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1920
December
24
Bloody Christmas in Fiume
On Christmas Eve 1920 the Italian army attacked D'Annunzio's legionaries, who rejected the Treaty of Rapallo. After five days of fighting he gave up power.
1921
April
24
Elections in the Free State of Fiume
On 24 April 1921 Fiume elected a Constituent Assembly. Riccardo Zanella's autonomists, opponents of annexation, won, and the fascists burned the ballot boxes.
1924
March
16
Italy annexes Fiume
On 16 March 1924 King Victor Emmanuel III formally proclaimed Fiume's union with Italy in the city. Mussolini had forced Yugoslavia to partition the Free State.
1934
February
09
The Balkan Pact
On 9 February 1934 in Athens Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania and Turkey guaranteed each other’s Balkan borders. Bulgaria and Albania stayed out of the Entente.
October
09
The Marseille assassination
On 9 October 1934 in Marseille a Macedonian gunman working with the Ustaše shot King Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Foreign Minister Louis Barthou also died.
1941
March
25
Yugoslavia joins the Tripartite Pact
On 25 March 1941 in Vienna, Premier Cvetković signed Yugoslavia’s accession to the Tripartite Pact. Secret notes spared it troop transit and military aid.
27
Key event
The Yugoslav coup d’état
On 27 March 1941 air force officers in Belgrade ousted Prince Paul’s regency and the government that signed the pact. Hitler resolved to destroy Yugoslavia.
April
03
The suicide of Pál Teleki
On the night of 2–3 April 1941 Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki shot himself in Budapest as his country joined Germany against friendly Yugoslavia.
06
Key event
Germany attacks Yugoslavia
On 6 April 1941 Germany invaded Yugoslavia without declaring war and the Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade. The partly mobilised army quickly fell apart.
10
The Independent State of Croatia proclaimed
On 10 April 1941 Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia in Zagreb for Ante Pavelić. Power passed to the Ustaše, allies of the Axis.
17
Yugoslavia capitulates
On 17 April 1941 the unconditional surrender of the Yugoslav army was signed in Belgrade. The King and government had fled to Greece to fight on in exile.
May
13
Mihailović on Ravna Gora
On 13 May 1941 Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović and a few soldiers who rejected the capitulation reached Ravna Gora in Serbia – the birth of the Chetniks.
July
08
The partition of Yugoslavia
On 8 July 1941 Germany and Italy signed a treaty in Berlin fixing their border in the Slovene lands, one of the last acts of the Axis partition of Yugoslavia.
13
The uprising in Montenegro
On 13 July 1941, the day after Italy proclaimed a puppet Kingdom of Montenegro, an uprising broke out there. Within days it had engulfed most of the country.
September
01
The Milan Nedić government
On 1 September 1941 General Milan Nedić broadcast as premier of the Government of National Salvation, set up by the Germans in occupied Serbia on 29 August.
November
02
The split between the Partisans and the Chetniks
On 2 November 1941 Mihailović’s Chetniks attacked Tito’s Partisans at Užice. The feud between Serbia’s two resistance movements became open civil war.
1943
May
15
Case Black
On 15 May 1943 Germany and its allies launched Case Black, the fifth offensive against Tito's Partisans in Montenegro, also aimed at the Chetniks.
November
29
The second session of AVNOJ at Jajce
On 29 November 1943 at Jajce in Bosnia the partisan council AVNOJ declared itself Yugoslavia's supreme authority, set up Tito's government and barred the king.
December
03
Operation Kugelblitz
In December 1943 the Germans tried to encircle and destroy two of Tito's partisan corps in eastern Bosnia and the Sandžak, inflicting heavy losses but failing.
04
Tito proclaims a provisional government
In early December 1943 the world learned of Tito's government set up at Jajce. The royal government protested, while the British turned away from Mihailović.
1944
March
19
Yugoslav partisans near Trieste
In spring 1944 Slovene partisans fought on the Karst near Trieste, but an attack on the city on 19 March 1944 is unconfirmed; the Germans held it until 1945.
October
01
The Red Army in Yugoslavia
At the turn of September and October 1944 the Red Army crossed the Danube and entered eastern Serbia, as Tito had agreed beforehand with Stalin.
20
Key event
The liberation of Belgrade
On 20 October 1944, after a week of street fighting, the Red Army and Tito's Partisans drove the Germans from Belgrade, free after 3.5 years of occupation.
23
The liberation of Novi Sad
On 23 October 1944 Yugoslav Partisans, followed by Red Army soldiers, entered Novi Sad, the capital of Bačka, which Hungary had seized in 1941.
1945
May
01
Tito in Trieste
On 1 May 1945 the Yugoslav 4th Army and IX Corps entered Trieste, followed on 2 May by New Zealanders. Forty days of Yugoslav rule brought arrests and killings.
25
The last battles in Yugoslavia
On 25 May 1945 the Yugoslav Army broke Ustaše resistance at Odžak. Ten days earlier the NDH forces' retreat had ended at Bleiburg; prisoners were murdered.