Belgrade

Ereignisse (13)

• 1456

  11/9 — Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.

• 1521

  8/28 — The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.

• 1595

  4/27 — The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.

• 1739

  9/18 — The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.

• 1914

  12/15 — World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.

• 1944

  4/16 — World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.

• 1944

  10/20 — Die Rote Armee und die jugoslawischen Partisanen befreien Belgrad, die Hauptstadt Jugoslawiens

• 1961

  9/1 — The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.

• 1974

  8/30 — A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

• 1999

  5/7 — Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

• 1999

  8/19 — In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.

• 2000

  10/5 — Massenproteste in Belgrad führen zur Rücktrittserklärung des serbischen Starkenmanns Slobodan Milošević. Diese Proteste werden oft als Bulldozer-Revolution bezeichnet.

• 2003

  3/12 — Zoran Đinđić, Premierminister von Serbien, wird in Belgrad ermordet.