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Tens of thousands of people gather in Prague, Czech Republic, in support of President Petr Pavel in his dispute with foreign minister Petr Macinka and his party Motorists for Themselves.
2026-02-1

A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. Czech prime minister Petr Fiala says the arson attack is part of Russia's hybrid war against his country.
2025-06-9

In tennis, Markéta Vondroušová of the Czech Republic defeats Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the women's singles title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first unseeded player in history to win the Wimbledon title.
2023-07-15

In association football, West Ham United defeat ACF Fiorentina 2–1 at the Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czech Republic, to win the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League and qualify for the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League.
2023-06-7

The Czech Republic records its highest temperature for the month of June, 39.0 C, in Řež. Parts of Austria, Germany and Poland also report record high temperatures.
2022-06-19

The Czech Republic, Slovenia, and the United Arab Emirates confirm their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-05-24

The Sky Bridge 721 opens in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic. Spanning 721 m, it is longest simple suspension bridge in the world.
2022-05-13

The Czech Republic recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel's capital "in practice".
2017-12-7

The president of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, marks the 26th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by attending an anti-Islam rally in Prague with the "Bloc against Islam" group which supports the president. The rally is also attended by observers from the German protest movement, PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) and Tommy Robinson, a prominent British anti-Islam activist. Zeman tells the crowd of several thousand that they aren't extremists for advocating closing the Republic’s borders to Muslim migrants.
2015-11-17

Centre-right parties win 118 seats, with two of them—TOP 09 and Public Affairs—standing in the election for the first time. A centre-right coalition, with Petr Nečas as new Prime Minister, is believed to be "almost certain".
2010-05-30