Timeline of Belgrade
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 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 .
