Alexander I of Serbia

1869

In May 1894 King Alexander arbitrarily abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 1869.

1876

Alexander I (Александар Обреновић|Aleksandar Obrenović; 14 August 187629 May 1903) reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević. ==Accession== Alexander was born on 14 August 1876 to King Milan and Queen Natalie of Serbia.

1888

In May 1894 King Alexander arbitrarily abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 1869.

1889

Alexander I (Александар Обреновић|Aleksandar Obrenović; 14 August 187629 May 1903) reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević. ==Accession== Alexander was born on 14 August 1876 to King Milan and Queen Natalie of Serbia.

He belonged to the Obrenović dynasty. In 1889, King Milan unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

Prince Lazar, 28 June 1889 * Founder of the Order of Miloš the Great, 1898 Grand Cross of the Order of St.

1891

Stephen, 1891 * Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1894 * Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1894 Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, 25 November 1896 Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 5 August 1893 Knight of the Order of St.

1893

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, arbitrarily proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

Stephen, 1891 * Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1894 * Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1894 Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, 25 November 1896 Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 5 August 1893 Knight of the Order of St.

1894

In May 1894 King Alexander arbitrarily abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 1869.

His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War (1897) was one of strict neutrality. In 1894 the young King brought his father, Milan, back to Serbia and, in 1898, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Serbian army.

Stephen, 1891 * Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1894 * Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1894 Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, 25 November 1896 Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 5 August 1893 Knight of the Order of St.

1896

Stephen, 1891 * Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1894 * Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1894 Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, 25 November 1896 Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 5 August 1893 Knight of the Order of St.

1897

Alexander had met Draga in 1897 when she was serving as a maid of honor to his mother.

1898

His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War (1897) was one of strict neutrality. In 1894 the young King brought his father, Milan, back to Serbia and, in 1898, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Serbian army.

Prince Lazar, 28 June 1889 * Founder of the Order of Miloš the Great, 1898 Grand Cross of the Order of St.

1900

During that time, Milan was regarded as the de facto ruler of the country. ==Marriage== In the summer of 1900, King Alexander suddenly announced his engagement to Draga Mašin, a disreputable widow of an obscure engineer.

The marriage duly took place in August 1900.

1901

Even so, the unpopularity of the union weakened the King's position in the eyes of the army and of the country at large. ==Politics and the constitution== King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative in 1901, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers (skupština and senate).

1903

Alexander I (Александар Обреновић|Aleksandar Obrenović; 14 August 187629 May 1903) reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević. ==Accession== Alexander was born on 14 August 1876 to King Milan and Queen Natalie of Serbia.

In March 1903 the King suspended the constitution for half an hour, time enough to publish the decrees dismissing and replacing the old senators and councillors of state.

The room contained an entrance to a secret passage leading out of the palace, but the entrance was inaccessible due to the placement of the queen's wardrobe over it after the wedding.) The conspirators searched the palace and eventually discovered the royal couple and murdered them in the early morning of June 11, 1903.




All text is taken from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .

Page generated on 2021-08-05