Timeline of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

June 20: Representative PuniÃÂ¡a RaÃÂiÃÂ of the People's Radical Party shot ÃÂuro BasariÃÂek, Pavle RadiÃÂ, Ivan Pernar, Ivan GranÃÂa and Croatian Peasant Party leader Stjepan RadiÃÂ in the National Assembly. BasariÃÂek and Pavle RadiÃÂ died at the scene, Pernar and GranÃÂa were only wounded, and Stjepan RadiÃÂ was mortally wounded.
July 28: Anton KoroÃÂ¡ec of the Slovene People's Party became the first non-Serb prime minister of the kingdom.
August 1: National Assembly reconvened, with representatives of the Peasant-Democrat Coalition boycotting it.
August 8: Stjepan RadiÃÂ died from wounds suffered in the attack in the assembly chambers.
August 12: Funeral of Stjepan RadiÃÂ.
August 13: Vladko MaÃÂek elected president of Croatian Peasant Party.

January 6: King Alexander abolished the Constitution, prorogued the National Assembly and introduced a personal dictatorship (6 January Dictatorship)
January 7: General Petar ÃÂ½ivkoviÃÂ became prime minister, heading the regime's Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy.
January 11: State Court for the Protection of the State was established in Belgrade. Croatian activist Branimir JeliÃÂ leaves the country for Austria.
April 20: The Sophia Declaration was released by the UstaÃÂ¡a - Croatian Revolutionary Movement and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization calling for the independence of Croatia and Macedonia.
April 25: ÃÂuro ÃÂakoviÃÂ, a prominent Trade unions' activist in Yugoslavia and the First secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was murdered by Yugoslav policemen at the Yugoslav-Austrian boundary in the present-day Slovenia, after four days of torturing and questioning in Zagreb police station.
October 3: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was renamed to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The state was also divided into new administrative divisions called banovine (singular banovina).
December 22: Vladko MaÃÂek arrested.

January 25: August KoÃÂ¡utiÃÂ and Juraj KrnjeviÃÂ of the Croatian Peasant Party delivered a memorandum to the League of Nations outlining the struggles of the Croats in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
June 14: Vladko MaÃÂek acquitted and released.

February 18: Writer Milan ÃÂ ufflay is murdered by Yugoslav nationalists in Zagreb.
September 3: A new 1931 Yugoslav Constitution was put in place to replace the one from 1921 (abolished in 1929).
November 8: Elections held in which only one electoral list, headed by General ÃÂ½ivkoviÃÂ is on the ballot.

June 7: Yugoslav nationalists attempt to assassinate writer Mile Budak.
September 6: Members of the UstaÃÂ¡a - Croatian Revolutionary Movement attempted to launch a revolution on Velebit.
November 7: Peasant-Democrat Coalition released the Zagreb Points, which outlined the coalition's plan for a return to parliamentary democracy.

Svetozar PribiÃÂeviÃÂ published Diktatura kralja Aleksandra (The Dictatorship of King Alexander) in exile in Prague.
January: Sarajevo Points published by the Yugoslav Muslim Organization. The party's leader Mehmed Spaho was sentenced to twenty days in jail because of the document.
January 31: Vladko MaÃÂek arrested in relation with the Zagreb Points.
April 29: Vladko MaÃÂek sentenced to three years in jail.
July 14: Josip Predavec, vice-president of the Croatian Peasant Party, was killed in Dugo Selo.

February 9: Balkan Pact was signed by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania and Turkey.
October 9: King Alexander was killed in Marseille by Vlado Chernozemski of the IMRO in cooperation with Croatian UstaÃÂ¡e.
December 22: Vladko MaÃÂek released from jail.

April 18: Yugoslavia unconditionally surrenders to Nazi Germany and is partoinated by the Axis powers.
July 7: In Bela Crkva, a group of partisans call for a fight against Nazi occupation.
August 25: The Chetniks agree to fight against Nazi forces
December 9th: Operation Mihailovic takes place, ending the resistance against Nazi Occupation.

November 29: Peter II is deposed, The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is founded