28 October 1918
The origin of independent Czechoslovakia (28 October 1918)
In 1918 the exiled Czechoslovak National Council in Paris and the domestic National Czechoslovak Committee prepared for a national revolution and the declaration of an independent state. Exilées established a provisional Czech-Slovak government in autumn 1918 with Masaryk as chairman, and with Beneš and Štefánik. A day after Austria-Hungary accepted the USA’s peace conditions on 27 October 1918, the “men of October” (Rašín, Švehla, Soukup, Stříbrný) declared Czechoslovakia an independent state.