 During the January Uprising, on initiative of a local nobleman Ignacy Solman, a regiment was formed, which was engaged in a skirmish with the Russians near Janów Lubelski.Solman was killed by the Cossacks, and in 1869 Russian government punished Modliborzyce by reducing it to the status of a village.Modliborzyce was one of local centers of the Home Army, and German occupation ended in July 1944.