ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : History of Albania </title> <META name="keywords" keyword=""> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> History of Albania <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xalbania.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xalbania.html"> <img src = "../banners/banalbania.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on June 7th 2005</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Albania </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1204 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Establishment of the Despotate of Epirus, capital Ioannina </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1272 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Neapolitan conquest of Durres; establishment of Kingdom of Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1345 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Berati conquered by the Serbs </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1355 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> After death of Stefan Dusan, Ruler of Serbia, Albania under local rulers </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1396 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Shkoder conquered by Venice </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1443-1467 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Rule of Prince George Castriota alias Skanderbeg in N. Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1474 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Giovanni Castriota sold his rights in Albania to Venice </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1479 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Shkoder, most of Albania submitted to Ottoman rule </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1501 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Venice evacuated Durres (Durazzo) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1614 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Tirana founded by Sulejmen Pashe Bargjini </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1687-1690 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Rebellion of Catholic Albanians against Ottoman rule </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1757-1831 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Pashalik of Shkoder de facto autonomous </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1788-1822 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Pashalik of Ioannina (Janina) de facto autonomous </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1797-1803 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Suliot Rebellion against Ali Pasha (of Ioannina) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1821-1822 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Ottoman expedition against Ioannina </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1832 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Massacre of Monastir; destruction of citadels of Albanian local beys </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1835 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Ottoman Albania divided in Vilayets of Ioannina and Rumelia </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1839 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Begin of Tanzimat Reform </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1843 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Rebellion </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1844 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Veqilharxhi developed Albanian Alphabet </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1847 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Rebellion </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1850 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Cultural Association founded, in Bucharest </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1865 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Ottoman Albania divided in Vilayets of Shkoder, Ioannna, Monastir and Kosovo </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1877 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Committee founded in Istanbul </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1878 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Foundation of Albanian League (League of Prizren) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1878-1881 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Rebellion </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1897/1902 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian language books forbidden </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1908 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian intellectuals chose to write Albanian in Latin alphabet </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1910-1911 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Rebellion </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1913 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Following the First Balkan War, the European Powers pressured Serbia, Montenegro to give up their conquests in Albania; established Kingdom of Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1914 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Greece occupied, annexed Southern Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1914-1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Durres capital of Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1916 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Durres under Serbian occupation </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Nat'l Assembly rejected partition (as discussed by Paris Peace Conference), established Republic </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Tirane chosen as capital </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Italians evacuated Vlore after Albanian siege </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1921 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Yugoslav invasion; League of Nations sent Commission </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1922 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Orthodox Church granted autokephalous status </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1923 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albanian Muslims abolished polygamy </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1924 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Civil War following election </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1925 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Graeco-Albanian border treaty; Southern Albania returned </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1925 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> President Zogu leant on Italian support against Yugoslav claims </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1926 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Rebellion in Northern Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1928 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albania transformed into a monarchy </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1939 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Italian invasion, occupation of Albania </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1940 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Italian army invaded Greece, from Albanian territory </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1943 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Following the Italian surrender, German occupation </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1944 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> German withdrawal; Communist partisans under Enver Hoxha took over </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1946 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Non-Communists expelled from government </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1948 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Friction in Albanian-Yugoslav relations, begin of Soviet aid </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1950 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Coup by right-wing exiles, supported by Britain, US, failed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1955 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albania founding member of Wasraw Pact </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1961 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albania broke with USSR; became ally of PR China </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1967 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albania declared an Atheist state </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1968 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Albania withdrew from Warsaw Pact </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1978 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Strain in Albanian-Chinese relations; end of Chinese aid </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1985 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Enver Hoxha </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Economic reforms announced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1990 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Opposition parties founded; 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