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Constitutions, Elections and Legislatures of Poland, 1493-1993 by Jacek Jędruch (1998)

Table 15

TABLE 15 --SEYMS OF THE INTERREGNUM PERIODS
Convocation SeymElection SeymCoronation SeymKing Elected
Jan. 1573
Warsaw
Apr. 1573
Warsaw
(Kamion)
Feb. 1574
Cracow
Henry Valois+
Aug. 1574
Warsaw
Nov. 1575
Warsaw (Wola)
Mar. 1576
Cracow
Stephen Bathory
Feb. 1587
Warsaw
June 1587
Warsaw (Wola)
Dec. 1588
Cracow
Sigismund III Vasa
(Maximilian Habsburg)*
June 1632
Warsaw
Sept. 1632
Warsaw (Wola)
Feb. 1633
Cracow
Ladislaus IV Vasa
July 1648
Warsaw
Oct. 1648
Warsaw
Jan. 1649
Cracow
John Casimir Vasa++
Nov. 1668
Warsaw
May 1669
Warsaw (Wola)
Oct. 1669
Cracow
Michał Korybut
Wi¶niowiecki
Jan. 1674
Warsaw
Apr. 1674
Warsaw (Wola)
Feb. 1676
Cracow
John III Sobieski
Aug. 1696
Warsaw
May 1697
Warsaw (Wola, Kamion)
Nov. 1697
Cracow
Augustus II Wettin
Apr. 1733
Warsaw
Aug. 1733
Warsaw (Wola, Kamion)
Jan. 1734
Cracow
Stanislaw Leszczyński
(Augustus III Wettin)**
May 1764
Warsaw
Aug. 1764
Warsaw (Wola)
Dec. 1764
Warsw
Stanislaw August
Poniatowski+++

+Abdicated to become Henri III of France
++Abdicated to enter a monastery
*Outcome unsuccessfully contested by force of anns by Maximilian Habsburg
**Outcome successfully contested by force of arms by Augustus III Wettin, who finally was crowned and assumed power
+++Abdicated on the Third Partition of Poland