Timeline of Belgrade - Definition and Overview

Timeline of Belgrade:

• 7th millennium BC - First known neolithic settlement in the territory of Belgrade.
• end of 1st century - The Romans colonize Singidunum.
• 91 - Roman military camp of Domitian's IV Flavia Felix legion is located in the city.
• 441 - The Huns destroy the city.
• after 450 - Sarmatians are holding Singidunum.
• around 470 - The Ostrogoths expel the Sarmatians.
• 488 - The Gepids conquer Singidunum.
• 504 - The Goths capture it again.
• 510 - A peace treaty handed over the city to the Byzantine Empire.
• 535 - Byzantine emperor Justinian I rebuilds Singidunum.
• 584 - The Avars conquer and sack it.
• 592 - Byzantine Empire regains the city.
• 7th century - The Avars destroy it again.
• around 630 - The Slavs conquer Singidunum.
• 827 - The Bulgarians control the fortress.
• 878 - First known written record of the Slavic name "Beograd".
• 896 - Army of Hungarians attack Belgrade.
• 971 - Byzantine Empire conquers Belgrade
• after 976 - The city is taken by Samuil of Bulgaria.
• 1018 - Emperor Basil II regains Belgrade for the Byzantine Empire.
• between 1018 and 1072 - ?
• 1072 - Belgrade was retaken by Byzantine Empire.
• 1096 - The city was destroyed by Hungarians, but the Byzantine Empire remained in control of it.
• 1096-1189 - The Crusaders are passing through Belgrade.
• 1127 - Hungarian king Stefan II destroys Belgrade and used the obtained stones to build a fortress in Zemun.
• 1154 - Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus destroys Zemun and takes the stones back to rebuild Belgrade
• 1182 - Hungary attack and sacked the city.
• 1185 - Byzantine Empire regained it by diplomacy.
• 1230 - Belgrade belongs to Bulgaria.
• 1232 - The city become part of Hungary.
• 1284 - The Serbian king Stefan Dragutin take Belgrade from Hungary; this is the first time that Belgrade comes under Serbian rule.
• 1316 - Stefan Milutin takes Belgrade from his brother by force.
• 1319 - The Hungarians deprive King Milutin of the city.
• 1382 - The Horvat brothers capture Belgrade.
• 1386 - Hungary regains it.
• 1403 - Stefan Lazarević establish Belgrade as the capital of the Serbia.
• 1427 - The Hungarians retake Belgrade from Djuradj Branković.
• 1440 - The Ottoman Empire attacks Belgrade. The attack fails but the city is heavily damaged.
• 1456 - Sultan Mehmed II besieges Belgrade but fails to capture it.
• 1521 - Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquers Belgrade.
• 1688 - Duke Maximilian of Bavaria captures the city.
• 1690 - The Ottomans capture Belgrade anew.
• 1717 - Prince Eugene of Savoy captures it.
• 1723-1736 - Construction of the Kalemegdan fortress by Nikola Doksat de Mores.
• 1739 - The Treaty of Belgrade between Austria and the Ottomans returns Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
• 1789 - Marshal Gideon Ernst Laudon captures the city
• 1791 - The Peace of Svishtov returns Belgrade to the Ottomans.
• 1806 - Karadjordje captures Belgrade and makes it the capital of Serbia.
• 1808 - First high school is established.
• 1813 - The Ottomans reconquer the city.
• 1815 - Milos Obrenović started the Second Serbian Uprising and conquered Belgrade.
• 1830 - Mahmud II proclaimed charter on Serbian autonomy.
• 1831 - First printing works established.
• 1835 - The first newspaper ("Novine srbske" - Serbian newspaper) published.
• 1840 - The first post office in Belgrade.
• 1841 - Belgrade became the capital of the Princedom of Serbia under Mihailo Obrenović.
• 1844 - The National Museum established.
• 1855 - First telegraph line in Serbia, Belgrade - Aleksinac, established.
• 1862 - After the conflict at Cukur-cesma, Belgrade was bombarded from the Kalemegdan fortress.
• 1867 - In Kalemegdan, the Ottoman commander of the fortress Ali Riza Pasha handed over the keys of Belgrade to Knez Mihailo.
• 1878 - The Berlin Congress recognized the independence of Serbia in the Treaty of Berlin.
• 1882 - Belgrade is the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia.
• 1883 - The first telephone lines in Belgrade
• 1884 - Railway stations and a railway bridge over Sava is constructed (and still in use).
• 1892 - The first modern water supply.
• 1893 - Electrification of the city.
• 1894 - The first electric tramway.
• 1903 - In a coup d'etat in May, King Aleksandar Obrenović is assassinated, and King Petar I Karadjordjević ascends the throne of Serbia.
• 1914 - Austrians bombard and capture Belgrade.
• 1914 - The Serbs recapture it.
• 1915 - German and Austrian troops led by August von Mackensen captured Belgrade.
• 1918 - The Serbs, with help of allies, recapture it.
• 1918 - Belgrade becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
• 1923 - Paris - Budapest air line extended to Belgrade.
• January 6th 1926 - King Aleksandar Karadjordjević dissolved the National Assembly and started his dictatorship.
• 1927 - Belgrade Airport opened.
• 1929 - Radio Belgrade started broadcasting.
• 1935 - The first bridge over the Danube, the Pancevacki most (Bridge of Pancevo) is built.
• 1937 - Belgrade Fair opened.
• March 27th 1941 - Huge protests against joining the Axis.
• April 6th 1941 - Nazi Germany bombs Belgrade.
• April 12th 1941 - Nazi Germany occupies Belgrade.
• 1944 - American and other Allies bomb Belgrade.
• October 20th 1944 - Belgrade liberated by the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia and Soviet Red Army; new communist government was arresting and liquidating political opponents and mobilized Belgrade youth.
• November 29th 1945 - The Constitutional Assembly proclaimed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.
• Later in 1945 - Monarchy was abolished and Josip Broz Tito started to rule officially.
• 1946 - Industries nationalised.
• 1948 - Large number of regime opponents arrested and sentenced to hard labour.
• 1950 - Government introduced selfmanagement of the industry by the employees.
• 1958 - TV Belgrade started broadcasting.
• 1961 - The first Conference of Non-aligned Countries held in Belgrade.
• 1967 - The first BITEF held.
• 1968 - Students' protests in Belgrade.
• 1969 - Beogradjanka, one of the tallests buildings in the city built.
• 1971 - E75 highway through Belgrade and Gazela (Gaselle) bridge built.
• 1971 - The first FEST held.
• 1974 - New Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopted.
• 1977-1978 - The Conference on European Security and Cooperation held in Belgrade.
• 1979 - Annual meetings of the World Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund held in Belgrade.
• 1980 - 21st General Assembyl of UNESCO held in Belgrade.
• 1983 - Annual Conference of UNCTAD held in Belgrade.
• 1988 - First meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of the Balkan States.
• March 9th 1991 - Around 100.000 people demonstrate against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Police and army tanks on the streets of Belgrade.
• 1992 - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia proclaimed.
• May 30th 1992 - The UN Security Council imposed economic embargo on Yugoslavia.
• 1993 - The highest hyperinflation in the history struck Belgrade, bringing many citizens to the limits of existence.
• 1994 - The end of the hyperinflation.
• 1995 - Underground railway station "Vukov spomenik" opened. Similar to the RER of Paris, this is to become thefirst station of Belgrade metro.
• 1996 - Mass protests after cancelling of local elections.
• 1997 - First non-communist government since 1944.
• 1999 - Belgrade was bombed by NATO.
• October 5 2000 - Slobodan Milosevic removed from power after huge protests in Belgrade.
• 2003 - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changed into Serbia and Montenegro.
• January 10 2005 - The organization of the 2009 Summer Universiade is awarded to Belgrade.