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Timeline / 400 to 1700 /

Date Country | Description

553 A.D. Croatia

Basilica of Euphrasius built in Piorec, one of the most important monuments in Croatia. It was built on the remains of an earlier three-naved basilica.

614 A.D. Croatia

Croats settle in the area between the and the and rivers.

679 A.D. Croatia

The first diplomatic agreement of the with the . They made an agreement with Agaton by which they agreed not to start wars against neighbouring Christian states.

732 A.D. Croatia

Edict of the Byzantine Emperor Leon III by which he excluded western Balkan lands, the entire Illyrics, from the authority of the Roman Pope and submitted them to the Byzantine patriarch.

791 A.D. Croatia

Croats establish the principalities of Primorska Hrvatska on the Adriatic Coast and Posavska Hrvatska in north Croatia.

820 A.D. Croatia

The Church of St Donat in , first dedicated to Holy Trinity, is built in the 9th century, a great example of Byzantine architecture and the largest circular church of the Carolingian era in Europe.

852 A.D. Croatia

Trpimir I issues a charter in in which he names himself the ‘Duke of Croats’ (Dux Chroatorum iuvatus munere divino) and his realm as the ‘Realm of the Croats’ (Regnum Chroatorum).

879 A.D. Croatia

Duke Branimir becomes Banus of Croatia and breaks up with . Pope John VIII gave his blessing to the duke and the whole Croatian people, as he informed Branimir in his letters.

925 A.D. Croatia

According to some, the Croatian kingdom was established and Duke became its first king. The first Church Synod is held in Split.

969 A.D. Croatia Date Country | Description

Crowning of the first Croatian king, Stjepan Držislav (969–97), a member of the Trpimirovi# Dynasty. The Byzantine Emperor Basil II gave him symbols of royal power.

1000 A.D. Croatia

The Venetians install Krešimir III (1000–30) as king of Croatia; he ruled with his brother Gojislav. They attempted to restore rule over the Dalmatian cities that were under Venetian control.

1032 A.D. Croatia

Croatian king Stjepan I (1030–58) focused on rebuilding Croatia’s military strength and in 1032 he sent his naval fleet to assist in its war against the .

1094 A.D. Croatia

The Hungarian King Ladislas establishes the Diocese.

1102 A.D. Croatia

Pacta conventa between Hungarian King Koloman and Croatia. Koloman Arpadovi# crowned as Croatian king in Biograd and the personal union established.

1134 A.D. Croatia

Issue of the Charter of Felicianus mentioning the founder of the Diocese, King Ladislas, the first bishop of Zagreb, Bishop Duh, and other clergy.

1186 A.D. Croatia

Zadar rebels against and allies with .

1205 A.D. Croatia

Dubrovnik recognises the authority of Venice, which will last until 1358. In that period was obliged to pay Venice annual tribute and to accept Venetians as its dukes and archbishops.

1242 A.D. Croatia

The Croatian–Hungarian King Bela IV grants the Golden Bull to Gradec, as a token of appreciation for the citizens who provided him shelter during the Tatarian invasion.

1288 A.D. Croatia

The Law of Vinodol is composed, one of the first juridical regulations in this part of Europe.

1358 A.D. Croatia Date Country | Description

The peace of Zadar seals the defeat of the Venetian Republic by Louis of Anjou, King of Hungary–Croatia, and marks the reunification of with the Croatian crown within a common kingdom.

1409 A.D. Croatia

Ladislas of Naples, Croat king and a claimant to the Hungarian throne as King Ladislav of Anjou, sells Dalmatia to the Venetians for 100,000 ducats. By 1420 Venice controlled all of Dalmatia except for Dubrovnik.

1433 A.D. Croatia

Turks occupy a large part of north Croatia.

1493 A.D. Croatia

Battle at Krbavsko Polje after which Ottoman armies overran most of Croatia and Islamisation followed, particularly in the so-called ‘Turkish Croatia’ between the and rivers.

1527 A.D. Croatia

Croatia forms a state union with . By a decision of the Croatian Assembly, the dynasty of Habsburg comes to the Croatian throne.

1537 A.D. Croatia

Defeat of the , the last southern fortress. Ottomans constitute the San#ak of Klis.

1538 A.D. Croatia

Founding of the Ottoman governing unit in Middle with the centre in Požega. For more than 40 years the governor was Hadži Mehmed-aga who supported Sulayman during the siege of Siget.

1556 A.D. Croatia

Nikola Zrinski defeats the Pasha of Budim near Bobocsa. The fall of Kostajnica and the arrival of Ottomans in Turopolje.

1565 A.D. Croatia

On the initiative of the Council of Trent the Bishop of Zagreb, Juraj Draškovi#, establishes the Zagreb Seminary (Seminarium Clericorum) to promote theology.

1566 A.D. Croatia

The siege of Siget. Nikola Šubi# Zrinski holds out against the army of the Sultan Sulayman I and falls during the last attack.

1599 A.D. Croatia Date Country | Description

Zagreb and a major part of Croatia are stricken by plague of epidemic proportions.

1606 A.D. Croatia

Arrival of Jesuits in Zagreb. In 1607 they established the Classical Gymnasium, the first gymnasium (high school) that still exists today. Arrival of the first pharmacist J. Gasparini in Zagreb.

1609 A.D. Croatia

King Matyas II approves the new Statute of the Zagreb Gradec.

1615 A.D. Croatia

Venice conquers Karlobag attacking Novi Vinodolski, the city of the Frankopans. This marks the beginning of the Austro-Venetian war, at this stage known as the Uskok war.

1618 - 1648 A.D. Croatia

Around 30,000 Croatian soldiers, mainly cavalry, participate in the Thirty Years’ War. Croatian troops fight against Miklós Bethlen (1642–1716) in Bohemia and Hungary.

1620 A.D. Croatia

Jesuits build the Church of St Catherine in Zagreb, from its architecture and inventory one of the most outstanding Jesuit churches in Croatia.

1638 A.D. Croatia

Jesuits build their church in . Dedicated to St Vitus it is the first and the biggest circular building in Croatia.

1642 A.D. Croatia

Jesuits build their church in Varaždin dedicated to the Assumption of Virgin. The church is considered to follow the style of the Roman church Il Gesù.

1656 A.D. Croatia

Governor Camilio Gonzaga establishes the city of Split. He proposed to the Venetian Senate to build a bulwark to defend the town. The Paulist School of philosophy was established.

1670 A.D. Croatia

In the church of Our Lady of Pirates in Komiža on the island of Stjepan Killarevich from Krakow builds one of three preserved 17th-century organs in Croatia.

1671 A.D. Croatia Date Country | Description

Petar Zrinski and executed in (Be#ko Novo Mjesto). Building of after the plan of A. Buffalini from Urbino which displays features of developed Roman Baroque.

1673 A.D. Croatia

Jesuit Stjepa Glava#, a professor of the Zagreb Academy, publishes the first domestic geographic map of Croatia, which meets the high standards of cartography of that time in Europe.

1684 A.D. Croatia

Great victories over in north Croatia. The commanders of the victorious army were Banus Nikola Erdödy, General Leslie and Johann Joseph Herberstein.

1699 A.D. Croatia

Peace in Srijemski Karlovci. The end of Turkish rule in north Croatia It remained under the rule of Habsburgs while south Croatia, with the exception of Dubrovnik Republic, was dominated by Venice.