Timeline Wednesday 5 August 1772

Events on Wednesday 5 August 1772 1

• 1772 First Partition of Poland Russia, Prussia, and Austria carve up Polish-Lithuanian territory On 5 August 1772, Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed a treaty dividing roughly a third of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth among themselves. It was the first of three partitions that would erase Poland from the map by 1795. The commonwealth was left militarily unable to resist the three neighboring powers.