who expressed allegiance to the monarch for the Slovak Matica and the Slovak Nation after the lost Austro-Prussian war. They also handed him the diploma of the founding member of Slovak Matica, which the monarch accepted. 1869 The Book Printing Participant Association (Kníhtlačiarsky účastinársky spolok) was founded in Martin on March 3, the primary goal of which was the effort to create favorable conditions for the publication of Slovak and Matica´s press in the field of book culture. On July 5 died in Svätý Kríž (today Žiar nad Hronom) on the feast of St. Cyril and Methodius, the first Chairman of the Slovak Matica and Bishop Štefan Moyses of Banská Bystrica (born on October 24, 1797). 1873 Vice-Chairman of the Slovak Matica Viliam Pauliny-Tóth and its secretary František Víťazoslav Sasinek reacted in the apologetic file Pro memoria of Slovak Matica, printed by The Book Printing Participant Association and addressed to the Hungarian prime minister József Szlávy, to attacks from the Hungarian movement. 1875 On November 12, the Hungarian government stopped the activities of Slovak Matica. Hungarian government confiscated all Matica´s property, later provided the financial basis of Slovak Matica (in 1885) to the renegade Hungarian-Regional Slovak Educational Association for the Hungarianization of Slovaks, and distributed the collections to county museums. In the years 1863 to 1875, Slovak Matica developed extensive collecting, publishing, educational and scientific activities. It collected archival, library and museum collections. Slovak Matica has published 82 volumes of books, including 12 volumes of the first Slovak scientific journal Letopis Matice slovenskej. It provided scholarships to Slovak researchers and students, established domestic and foreign contacts with Slavic cultural institutions and Maticas, such as the Serbian Matica (1826), Czech Matica [[(1831), Illyrian Matica (1842), Lusatian-Serbian Matica (1847), Matica Galician- Ruthenian Matica (1848), Moravian Matica (1849) and Slovenian Matica (1864). Repeated attempts to restore the activities of Slovak Matica after its closure after in November 1875 were unsuccessful. However, other cultural associations with nationwide scope continued in it, especially Živena (cultural woman institution, 1869), Kníhtlačiarsky účastinársky spolok (The Book Printing Participant Association, 1869), Spolok sv. Vojtecha (1870), Slovenský spevokol (Slovak Singer, 1872) and the Muzeálna slovenská spoločnosť (Slovak Museum Society, 1893). 1893 A compatriot activist and Roman Catholic priest, founded Slovak Matica in America in Chicago (IL, USA). He was responsible for the development of Slovak expatriate cultural and ecclesiastical associations and schools in the USA. Furdek was also the first