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Chronology of Macedonian History

C. 653 B.C. Ancient Macedonia has been divided as Up and Down Macedonia. King Perdiccas I establishes the Macedonian Kingdom. Ancient Macedonian kings from Perdicca I to Perdicca III .
359-336 B.C. Significant military and financial reforms carried out during the reign of Philip II , determining the geographical, historical, and ethnic boundaries of Macedonia.
336-323 B.C. Reign of Alexander the Great , King of Macedon. Macedonia reaches the peak of its military power. He spreads Macedonian culture to the East.
215-205, 200-193, 171-167 B.C. Macedonian - Roman wars. Macedonia falls under Roman rule.
A.D. 535 The Byzantine Emperor establishes the town of Justiniana Prima (in the vicinity of Skopje), an important church (archbishop's seat) and political centre in the Balkans.
855 The brothers Cyril and Methody -- create the first Slavonic alphabet .
886 Clement comes to Macedonia, spreads Christianity in the Slavonic language and founds the Ohrid Literary School. After Clement of Ohrid Naum was the most consistent and worthy of the pupils of the Salonica brothers Cyril and Methodius .
969 The sons of komes Nicholas (David, Moses, Aaron, and Samuil) rebel against Bulgarian authority and establish the medieval Macedonian state, which in 997 becomes the Macedonian Empire.
1014 Battle of Mount Belasica. The army of the Macedonian Tsar Samuil is defeated by the Byzantines.
1018 The Macedonian Empire falls under Byzantine rule.
1040-1042 Insurrection against Byzantine authority led by Petar Deljan.
1072-1073 Gjorgji Vojteh's insurrection based in Macedonia.
1371 The Battle of Marica and penetration of the Turks into the Balkans.
1395 Macedonia falls under Turkish domination.King Marko dies in a battle near Rovin.
1564-1565 The Mariovo - Prilep Rebellion, the first known rebellion of the Macedonian peasants.
1689 The Karpos Uprising, insurrection of the Macedonian people against the Turks in the Kriva Palanka and Kumanovo regions.
1767 The Abolition of the Archbishopric of Ohrid by an irade of the Sultan under the pressure of the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople.
1822 The Negus Uprising, insurrection of the Macedonians for liberation in the Aegean part of Macedonia.
1876 The Razlovci Uprising, insurrection in eastern Macedonia which heralded the national liberation struggle.
1878-1879 The Macedonian Kresna Uprising, insurrection which adopted a constitution known as The Rules of the Macedonian Uprising Committee.
1894 Establishment of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. Gotse Delchev joins the Organization.
1902 Foundation of the Slavonic - Macedonian Scholarly Literary Society in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1903 The Ilinden Uprising and the ten days of the Krushevo Republic. The Manifesto of the Krushevo Republic
1909 Establishment and activity of the Popular Federal Party.
1912-13 The Balkan Wars and Macedonia's partition with the Peace Treaty of Bucharest.
1914-1918 The First World War.
1919 The Treaty of Versailles sanctions the partition of Macedonia.
1924 The May Manifesto, resolution of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia on the right of the Macedonian people to self- determination.
1925 The establishment of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United).
1934 The Fourth Nationwide Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. This passed a decision on the establishment of a national party in Macedonia.
1936 Establishment and ideational-political formation of the MANAPO (Macedonian National Movement).
1936 Foundation of the Macedonian Literary Society in Sofia by outstanding Macedonian writers.
1940 The Fifth Nationwide Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. This passed a resolution on the equality and self- determination of the Macedonian people.
1939-1945 The Second World War.
1941-1944 Macedonia's participation in the Second World War (National Liberation War of Macedonia).
1944 Proclomation of the Macedonian state. (August 2).
1945 Formation of the first government of the People's Republic of Macedonia (April 16).
1945 Adoption of the Macedonian alphabet.
1946 Start of university education in Macedonian (Faculty of Philosophy).
1946 Adoption of the first constitution of the People's Republic of Macedonia.
1967 Foundation of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1967 Proclomation of the autocephalous Macedonian Orthodox Church (Restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid).
1991 Referendum on a sovereign and independent state (September 8).
1991 Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia (November 17).
1993 Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
1995 Macedonia becomes a member of the Council of Europe.