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| 1947, Jan. 19 |
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| The first general election, preceded by repressive measures against Deputy Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party, gave the government bloc 394 seats and the Peasant Party 28. Both Great Britain and the United States charged that the Yalta provisions for free and honest elections had been violated. | 1 |
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| Feb. 4 |
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| Boleslaw Bierut was elected president of the republic, and Josef Cyrankiewicz formed a new coalition cabinet. | 2 |
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| Feb. 19 |
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| The Diet approved an interim constitution and proclaimed liberty and equality for all citizens. | 3 |
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| Sept |
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| Mikolajczyk was forced to resign. | 4 |
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| Sept. 14 |
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| Poland denounced its concordat and entered on a series of conflicts with the Catholic Church. | 5 |
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| Oct. 24 |
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| A campaign among progovernment members of the Peasant Party for his dismissal led to Mikolajczyk's flight to London and the purge of his followers from the ranks of the Peasant Party. | 6 |
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