Hradec Kr lov of Charles University and with the University Hospital in Hradec Kr lov . Hradec Kr lov and with Electrotechnical Faculty of Czech Technical University . It also cooperates with a number of other civilian Universities and scientific institutions. I from the year 1225 speaks of the free royal town. Modern surgical wards and a campus were opened in the 1970s and 1980s, and the Charles University Medical Faculty was established in the city in 1945.
Military history is similarly well-known.
The Imperial Catholic Army captured the town from Swedish troops on 20th February 1640. The town was burned down by groups of Prussian cavalry in 1760, as a consequence of which a military fortress was built between the years 1766 - 1789. The Military Medical Academy was founded in Hradec Kr lov in 1951, its students hall of residence was built between 1972 and 1975, and the new campus was completed in 1981. The Academy is a self-governing institution, a military school of University Status in compliance with the Act Nr. In its educational and scientific activities it works in close collaboration with the Medical and Pharmaceutical Faculties of Charles University in Hradec Kr lov .