1843 first lectures “on diseases of old age” at Charles University Medical Faculty, Prague by Professor J. Hammerník (1810-1887)
1904 first lectures “on social perspective of diseases of old age” at Charles University Medical Faculty, Prague by Prof. F. Procházka
1929 first Department of Old Age Diseases at Charles University run by Prof.R. Eiselt
1958 establishment of Gerontological Section of the Czech Society of Internal Medicine by Prof. Bohumil Prusík
1962 Czech Society of Gerontology, Czech Medical Association J.E. Purkynje
1974 postgraduate education in geriatrics and gerontology (Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics at Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education in Prague)
1983 Geriatric medicine as a distinct medical specialty
1986 first board-certified specalists in geriatric medicine
1993 renaming the Society as Czech Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
1994 professional journal “Geriatria” of Czech and Slovak Societies of GG