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It became a marketplace and a seaport as early as 7th century. It achieved a city status in 1348. Since 1466 it was the place where Starostwo was located. Since 1567 Puck was the main base of the Polish Navy. In 1920 in Puck, Poland celebrated its engagement with the sea.

It is the capital of Puck County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously a town in Gdansk VoivodshipGdansk Voivodship (1 was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975- 1998, superseded by Pomeranian Voivodship. Capital city: Gdansk Statistics (1 January 1992): Area: 7. km Population: 1. 600 inhabitants Population den ( 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i- 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting).

German Concentration campA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the interne existed in years 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St- 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin;.

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• Mayors house ( 18651865 is a common year starting on Sunday. Events January 31 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. February 17 American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forc)
• St Peter's and Paul's cathedral ( 13th century12th century 13th century 14th century other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. Events Fourth through eighth crusades of western European kingdoms against Islam Fall of)
• Burgeoisie houses at the main square (plac Wolnosci), ( 17th century, rebuilt in 19th century)
• Flooded port ( 8th- 10th century) (located some 500 metres from the shore)
• Remnants of a brick castle ( 14th century)
• Memorials of gen. Józef Haller and Engagement of Poland with the sea
• Puck County museum