Thursday, May 30, 2013
0681-08-09 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
0811-07-26 - Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine
0917-08-20 - Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
0927-05-27 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia.
1014-07-29 - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1205-04-15 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1230-03-09 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1393-07-17 - Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1870-02-28 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1876-05-02 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
1876-06-02 - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1878-03-03 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879-01-25 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1885-09-06 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1885-11-13 - Serbian army occupies Bulgaria
1908-09-22 - Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1908-10-05 - Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1912-03-12 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
1912-10-17 - Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey
1912-11-05 - Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
1912-12-03 - Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1913-03-26 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913-06-29 - 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1913-07-01 - Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1913-07-10 - Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1913-07-20 - Turkish troop take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1913-08-10 - 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1913-09-21 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1915-10-05 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1915-10-11 - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1915-10-16 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1915-10-19 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1916-08-17 - Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
1916-09-01 - Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1918-10-03 - Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1918-10-03 - Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne
1919-10-06 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1919-11-27 - Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
1920-08-09 - Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
1920-09-04 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923-06-09 - Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown
1929-03-06 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1933-03-09 - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1934-05-19 - Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1935-04-21 - King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1940-09-07 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1941-01-21 - 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941-03-01 - German troops invade Bulgaria
1941-03-02 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
1941-04-19 - Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1942-06-05 - USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
1943-01-20 - Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian
1943-08-16 - Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944-08-26 - Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
1944-09-01 - Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1944-09-08 - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
1944-09-09 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944-09-15 - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944-10-28 - Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact
1946-09-08 - Bulgaria ends monarchy
1946-10-27 - Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
1946-11-21 - Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1949-07-20 - Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1955-05-14 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1955-07-27 - Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1956-04-03 - Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956-04-17 - Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
1962-11-19 - Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1964-09-29 - Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1966-08-31 - Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1966-11-24 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
1971-05-16 - Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1971-05-18 - Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1979-04-10 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1984-01-10 - Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1987-08-30 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½")
1988-08-20 - Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1988-12-27 - Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
1989-11-03 - 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989-11-10 - Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns
1992-01-15 - Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
1994-07-16 - Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup
1994-09-04 - Bulgarian government of Berov falls
1994-12-18 - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1998-10-29 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
2001-07-24 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001-08-01 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2002-11-21 - NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2004-03-29 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2005-04-25 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2007-01-01 - Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
2007-05-13 - Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
2012-07-18 - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
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