History of Macedonia. Macedonia chronology

History of Macedonia

Chronology of Macedonia

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Chronology of Macedonia

Ancient Macedonia
3000 BC	The town of Ohrid was established on the Ohrid Lake, which is in present day a part of Macedonia.
400-300 BC	The Illyrian Kingdom, part of which was present day Macedonia, reached its peak.
359-336 BC	Philip II ruled the Kingdom of Macedonia and founded the Bulgarian town of Plovdiv.
358 BC	Phillip II defeated the Illyrians.
356 BC	Alexander the Great, son of Phillip and great conqueror, was born.
338 BC	Philip II conquered Greece and two years later was succeeded by his son, Alexander the Great. At the age of 26 Alexander had conquered the entire Persian Empire.
323 BC	Alexander died in Babylon at the age of 32.
199-150 BC	Macedonia was a province of the Roman Republic.

Medieval Macedonia under Byzantine and Ottoman Rule
700-800 AD	The Slavs had already taken over the Thracians in the Balkan Region, including those of Macedonia.
886	Macedonian territory became part of the Byzantine Empire.
9th-14th Century	Macedonia was a territory of the Byzantine Empire.
14th-19th Century	Macedonia was considered a Bulgarian province under Ottoman Rule.
1335	The St Atanasia’s Orthodox Church in Macedonia was being built and was intended to be a sanctuary and last refuge of Christian Resistance against the Ottoman Empire.

Balkan and World Wars
1878	Bulgaria was liberated from Ottoman Rule but Macedonia could not be saved, thus the Macedonian Bulgarians started rebelling against the new Bulgarian Kingdom.
1895	Macedonian rebels killed Stephen Stambulov, ex-prime minister of the free Bulgaria.
1903	Turkish troops murdered around 50,000 Bulgarian Macedonians in an attempt to end the Macedonian uprising.
1908	Russia and Britain threatened action in Macedonia if peace was not reached soon.
1910	Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, Macedonia. She was later known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her charitable work.
1912	During the Balkan Wars different nationalities fought each other in Macedonia.
1912-1913	During the Balkan Wars the Kingdom of Greece 'saved' Macedonia from the rule of the Ottoman Empire by incorporating Macedonia.
1913	Greece and Serbia ended their mutual interest relationship with Bulgaria over a fight as to whose Macedonia should be. Thus the Second Balkan War begun. Bulgarians were viciously defeated.
1929	The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes legally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was made up of the regions of Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
1967	The Orthodox Macedonian Church freed itself from the guardianship of the Serbian Church.

Independence and Ethnic Conflicts
1992	Macedonia gained its independence from the former federation of Yugoslavia. Kiro Glogorov became Macedonia's first president. Skopje became capital of the 2-million-people country.
1992 April	The denar replaced the old Yugoslavian currency and thus Macedonia had its own money.
1993 July	300 American soldiers came in Macedonia as part of a UN peacekeeping project.
1993-1999	U.S. Army Peacekeeping Operations began in Bosnia and Macedonia. They costed extremely expensive.
1996	Macedonia established its stock-exchange market and started on the road to economy.
1998	NATO decided to help Macedonia to enforce its borders and defence. Macedonians agreed to provide a NATO base to get to Kosovo.
1999	Albania and Macedonia were in great trouble when thousands of refugees fled Kosovo and virtually invaded the countries after bombing on NATO's part. U.S. accused Milosevic of crimes against humanity.

Present Day Macedonia
2001	Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia are still at war, NATO sent additional troops and fighting continues.
2003	In Macedonia the EU begins its first military operation replacing NATO in the peacekeeping project.
2004	Greece protests angrily against a U.S. decision to recognise the former Yugoslav state on its border as Macedonia.
2005	The EU leaders agree that Macedonia should have a chance at entering the European Union. Membership negotiations begin.