879    Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.

927    Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.

1671    Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

1848    Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

1941    World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk.

1945    World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from the German and Croatian Nazis by the Yugoslav Partisans.

1945    Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.

1946    Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

1987    Croat Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the offices of the Australia Post in Melbourne, before being killed himself.

1991    Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.