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Albania


1997 Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies

1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania

1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania

1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years

1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania

1985 Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76

1981 Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide

1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR

1976 Albania constitution goes into effect

1970 Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations

1968 Albania leaves Warsaw pact

1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact

1967 Cultural Revolution in Albania

1961 U.S.S.R. and Albania break diplomatic relations

1961 Zog I, Ahmed Zogu, King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65

1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"

1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania

1949 U.N. International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages

1946 2 British ships sink near Albania

1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator

1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania

1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)

1944 Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87

1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists

1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania

1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania

1940 Italy annexes Albania

1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania

1939 King Zog I of Albania, flees

1939 Italy invades Albania

1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary

1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king

1927 Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist, Albania Defiant

1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes

1926 Italian and Albania sign peace treaty

1925 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu

1924 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)

1915 Serbian leader flees to Albania

1915 Dhimiter Shuteriqi, Albania, writer, Alirimtaret The liberator

1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania

1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania

1913 Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave

1913 Serbian troops march into Albania

1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied

1913 New country of Albania, forms

1912 Albania declares it's Indepenence from Turkey

1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey

1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania

1908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania, 1944-85

1895 King Zog I, of Albania, 1928-1939

1856 Harry A. P. Eyres, British diplomat, Constantinople, Albania

1443 George Kastriotis [Skanderberg] proclaims Albania principality


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