Thursday, May 30, 2013
1443-11-28 - Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.
1912-09-15 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1912-11-18 - Albania declares independence from Turkey
1912-11-27 - Albanian National Flag adopted
1912-11-28 - Albania declares it's Indepenence from Turkey
1913-04-22 - Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
1913-05-06 - King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
1913-05-30 - New country of Albania, forms
1913-07-29 - Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1913-08-13 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913-09-23 - Serbian troops march into Albania
1913-10-18 - Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave
1914-03-07 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1914-09-03 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
1915-11-24 - Serbian leader flees to Albania
1924-12-24 - Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
1925-01-21 - Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
1925-01-22 - Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
1926-07-30 - Albanian boundaries deduced
1926-11-27 - Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
1927-03-10 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
1928-09-01 - Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
1936-11-09 - Albanian government of Frasheri falls
1939-04-07 - Italy invades Albania
1939-04-08 - King Zog I of Albania, flees
1939-04-10 - Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1940-04-12 - Italy annexes Albania
1941-01-03 - Italian counter offensive in Albania
1941-02-28 - British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1941-11-08 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1944-05-24 - Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
1944-11-29 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1945-11-10 - General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1946-01-11 - Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
1946-10-22 - 2 British ships sink near Albania
1949-04-09 - UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages
1955-05-14 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1961-02-19 - Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
1961-12-10 - USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1967-02-06 - Cultural Revolution in Albania
1968-09-12 - Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1968-09-13 - Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1970-11-18 - Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1976-12-27 - Albania constitution goes into effect
1978-07-13 - Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1981-03-26 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1985-04-13 - Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1991-02-20 - A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1991-03-31 - Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1991-06-04 - 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1992-04-04 - Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1997-11-28 - First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
1998-11-28 - The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
1999-01-15 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
1999-04-14 - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
2001-08-01 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
2003-11-01 - Panajot Pano is selected as the Golden Player of Albania by the Football Association of Albania as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee
2009-04-01 - Croatia and Albania joined NATO
2012-05-21 - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
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