Jan Długosz mentions, that the local hunting manor was visited by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila.

[5] On 1 March 1605, Ulrich Hosius' great-grandson sold the village and the adjoining land for 5000 złoty to canon of Vilna Wilczopolski, who in turn donated it to the Jesuits in 1609.

A group of Polish revolutionaries led by Józef Piłsudski stole roughly 200,000 Russian rubles[nb 2] from a passenger train.

It is usually being said, that this sum was intended for the construction of an electric tram lines in Vilnius (Vilniaus arklinis tramvajus [lt]), that were never built in the aftermath.

Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski, the owner of the nearby village of Arvydai and future Prime Minister of Poland financed a new public school in Bezdany.

Roughly half[citation needed] of pre-war inhabitants were evicted and expelled[dubious – discuss] to within post-war Poland.