1913 in Croatia
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Events from the year 1913 in Croatia
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Events from the year 1913 in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Franz Joseph I
- Ban of CroatiaBan of CroatiaBan of Croatia was the title of local rulers and after 1102 viceroys of Croatia. From earliest periods of Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by Bans as a rulers representative and supreme military commander. In the 18th century, Croatian bans eventually become chief government officials in...
– Slavko CuvajSlavko CuvajBaron Slavko Cuvaj de Ivanska was a Croatian politician who used to be the ban of Croatia-Slavonia and royal commissioner for Austria-Hungary....
Events
- July 21 – Slavko CuvajSlavko CuvajBaron Slavko Cuvaj de Ivanska was a Croatian politician who used to be the ban of Croatia-Slavonia and royal commissioner for Austria-Hungary....
relieved from the post of the Royal Commissioner for Croatia-Slovenia. He had been appointed in January 1912, when anti-HabsburgHabsburg MonarchyThe Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918. The Imperial capital was Vienna, except from 1583 to 1611, when it was moved to Prague...
sentiments were on the rise in Croatia, often manifesting in sympathies for SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
and calls for creation of YugoslaviaYugoslaviaYugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
. Cuvaj tried to curb those trends by a series of decrees directed at curbing press freedom, limiting rights of assembly and local autonomy. This created a backlash in the form of strikes and demonstrations, and Cuvaj himself was target of two assassination attempts in 1912. - November 27 – Iván SkerleczIván SkerleczIván Skerlecz de Lomnicza was the last Hungarian to be ban of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.Skerlecz was born in Oroszló, Baranya County, Hungary in 1873...
proclaimed Ban and called for parliamentary elections. - December 16–17 – Parliamentary electionsCroatian parliamentary election, 1913Croatian parliamentary elections were held on 16th and 17 December 1913. There were 209,618 eligible male voters. According to the census of December 31, 1910, the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia had a population of 2,621,954....
are held in the Kingdom of Croatia-SlavoniaKingdom of Croatia-SlavoniaThe Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia or Croatia Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was part of the Hungarian Kingdom within the dual Austro-Hungarian state, being within the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen or Transleithania...
. The Croat-Serb CoalitionCroat-Serb CoalitionThe Croat-Serb Coalition was a major political alliance in Austria-Hungary during the beginning of the 20th century that governed the Croatian lands . It represented the political idea of a cooperation of Croats and Serbs in Austria-Hungary for mutual benefit...
wins with 39.09% of the vote.
Arts and literature
- Ivana Brlić-MažuranićIvana Brlic-MažuranicIvana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.-Life:She was born on April 18, 1874 in Ogulin into a well-known Croatian family of Mažuranić...
released the children's book The Brave Adventures of LapitchThe Brave Adventures of LapitchThe Brave Adventures of Lapitch , also known as The Marvellous Adventures of Hlapić the Apprentice, is a 1913 novel by Croatia children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić....
(Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića) in Zagreb.
Births
- January 7 – Franjo GlaserFranjo GlaserFranjo Glaser was a Croatian football goalkeeper and football manager...
, footballer (d. 2003) - February 22 – Ranko MarinkovićRanko MarinkovicRanko Marinković was a Croatian author born in Komiža on the island of Vis ....
, writer (d. 2001) - April 8 – Rudi SupekRudi SupekRudi Supek was a Croatian sociologist and a member of the Praxis School of Marxism.Supek studied philosophy in Zagreb and graduated in 1937. He went to study clinical psychology in Paris, where he was when World War II erupted...
, sociologist (d. 1993)
Deaths
- October 7 – Ivan BanjavčićIvan BanjavcicIvan Banjavčić , was a Croatian politician and philanthropist.He was a fervent follower of Ante Starčević of the Croatian Party of Rights and acted as the leader of the party in Karlovac...
, politician (b. 1843) - April 16 – Miroslav KraljevićMiroslav KraljevicMiroslav Kraljević was a Croatian painter, printmaker and sculptor, active in the early part of the 20th century. He is one of the founders of modern art in Croatia....
, painter (b. 1885)