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814 Formation of Serbia
1171 Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja begins sole reign.
1182 Serbia allies itself with Hungary
to gain independen
1190 Stevan Nemanja founds the Studenica monastery in Serbia.
1196 Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia
1217 Kingdom of Serbia founded
1284 Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia, receives Belgrade
, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary
when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.
1286 Prussians settled in exile in Serbia stage a famous uprising.
1330 The Bulgars
under Michael III
are beaten by the Serbs
at Velbuzhd, and large parts of Bulgaria
fall to Serbia.
1331 Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia.
1403 Belgrade became capital of Serbia for the first time.
1448 Battle of Kosovo - Hungarian forces under John Hunyadi
are defeated by the Turks due to the treachery of Prince Dan of Wallachia
and George Brankovic of Serbia.
1456 Lazar Brankovic becomes king of Serbia.
1594 Banat Rebellion of Serbs
against Ottoman
rule ends with the public burning of St Sava's bones in Belgrade
, Serbia
1815 Second Serbian Uprising against Ottoman
rule takes place in Takovo, Serbia. By the end of the year Serbia had been acknowledged as a semi-independent state. Ideals of the First Serbian Uprising have thus been temporarily achieved.
1815 Second Serbian Uprising against Ottoman
rule takes place in Takovo, Serbia. By the end of the year Serbia had been acknowledged as a semi-independent state. Ideals of the First Serbian Uprising have thus been temporarily achieved.
1876 Serbia declares war
on Turkey
.
1877 Serbia restates its previous declaration of war against Turkey
1878 The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia, Montenegro
and Romania
completely independent
1909 Serbia accepts Austria
n control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1912 First Balkan War ends temporarily - Bulgaria
, Greece
, Montenegro
, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey
, ending the two-month long war.
1914 Mr.Hartwig, Russian Minister to Serbia, dies suddenly at Austrian Legation in Belgrade
.
1914 World War I
begins: Austria-Hungary
declares war on Serbia after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
1917 Corfu Declaration that enabled post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia
was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1918 November 26 — the Podgorica Assembly voted for "union of the people", declaring a joining into the Kingdom of Serbia
1920 Republic of Mirdite proclaimed near Albania
n-Serbian border with Yugoslav
support
1939 The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik was published.
1941 World War II: Serbia starts the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers.
1946 Yugoslavia
's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union
, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia
, Macedonia
, Montenegro
, Serbia and Slovenia
).
, elected President of Argentina in February 1946]]
1990 Slobodan Miloševic
becomes President of Serbia.
1992 The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(without the presence of Serbian political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
.
1992 Serbian troops, as a result of a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia
, besiege the city of Sarajevo
(the beginning of the Bosnian War).
1994 US
F-16 pilots shoot down four Serbian fighter aircraft over Bosnia for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.
1995 Operation Storm is over, UN-brokered ceasefire
, remaining Serbian forces start a surrender.
1995 A Serbian Mortar bomb near a Sarajevo
market square kills 37 civilians.
1997 After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Miloševic
recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 Serbian police begin to wipe out so-called "terrorist gangs" in Kosovo
.
1999 Kosovo War
: Kosovo
's main border crossings are closed by Serbian forces to prevent ethnic Albania
ns from leaving.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO
suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic
agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo
.
1999 In Belgrade
, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslav
President Slobodan Miloševic
.
2000 President Slobodan Miloševic
leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia and the withdrawal of Russian support. This political event became known as 5th October Revolution in Serbia.
2003 Serbian
Prime Minister Zoran Đindic is assassinated in Belgrade
.
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