privileges of the Polish Szlachta (nobility) Kings of Poland Extended to the Lithuanian & Ruthenian nobility Before 1320 not all rulers of 1386. [...] The Casimir IV Jagiellonczyk powers of the sejmiks therefore predated the (1447–1492) powers of the bicameral central Sejm, Grand Duke of Lithuania established by the 1490s, to which the sejmiks (1440–1492) sent envoys armed with instructions. [...] 1566 Second Lithuanian Statute Establishment of Sigismund II August Polish system of sejmiks & locally elected (1548–1572) courts across the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1569 Union of Lublin. [...] Establishment of common Monarchs elected viritim Sejm for the Kingdom of Poland & the Grand Henry Valois, Duc d’Anjou Duchy of Lithuania. [...] Codification of Lithuanian Law adjusted in light of Union of Lublin.