This is a timeline of Croatian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Croatia and its predecessor states. Featured articles are in bold. To read about the background to these events, see History of Croatia. See also the list of rulers of Croatia and years in Croatia.

7th century Year Date Event 660 Porga became knez of the Principality of Littoral Croatia. Littoral Croatia was Christianized.Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. Gy. Moravcsik, trans. R.J.H. Jenkins, rev. ed., Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1967.

8th century Year Date Event 799 Siege of Trsat: Invading Frankish forces were repelled from Trsat, resulting in the death of their commander Eric of Friuli.

9th century Year Date Event 803 Borna became knez of Littoral Croatia following the death of his father Višeslav. 810 Ljudevit became knez of the Slavs in Lower Pannonia. 823 Ljudevit died.Royal Frankish Annales Annales Regni Francorum ed. G. H. Pertz. Monumenta Germanicae Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum 6, (Hannover 1895) for the years 819-822. 838 Knez Ratimir was deposed from the throne of Lower Pannonia in favor of the pro-French Ratbod. 839 Knez Mislav of Littoral Croatia signed a peace treaty with the Republic of VeniceNorwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982. during the early phase of the Croatian-Venetian wars. 840 Venetian Doge Pietro Tradonico led a failed assault on the nearby Croat land of Pagania. The Byzantine Emperor Basil I helped break an Arab siege of Dubrovnik.Fine, John Van Antwerp (p.257): "The early medieval Balkans: a critical survey from the sixth to the late 12th century" University of Michigan Press; /H.T. Norris (1994). Islam in the Balkans, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers; 846 Pagania breached Venice and raided the Venetian town of Caorle. 879 7 June Pope John VIII styled knez Branimir of Littoral Croatia Duke of Croats, effectively recognizing Littoral Croatia as an independent state.Stjepan Antoljak, Pregled hrvatske povijesti, Split 1993., str. 43. 887 18 September Venetian Doge Pietro I Candiano was killed in an attempted invasion of Pagania.Croatian History, geocities.com; accessed 8 March 2016.

10th century Year Date Event 925 Knez Tomislav of Littoral Croatia was crowned King of a united Croatia, establishing the Trpimirović dynastyKlaić V., Povijest Hrvata, Knjiga Prva, Druga, Treća, Četvrta i Peta Zagreb 1982. 926 Croatian–Bulgarian battle of 926: Tomislav defeated the invading forces of the Bulgarian Empire. 928 Pope Leo VI transferred the bishopric at Nin to Skradin.Hrvatski leksikon (1996-1997) 948 Venice tried and failed to capture Dubrovnik.Frederick Bernard Singleton (1985). "A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples", Cambridge University Press, 949 King Miroslav was killed by Ban Pribina during a civil war started by his younger brother Michael Krešimir II the Great, who succeeded him. 986 Byzantine Emperor Basil II recognized Croatia as an independent kingdom and declared King Stephen Držislav the Patriarch of Dalmatia and Croatia. 996 Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo stopped paying tax to the Croatian King after a century of peace, renewing old hostilities and starting a new phase of the Croatian-Venetian wars. 998 Siege of Zadar: Emperor Samuil of Western Bulgarian Tsardom launched a military campaign against Kingdom of Croatia and besieged the city of Zadar.

11th century Year Date Event 1000 Battle of Lastovo: Doge Pietro II Orseolo of the Republic of Venice attacked the Town of Lastovo in the Kingdom of Croatia and destroyed it. 1020 King Krešimir III was accused in the death of his brother Gojslav. Pope Benedict VIII withdrew his title pending an investigation....audivit de Cressimiro Chroatorum principe quod dolo necari fecisset Goislavum fratrem suum misso apocrisario Mainardo... Krešimir was restored. 1058 Peter Krešimir IV succeeded his father Stephen I upon his death. 1076 8 October Demetrius Zvonimir was crowned King in Solin by a representative of Pope Gregory VII. 1091 King Stephen II died peacefully without an heir, bringing the Trpimirović dynasty to a close.Stjepan II (1089 - 1091) royalcroatia 1097 Battle of Gvozd Mountain: King Petar Snačić died in a loss to King Coloman of Hungary.Petar Svacic (c.1091- 1097) royalcroatia

12th century Year Date Event 1102 The Croatian nobility agreed to the Pacta conventa under which Croatia was joined in a personal union with Hungary, with the King appointing the Ban of Croatia and the Croatian nobility holding power in the Sabor. 1185 Serbian forces launched a failed siege against Dubrovnik.Fine, John Van Antwerp: "The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late 12th century to the Ottoman Conquest", University of Michigan Press;

13th century Year Date Event 1204 26 August Emeric abdicated the throne to his young son Ladislaus III of Hungary. 1205 7 May Ladislaus died. He was succeeded by Emeric's younger brother Andrew II of Hungary. 1235 21 September Andrew died. He was succeeded by his son Béla IV of Hungary. 1242 16 November Béla issued the Golden Bull of 1242, giving the residents of Gradec some individual and democratic rights and releasing them from allegiance to local lords. 1270 3 May Béla died. He was succeeded by his son, Stephen V of Hungary. 1272 6 August Stephen died. He was succeeded by his son Ladislaus IV of Hungary. 1293 Paul I Šubić of Bribir became Ban of Croatia. 1299 Paul conquered Bosnia, taking the title of Dominus of Bosnia, and appointing his brother Mladen I Šubić of Bribir Ban of Bosnia. Šubići bribirski do gubitka nasljedne banske časti (1322.) Damir Karbić

14th century Year Date Event 1301 14 January Andrew died without a son. Charles Martel's son Charles I of Hungary was crowned King of Hungary. 27 August The Hungarian nobility crowned Wenceslaus III of Bohemia King of Hungary and Croatia. 1305 After quashing resistance in Bosnia, Paul I Šubić took the title Lord of All Bosnia and the exclusive power of coining money. 6 December Wenceslaus III of Bohemia abdicated the throne to Otto III, Duke of Bavaria. 1307 June Otto was imprisoned by the Transylvanian Voivode Ladislaus Kán. 10 October The Hungarian nobility elected Charles King. 1308 Otto abdicated his claim to the Hungarian throne. 1312 1 May Paul I Šubić died. His son Mladen II Šubić of Bribir succeeded him as Ban. 1322 Battle of Bliska: Mladen lost to a coalition of Croatian noblemen at Trogir. 8 October Charles dismissed Mladen as Ban. 1342 16 July Charles died. He was succeeded by his son Louis I of Hungary. 1345 12 August Siege of Zadar was laid by the Republic of Venice. 1358 18 February The Treaty of Zadar was signed. Venice ceded Dalmatia to Croatia. 1370 17 November Louis became King of Poland on the death of Casimir III the Great. 1382 11 September Louis died. He was succeeded in Hungary by his ten-year-old daughter Mary, Queen of Hungary with his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia acting as regent. 1385 Mary was overthrown by Charles III of Naples. 1386 7 February Charles was assassinated on Elizabeth's orders. 1387 31 March Mary was again crowned Queen of Hungary. Her husband Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor was crowned King. 1390 Charles's son Ladislaus of Naples expressed a claim to the throne of Hungary. 1392 Sigismund appointed Nicholas II Garay Ban of Croatia. 1395 17 May Mary died under suspicious circumstances. Sigismund became the sole ruler of Croatia and Hungary. 1397 Nicholas left office. 27 February Bloody Sabor of Križevci: Croatian Ban Stjepan II Lacković was killed in Križevci for supporting Ladislaus against King Sigismund.Križevci Bloody Assembly krizevci.euKingdom of Croatia AD 925 - 1918 European Kingdoms

15th century Year Date Event 1403 5 August Hungarian nobles opposed to Sigismund crowned Ladislaus King. 1406 Hermann II, Count of Celje became Ban of Croatia. 1408 Hermann left office. 1409 Ladislaus sold his rights on Dalmatia to Venice. 1437 9 December Sigismund died. 1438 1 January Sigismund's son-in-law Albert II of Germany was crowned King of Hungary and Croatia according to his will. 1439 27 October Albert died without a male heir; his wife was pregnant with his son Ladislaus the Posthumous. 1440 22 February Ladislaus was born. 15 May Władysław III of Poland accepted the Hungarian crown from the nobility. Ladislaus's mother crowned him King. 1444 10 November Battle of Varna: Władysław died in a battlefield loss to the Ottoman Empire. The Hungarian nobility elected Ladislaus, then imprisoned in Schloss Ort by his second cousin Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, with John Hunyadi acting as regent. 1452 Ladislaus was freed by Ulrich II, Count of Celje, who became his guardian and effectively his regent. 1456 9 November Ulrich was killed by Hunyadi's son Ladislaus. 1457 16 March Ladislaus had Ladislaus Hunyadi beheaded and fled Hungary. 23 November Ladislaus died, probably of leukemia. 1458 20 January The Hungarian nobility elected Ladislaus Hunyadi's brother Matthias Corvinus King. 1472 Nicholas of Ilok became Ban of Croatia. Nicholas left office. 1483 Matija Gereb was made Ban. 1489 Gereb left office. 1490 6 April Matthias died without legitimate heirs. 18 September The Hungarian nobility elected Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary as King. 1493 9 September Battle of Krbava field: Croatia suffered a defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.Ramet, Sabrina P. & Davorka Matić. Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education & Media, pg. xiiBattle of Krbava field, crohis.com; accessed 8 March 2016. 1499 Matthias's illegitimate son John Corvinus became Ban of Croatia.

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