Wednesday, December 9, 2020

ЦДПЈИЕ: Нации и држави во Југоисточна Европа

 TECAHING MODERN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN HISTORY

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Workbook 2

NATIONS AND STATES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE

 

Chronology

 

1762 – Paisiy Hilendarski writes his Slav-Bulgarian Hisotry, through which he appeals for national self-awareness

1768-1774 – Russian-Ottoman war; Greek revolt encouraged by Russia (1770-74)

1797 – Draft constitution of the “Hellenic Republic” written by Rigas Velestinis. French occupation of Venice; division of Venetian territories between France and the Habsburgs through the treaty of Campo Formio: the Habsburgs occupy Dalmatia, while France acquires the Ionian Islands (French rule till 1799)

1800-1807 – ‘The Ionian Republic’, vassal state of the Ottoman Empire; British occupation in 1807, and then a British protectorate until 1864

1804-1813 – First Serbian Revolt, led by Karadjordje; suppressed by the Ottomans

1805-1813 – Large parts of Dalmatia, Croatia and Slovenia under the rule of Napoleon (Illyrian provinces); after Napoleon’s defeat, these territories are restored as Austrian provinces

1806-1812 – Russian-Ottoman war; through the peace treaty of Bucharest, eastern Moldavia (Bessarabia) is annexed by Russia

1814 – Creation in Odessa of the secret society ‘Filiki Etairia’ (Friendly Society), with the goal of liberating Greece from the Ottomans

1815 – Second Serbian Revolt, led by Milosh Obrenovich; in December 1815 the sultan recognizes Milosh as supreme knez of the Serbs in the Belgrade pachalik

1821 – Wallachian revolution led by Tudor Vladimirescu; Greek revolution starting with the invasion of Moldavia by a small Greek army led by Alexandros Ypsilanti, followed by a rebellion spreading from the Peloponnese to other areas

1822 – The Greek National Assembly at Epidaurus proclaims the Hellenic Republic and votes on the first Greek constitution

1826 – Sultan Mahmud II liquidates the janissaries, and clears the way for reforms in the Ottoman Empire

1827 – Britain, France and Russia openly support the Greeks; an allied fleet defeats the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet at Navarino

1828-1829 – Russian-Ottoman war; the Russians occupy Moldavia and Wallachia

1829 – Peace treaty at Adrianople (Edirne); Serbia is recognized as vassal principality, with Milosh Obrenovich as prince; Wallachia and Moldavia remain under Ottoman suzerainty, but are also placed under Russian protection

1830 – London Protocol: Greece is declared an independent monarchy, under the joint guarantee of Britain, France and Russia

1831-1832 – The Organic Revolutions, adopted in Wallachia an Moldavia under Russian supervision; ‘conservative modernization’, preserves the power of the princes and of the boyars

1832 – The Convention of London, establishes the boundaries of the Greek state and declares that Otto, second son of Ludwig I of Bavaria, should become hereditary king of Greece

1834 – Athens replaces Nafplion as capital city of Greece

1835 – Serbian Constitution (sanctioned by the sultan in 1838); limits the power of the prince in favor of an elected senate

1837 – Foundation of the University of Athens and the Archeological Society

1839 – Hatt-i-Sherif of Gulhane; official start of the Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire

1841 – Foundation of the National Bank of Greece

1843-1844 – Period of intense nationalistic movements in the Austrian Empire, with special emphasis on the struggle to obtain official status for the national languages; within the framework, the Croatian National revival (Illyrian Movement) struggles for the Croatian language and for autonomous Croatia in the Austrian Empire, while in Transilvania the Romanians clash with the Hungarians on national grounds

1848-1849 – Revolutions throughout Europe, including the Austrian Empire and the Romanian Principalities; the revolutionaries combine political, social and national demands; national divisions generate conflicts between Hungarian, Croat and Romanian revolutionaries; the revolutors are heavily suppressed by the Ottomans and the Austrians who are supported by Russia

1850 – Autocephaly of the Greek Church (already declared in 1833), is granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

1852 – Danilo I Petrovich (1851-1860) transforms Montenegro from a bishopric to a secular principality and begins a program of modernization

1853-1856 – Crimean War; Russia defeated by the combined forces of the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and Sardinia; through the peace treaty of Paris, Moldavia Walachia and Serbia are placed under the collective protection of the Great Powers

1858 – Convention of Paris;  the Great Powers recognize Moldavia and Wallachia as separate states, but under the common label ‘United Principalities’

1859 – Double election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza as prince of Moldavia and Wallachia; gradual institutional unification of the two Principalities until 1862; establishment of the modern Romanian state

1860 – Foundation of the University of Jashi (followed in 1864 by the University of Bucharest)

1862 – A revolution forces Otto I to leave Greece

1863 – The Danish prince George of Holstein-Sondeburg-Gluchsburg is elected to become king George I (1863-1913) in Greece; a new constitution (1864) makes the people subjects of the Crown and the sovereign state; the Ionian Islands ceded to Greece by Great Britain. Massive secularization of church properties in Romania; conflict with the Patriarchate of Constantinople

1866 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza is forced to abdicate; the German prince Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen becomes prince of Romania (1866-1914, king from 1881); the Constitution of 1866 establishes the constitutional monarchy and guarantees cicil rights and liberties, but establishes a restrictive census (property) based voting system

1867 – Dualistic agreement: establishment of Austria-Hungary; Slovenia and the Bukovina remain parts of Austria, while Transylvania and Croatia are integrated into the kingdom of Hungary: through a special agreement (1868), Croatia keeps a certain degree of autonomy within Hungary: nevertheless, Hungarian centralism and assimilation policies generate widespread dissatisfaction among the Romanians and Croats

1866-1869, 1889 – Cretan revolts demanding Ottoman reforms to be respected, but he ultimate goal being union with Greece

1869 – The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, headed by Lyuben Karavelov is established in Romania

1870 – Establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate through an Ottoman decree; the Bulgarians obtain an ecclesiastical organization separate from the Patriarchate in Constantinople, although not yet a separate state

1872 – Anti-nationalistic decision of the senior Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria and Antioch which condemns the definition of ecclesiastical jurisdiction according to ethnicity as schismatic

1875 – Anti-Ottoman uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina; beginning of the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878

1876 – April Uprising of the Bulgarians, fiercely suppressed by the Ottomans; Serbia and Montenegro declare war on the Ottoman Empire, but are defeated: mounting international pressure and internal turbulence lead the Ottoman authorities to issue the first Ottoman Constitution, which grants full and equal rights to all Ottoman subjects: but also declares the empire to be ‘an indivisible one’

1877 – The Central Committee for the Defence of the rights of the Albanian People is created in Istanbul. Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire, and invades Bulgaria; Romania proclaims itself independent and joins the Russians; after remarkable resistance, the Ottoman army is defeated at Plevna

1878 – Peace treaty of San Stefano (March 3); after intervention by Great Britain and Austria-Hungary, the congress of Berlin concludes with a new peace treaty (July 1); Romania, Serbia and Montenegro are recognized as independent states: Bulgaria is divided into the vassal principality of Bulgaria and the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia; Romania receives Dobrudja in exchange for Southern Bessarabia, surrendered to Russia; Serbia and Montenegro also receive modest territorial increases; Bosnia-Herzegovina is placed under Austrian-Hungarian administration: through a separate Ottoman-British convention, Cyprus is put under British rule remaining under Ottoman suzerainty (June 4, 1878). Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) suspends the Constitution of December 1876, dissolves the Parliament, and rules autocratically until 1908. Albanian League of Prizren formulates the national programme

1879 – The Turnovo Constitution in Bulgaria establishes a constitutional monarchy; first prince: Alexander of Batenberg (1879-1886)

1880 – Foundation of the National Bank of Romania

1881 – Thessaly and the Arta region of Epirus ceded to Greece by the Ottoman Empire, according to Berlin treaty

1885 – Union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgarian Principality; the attempt by Serbia to obtain compensation is defeated in a Serbian-Bulgarian war (1885-1886)

1886 – Political crisis in Bulgaria; prince Alexander of Batenberg abdicates; Russia breaks off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria

1887 – The Bulgarians elect Ferdinand of Saxa-Coburg-Gotha as prince (1887-1918)

1893 – Creation of the IMRO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization)

1896 – First international Olympic Games in Athens

1897 – Greek-Turkish War; Greece is fdefeated

1989 – Crete becomes a vassal, semi-autonomous state; the Greek prince George is named governor

1903 – Coup in Serbia; king Alexander I Obrenovich and his family are killed; Peter I Karadjordjevich (1903-1921) becomes king; increasing nationalistic orientation of Serbian policy. Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia defeated by Ottomans

1907 – Serious peasant rebellion in Romania

1908 – Young Turk revolution in Ottoman Empire; the Constitution of 1878 is restored and elections are organized for the Ottoman Parliament; Bulgaria proclaims itself independent; Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina (‘Bosnian crisis’ with Serbia and Russia)

1911-1912 – Italian-Ottoman War; Italy conquers the Dodecanese Islands (as well as Lybia)

1912 – Albanian uprising; armed revolt organized by Ismail Qemal and Luigi Gurakuqi

1912-1913 – Balkan Wars; the Ottoman Empire loses most of its European territories to Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro; Albania is proclaimed independent (1912, November 28); Macedonia is divided between  Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece; Southern Dobrudja is annexed by Romania from Bulgaria

1914 – Prince William of Wied accepts the throne as king of Albania offered by the Great Powers

1914-1918 – World War I…

 

(Thessaloniki 2005; Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe www.cdsee.org)

 

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