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1945 Josip Broz Tito
forms a government in Yugoslavia
1945 World War II: Troops of Yugoslav
4th Army together with Slovene 9th Corpus NOV enter Trieste
.
1945 World War II: Yugoslav
Army capitulates to the New Zealand Army
, in Trieste
and hands over the city.
1945 Yugoslav
Army leaves Trieste
, leaving the New Zealand Army
in control.
1945 The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared (this day was celebrated as Republic Day until 1990s). Marshal Tito is named president.
1946 Female suffrage in Belgium
, Romania
, Yugoslavia
, Argentina
and Canadian province of Quebec
. First female police officers in Korea and Japan.
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]]
1947 Paris
peace treaties signed between the World War II
Allies and Italy
, Hungary
, Romania
m Bulgaria
and Finland
: Italy cedes most of Istria to Yugoslavia
1948 Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia
and Soviet/Yugoslav split.
1953 Marshal Josip Broz Tito
chosen President of Yugoslavia
1962 Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia
, is given further sentence for publishing ''Conversations with Stalin''.
1963 Yugoslavia
is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito
is named President for Life
.
1972 Yugoslavian
air stewardress Vesna Vulovic is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia
. She survives after falling about 30,000' in the tail section of the aircraft.
1972 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
visits Yugoslavia
.
1978 Josip Broz Tito
is named for Yugoslav
president for life
.
1980 Yugoslav
president Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade
from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II
in 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
1991 Croatia
and Slovenia
declare their independence from Yugoslavia
.
1991 The Croatia
n Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
.
1991 The United Nations Security Council
unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping
operations in Yugoslavia
.
1992 The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up. Slovenia
and Croatia
gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries.
1992 The United Nations Security Council
approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to the Yugoslavia
.
1992 The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(without the presence of Serbia
n political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 The 2 remaining countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro
form a new state under name - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II
).
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