The Kingdom of Serbia was proclaimed in the early 1880s under Milan Obrenović, after Serbia had gained full independence from the Ottoman Empire at the Congress of Berlin. The throne passed between the Obrenović and Karađorđević dynasties, and in 1903 a military coup led to the murder of King Alexander Obrenović and the return of the Karađorđević line under Peter I. The kingdom took part in the Balkan Wars, doubling its territory, and then fought on the Allied side in the First World War, suffering heavy casualties and a retreat across Albania. At the end of the war, it joined the former South Slav lands of Austria-Hungary in the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later called Yugoslavia.
Before and after
- 25 November 1881Birth of John XXIII
- 28 November 1881Birth of Stefan Zweig
- 4 December 1881Founding of HEC Paris
- 1882Founding of Burnley F.C.
- from 1882 to 1918Kingdom of Serbia
- 25 January 1882Birth of Virginia Woolf
- 30 January 1882Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2 February 1882Birth of James Joyce
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
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The era
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