Timeline_of_Croatian_history

Timeline of Croatian history

Important legal and territorial changes and political events in Croatia

This is a timeline of Croatian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Croatia and its predecessor states. Featured articles are in bold. To read about the background to these events, see History of Croatia. See also the list of rulers of Croatia and years in Croatia.

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Year	Date	Event
660		Porga became knez of the Principality of Littoral Croatia.
660		Littoral Croatia was Christianized.^[1]

Year	Date	Event
803		Borna became knez of Littoral Croatia following the death of his father Višeslav.
810		Ljudevit became knez of the Slavs in Lower Pannonia.
823		Ljudevit died.^[3]
838		Knez Ratimir was deposed from the throne of Lower Pannonia in favor of the pro-French Ratbod.
839		Knez Mislav of Littoral Croatia signed a peace treaty with the Republic of Venice^[4] during the early phase of the Croatian-Venetian wars.
840		Venetian Doge Pietro Tradonico led a failed assault on the nearby Croat land of Pagania.
840		The Byzantine Emperor Basil I helped break an Arab siege of Dubrovnik.^[5]^[6]
846		Pagania breached Venice and raided the Venetian town of Caorle.^[4]
879	7 June	Pope John VIII styled knez Branimir of Littoral Croatia Duke of Croats, effectively recognizing Littoral Croatia as an independent state.^[7]
887	18 September	Venetian Doge Pietro I Candiano was killed in an attempted invasion of Pagania.^[8]

Year	Date	Event
925		Knez Tomislav of Littoral Croatia was crowned King of a united Croatia, establishing the Trpimirović dynasty^[9]^[10]
926		Croatian–Bulgarian battle of 926: Tomislav defeated the invading forces of the Bulgarian Empire.^[9]
928		Pope Leo VI transferred the bishopric at Nin to Skradin.^[11]
948		Venice tried and failed to capture Dubrovnik.^[12]
949		King Miroslav was killed by Ban Pribina during a civil war started by his younger brother Michael Krešimir II, who succeeded him.
986		Byzantine Emperor Basil II recognized Croatia as an independent kingdom and declared King Stephen Držislav the Patriarch of Dalmatia and Croatia.
996		Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo stopped paying tax to the Croatian King after a century of peace, renewing old hostilities and starting a new phase of the Croatian-Venetian wars.
998		Siege of Zadar: Emperor Samuil of Western Bulgarian Tsardom launched a military campaign against Kingdom of Croatia and besieged the city of Zadar.

Year	Date	Event
1000		Battle of Lastovo: Doge Pietro II Orseolo of the Republic of Venice attacked the Town of Lastovo in the Kingdom of Croatia and destroyed it.
1020		King Krešimir III was accused in the death of his brother Gojslav. Pope Benedict VIII withdrew his title pending an investigation.^[13]
1020		Krešimir was restored.^[13]
1058		Peter Krešimir IV "The Great" succeeded his father Stephen I upon his death.
1076	8 October	Demetrius Zvonimir was crowned King in Solin by a representative of Pope Gregory VII.^[9]
1091		King Stephen II died peacefully without an heir, bringing the Trpimirović dynasty to a close.^[14]
1097		Battle of Gvozd Mountain: King Petar Snačić died in a loss to King Coloman of Hungary.^[15]

Year	Date	Event
1102		The Croatian nobility agreed to the Pacta conventa under which Croatia was joined in a personal union with Hungary, with the King appointing the Ban of Croatia and the Croatian nobility holding power in a Sabor, or Parliament.^[16]^[17]
1185		Serbian forces launched a failed siege against Dubrovnik.^[18]

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Year	Date	Event
1204	26 August	Emeric abdicated the throne to his young son Ladislaus III of Hungary.
1205	7 May	Ladislaus died. He was succeeded by Emeric's younger brother Andrew II of Hungary.
1235	21 September	Andrew died. He was succeeded by his son Béla IV of Hungary.
1242	16 November	Béla issued the Golden Bull of 1242, giving the residents of Gradec some individual and democratic rights and releasing them from allegiance to local lords.^[19]^[20]
1270	3 May	Béla died. He was succeeded by his son, Stephen V of Hungary.
1272	6 August	Stephen died. He was succeeded by his son Ladislaus IV of Hungary.
1293		Paul I Šubić of Bribir became Ban of Croatia.
1299		Paul conquered Bosnia, taking the title of Dominus of Bosnia, and appointing his brother Mladen I Šubić of Bribir Ban of Bosnia.^[21]

Year	Date	Event
1301	14 January	Andrew died without a son. Charles Martel's son Charles I of Hungary was crowned King of Hungary.
1301	27 August	The Hungarian nobility crowned Wenceslaus III of Bohemia King of Hungary and Croatia.
1305		After quashing resistance in Bosnia, Paul I Šubić took the title Lord of All Bosnia and the exclusive power of coining money.^[21]^[22]
1305	6 December	Wenceslaus III of Bohemia abdicated the throne to Otto III, Duke of Bavaria.
1307	June	Otto was imprisoned by the Transylvanian Voivode Ladislaus Kán.
1307	10 October	The Hungarian nobility elected Charles King.
1308		Otto abdicated his claim to the Hungarian throne.
1312	1 May	Paul I Šubić died. His son Mladen II Šubić of Bribir succeeded him as Ban.
1322		Battle of Bliska: Mladen lost to a coalition of Croatian noblemen at Trogir.
1322	8 October	Charles dismissed Mladen as Ban.
1342	16 July	Charles died. He was succeeded by his son Louis I of Hungary.
1345	12 August	Siege of Zadar was laid by the Republic of Venice.
1358	18 February	The Treaty of Zadar was signed. Venice ceded Dalmatia to Croatia.
1370	17 November	Louis became King of Poland on the death of Casimir III the Great.
1382	11 September	Louis died. He was succeeded in Hungary by his ten-year-old daughter Mary, Queen of Hungary with his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia acting as regent.
1385		Mary was overthrown by Charles III of Naples.
1386	7 February	Charles was assassinated on Elizabeth's orders.
1387	31 March	Mary was again crowned Queen of Hungary. Her husband Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor was crowned King.
1390		Charles's son Ladislaus of Naples expressed a claim to the throne of Hungary.
1392		Sigismund appointed Nicholas II Garay Ban of Croatia.
1395	17 May	Mary died under suspicious circumstances. Sigismund became the sole ruler of Croatia and Hungary.
1397		Nicholas left office.
1397	27 February	Bloody Sabor of Križevci: Croatian Ban Stjepan II Lacković was killed in Križevci for supporting Ladislaus against King Sigismund.^[23]^[24]

Year	Date	Event
1403	5 August	Hungarian nobles opposed to Sigismund crowned Ladislaus King.
1406		Hermann II, Count of Celje became Ban of Croatia.
1408		Hermann left office.
1409		Ladislaus sold his rights on Dalmatia to Venice.^[25]
1437	9 December	Sigismund died.
1438	1 January	Sigismund's son-in-law Albert II of Germany was crowned King of Hungary and Croatia according to his will.
1439	27 October	Albert died without a male heir; his wife was pregnant with his son Ladislaus the Posthumous.
1440	22 February	Ladislaus was born.
	15 May	Władysław III of Poland accepted the Hungarian crown from the nobility.
	15 May	Ladislaus's mother crowned him King.
1444	10 November	Battle of Varna: Władysław died in a battlefield loss to the Ottoman Empire. The Hungarian nobility elected Ladislaus, then imprisoned in Schloss Ort by his second cousin Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, with John Hunyadi acting as regent.
1452		Ladislaus was freed by Ulrich II, Count of Celje, who became his guardian and effectively his regent.
1456	9 November	Ulrich was killed by Hunyadi's son Ladislaus.
1457	16 March	Ladislaus had Ladislaus Hunyadi beheaded and fled Hungary.
1457	23 November	Ladislaus died, probably of leukemia.
1458	20 January	The Hungarian nobility elected Ladislaus Hunyadi's brother Matthias Corvinus King.
1472		Nicholas of Ilok became Ban of Croatia.
1472		Nicholas left office.
1483		Matija Gereb was made Ban.
1489		Gereb left office.
1490	6 April	Matthias died without legitimate heirs.
1490	18 September	The Hungarian nobility elected Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary as King.
1493	9 September	Battle of Krbava field: Croatia suffered a defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.^[26]^[27]
1499		Matthias's illegitimate son John Corvinus became Ban of Croatia.

Year	Date	Event
1504	12 October	Corvinus died.
1513		Petar Berislavić was appointed Ban of Croatia.
1516	13 March	Vladislaus died. He was succeeded by his ten-year-old son Louis II of Hungary, with a royal council appointed by the Hungarian diet acting as regent.
1520	20 May	Berislavić was killed.
1521		Ivan Karlović became Ban.
1524		Karlović left office.
1526	29 August	Battle of Mohács: Louis died childless in a crushing defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Empire near Mohács.^[28]
	10 November	John Zápolya was crowned King of Hungary.
	December	Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor crowned himself King of Hungary.
1527		Karlović again became Ban.
	1 January	1527 election in Cetin: The Croatian nobility unanimously elected Ferdinand King and confirmed the succession to his heirs, ending the personal union with Hungary.^[28]
	27 September	Battle of Tarcal: Forces allied to Ferdinand dealt a bloody defeat to supporters of Zápolya.
1528	20 March	Battle of Szina: Zápolya was defeated and forced to flee to Poland.
1531		Karlović died.
1537		Petar Keglević became Ban.
1538	24 February	The Treaty of Grosswardein was signed, dividing Hungary between Ferdinand and Zápolya and making Ferdinand heir to the entire kingdom on the death of the then-childless Zápolya.^{[citation needed]}
1540	18 July	Zápolya had a son, John II Sigismund Zápolya.
1540	22 July	Zápolya died. The Hungarian nobility recognized his son John II as King.
1542		Keglević was removed from office.
1542		Nikola Šubić Zrinski was appointed Ban.
1553		In response to repeated Ottoman incursions, Ferdinand established the directly administered Croatian Military Frontier.
1556		Zrinski was removed from office.
1557		Péter Erdődy was appointed Ban.
1564	25 July	Ferdinand died. He was succeeded by his son Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1566	8 September	Siege of Szigetvár: The forces of the Ottoman Empire suffered losses taking the fortress at Szigetvár that forced them to abandon their advance on Vienna.^[29]
1567		Erdődy died.
1570		Hungarian King John II abdicated the throne to Maximilian.
1573	28 January	Croatian–Slovenian peasant revolt: A peasant revolt led by Matija Gubec began which sought to overthrow the power of the nobility.
1573	9 February	Croatian–Slovenian peasant revolt: Gubec was captured.
1576	12 October	Maximilian died. He was succeeded by his son Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1578		Krsto Ungnad was appointed Ban.
1583		Ungnad left office. He was succeeded as Ban by Tamás Erdődy.
1584	26 October	Battle of Slunj: Invading Ottoman forces were defeated by the defending Croatian army.
1592		Siege of Bihać: Once capital of Croatia conquered by the Ottomans; never reconquered back, lost for Croatia forever.
1593	22 June	Battle of Sisak: Croatia dealt the Ottoman Empire a crushing defeat at Sisak.^[30]
1595		Erdődy left office.

Year	Date	Event
1608		Erdődy again became Ban.
1608	19 November	Rudolf was deposed from the throne of Croatia by his brother Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor.
1615		Erdődy left office.
1618	1 July	Matthias was succeeded by his cousin Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1622	15 November	Juraj V Zrinski was appointed Ban.
1626	28 December	Zrinski was poisoned.
1637	15 February	Ferdinand II died. He was succeeded by his son Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor.
1647		Nikola Zrinski was appointed Ban of Croatia.
1657	2 April	Ferdinand III died. He was succeeded by his son Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1663	September	Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664): An Ottoman army invaded Hungary.
1664	5 June	Siege of Novi Zrin (1664): Ottoman forces started to besiege the fortress in Međimurje County.
	1 August	Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664) : Ottoman forces were dealt a decisive defeat by the League of the Rhine at Szentgotthárd.
	10 August	Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664): The Peace of Vasvár was signed, ending hostilities for twenty years and ceding some Croatian land to the Ottoman Empire.
	18 November	Nikola Zrinski died.
1665	24 January	Petar Zrinski was appointed Ban.
1671	30 April	Zrinski was executed for high treason in connection with the Magnate conspiracy.
1671		Miklós Erdődy was appointed Ban of Croatia.
1693		Erdődy died.

Year	Date	Event
1704	24 January	János Pálffy was appointed Ban.
1705	5 May	Leopold died. He was succeeded as king by his son Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1711	17 April	Joseph died of smallpox. He was succeeded by his younger brother Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1713	9 April	Charles issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, which made it possible for women to inherit the Habsburg throne.
1732	17 February	Pálffy left office.
1740	20 October	Charles died. He was succeeded by his daughter, Queen Maria Theresa.
1743	16 March	Károly József Batthyány became Ban.
1756		The capital was moved from Zagreb to Varaždin.
1756	6 July	Batthyány left office.
1758		Arithmetika Horvatzka, Croatia's first arithmetic textbook is published in Zagreb by Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić (1724–1787).
1776		A fire destroyed two-thirds of Varaždin.^[31]^[32] The Croatian capital moved back to Zagreb.
1780	29 November	Maria Theresa died. Her son Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor became King of Croatia.
1790	20 February	Joseph died. He was succeeded by his younger brother Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1792	1 March	Leopold died. He was succeeded by his son Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Year	Date	Event
1804	11 August	Francis established the Austrian Empire on the territories of the Habsburg monarchy.
1806		Ignaz Gyulai was appointed Ban of Croatia.
1831	11 November	Gyulai died.
1832	10 February	Franjo Vlašić was appointed Ban.
1835	2 March	Francis died of fever. He was succeeded as king by his son Ferdinand I of Austria.
1840	16 May	Vlašić died. He was succeeded as acting Ban by Juraj Haulik.
1845	29 July	Thirteen protesters, the July victims, were killed in Zagreb while protesting a flawed local election.
1848	15 March	Hungarian Revolution of 1848: Revolutionaries read the 12 points of the Hungarian Revolutionaries of 1848 before a crowd in Buda. The crowd marched on the Imperial Governing Council and forced Ferdinand's representatives to sign them.
	23 March	Josip Jelačić was appointed Ban.
	11 April	Ferdinand signed the April Laws, devolving some powers to the Kingdom of Hungary.
	19 April	The Sabor proclaimed the union of the Croatian provinces, their secession from the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austrian Empire, and the abolition of serfdom. It further declared the equality of peoples in Croatia.^[33]
	29 September	Battle of Pákozd: A revolutionary army seeking Hungarian independence from Austria forced a Croatian retreat.
	2 December	Hungarian Revolution of 1848: Ferdinand abdicated in favor of his nephew Franz Joseph I of Austria.
1859	20 May	Jelačić died.
1859	28 July	Johann Baptist Coronini-Cronberg was appointed Ban.
1860	19 June	Josip Šokčević was appointed Ban.
1866	14 June	Austro-Prussian War: Prussia declared war on Austria.
	3 July	Battle of Königgrätz: Austria suffered a devastating defeat at Prussian hands at Königgrätz.
	23 August	Austro-Prussian War: The Peace of Prague (1866) was signed, ending the war.
1867	30 March	The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 was ratified, establishing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary which devolved almost all power to the Austrian and Hungarian kingdoms respectively.^{[citation needed]}
	27 June	Levin Rauch was appointed acting Ban.
	20 October	A new electoral law reduced the size of the Sabor to sixty-six seats.
1868		The Croatian–Hungarian Settlement was signed by the Hungarian Parliament and the Croatian Sabor. The Kingdom of Slavonia was incorporated into Croatia; the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was established as an autonomous state within Hungary.^[34]
1871	26 January	Koloman Bedeković succeeded Rauch as Ban.
	8 October	Rakovica Revolt: Politician Eugen Kvaternik declared the establishment of an independent Croatian government, seated at Rakovica and incorporating the Croatian Military Frontier.^{[citation needed]}
	11 October	Rakovica Revolt: Kvaternik was executed.
1873	20 September	Ivan Mažuranić became Ban.
1880	21 February	Ladislav Pejačević succeeded Mažuranić as Ban.
1881		The Croatian Military Frontier was incorporated into Croatia-Slavonia.
1883	19 April	Croatian parliamentary by-election, 1883: The first day of elections to the Sabor from the former territories of the Croatian Military Frontier was held.^{[citation needed]}
	21 April	Croatian parliamentary by-election, 1883: The last day of elections was held. The government list won a majority of available seats.
	4 September	Hermann von Ramberg succeeded Pejačević as Ban.
	1 December	Ramberg was dismissed.
	4 December	Károly Khuen-Héderváry became Ban.
1884	16 September	Croatian parliamentary election, 1884: The first day of balloting was held.
1884	19 September	Croatian parliamentary election, 1884: The last day of balloting was held. The People's Party won a majority of seats in the Sabor.
1895	16 October	1895 visit of Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb: Student protesters burned the Hungarian flag in Ban Jelačić Square.
1897	19 May	Croatian parliamentary election, 1897: The first day of elections was held.
1897	22 May	Croatian parliamentary election, 1897: The last day of balloting was held. The People's Party won a majority of seats in the Sabor.

Year	Date	Event
2001		The Chamber of Counties was abolished by Constitutional amendment.
2003	23 November	Croatian parliamentary election, 2003: The HDZ won a plurality of seats in the Sabor.
2003	23 December	Ivo Sanader of the HDZ was confirmed Prime Minister by the Sabor, with the Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) and Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) joining the HDZ in coalition.
2005	2 January	Croatian presidential election, 2005: Mesić, running as an independent, and Jadranka Kosor of the HDZ qualified for the second round.
2005	16 January	Croatian presidential election, 2005: Mesić was reelected with 66% of the vote.
2007	25 November	Croatian parliamentary election, 2007: The HDZ maintained its plurality in the Sabor.
2007		Sanader was again confirmed Prime Minister, with the HSS and HSLS now supporting his candidacy.
2009	1 April	Croatia joins NATO
	1 July	Sanader resigned. Deputy Prime Minister Kosor became Prime Minister.
	3 July	2009 flu pandemic in Croatia. First case confirmed with its origin from Australia. 526 people were infected and 22 people died from the Swine Flu.
	27 December	Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010: Ivo Josipović of the SDP and the independent Milan Bandić qualified for the second round.
2010	10 January	Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010: Josipović won with 60% of the vote.
2011	4 December	Croatian parliamentary election, 2011: The SDP won a plurality of seats in the Sabor.
2013	1 July	Croatia becomes the 28th member state of the European Union.
2015	11 January	2014–15 Croatian presidential election: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was voted to be the president of Croatia with 50,74% of the vote.,^[36] becoming Croatia's first female president.^[37]^{[Note 1]}
2015	8 November	Croatian parliamentary election, 2015: The Patriotic Coalition won a plurality of seats in the Sabor, with Croatia is Growing coalition coming second and MOST third.
2019-20	22 December – 5 January	2019–20 Croatian presidential election was held. Zoran Milanović (SDP) wins with over 52% popular vote against Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (HDZ)
2020	25 February-Present	2020 coronavirus outbreak in Croatia. Currently there over 210 cases of COVID-19 confirmed.
2020	22 March	2020 Zagreb earthquake. At 6:24 AM, an 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Zagreb and killed 1 teenager from the falling bricks. Its shock traveled few hundred kilometers.
2020	29 December	An earthquake hit near village of Petrinja at 12:19 PM with magnitude 6.2M_L killing 7 people.
2021		GDP growth in Croatia increased by hitting record high 10.4% after contracting 8.1% in 2020
2022	12 July	European Union formally approved Croatia to become 20th Eurozone member by start of 2023
2022	5 September 2022-31 December 2023	Croatia needs to show prices in both kunas and euros
2022	1–31 December	Euro packages available to buy in Financial agencies and Hrvatska pošta d.d
2023	1 January	Croatia is going to officially join Eurozone as 20th member and Schengen area as 20th member
2023	1–14 January	Dual kuna/euro circulation will be in effect

Map	Date	Name	Capital
	7th century	Byzantine Empire	Constantinople
	7th century-925	Duchy of Croatia	No permanent capital
	925-1102	Kingdom of Croatia	No permanent capital
	1102-1526	Kingdom of Croatia and Dalmatia. (Croatia in union with Hungary)	No permanent capital
(Shown in Red)	1526-1868	Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)	No permanent capital
(Shown in Red)	1868-1918	Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia	Zagreb
	29 October 1918 – 1 December 1918	State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs	Zagreb
	1918-1929	Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs	Belgrade
	1929-1941	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	Belgrade
	1941-1945	Independent State of Croatia	Zagreb
	1945-1963	Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia	Belgrade
	1963-1991	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Belgrade
	1991-Now	Republic of Croatia	Zagreb