The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, usually called IMRO, was a revolutionary movement founded in Thessaloniki by a group of teachers and activists, among them Damyan Gruev and Gotse Delchev, to win autonomy for Macedonia and the Adrianople region from Ottoman rule. It organized a network of committees and armed bands, and in 1903 launched the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, which was crushed by the Ottomans with heavy loss of life. After the Balkan Wars and the First World War divided Macedonia among Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the organization continued, mainly in Bulgaria, as a nationalist and sometimes violent political force. It was suppressed after a coup in Bulgaria in 1934. Its legacy is claimed by both Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Before and after
- 9 December 1892Founding of Newcastle United F.C.
- 17 December 1892Launch of Vogue
- 1893Construction of Corinth Canal
- 1893Founding of VfB Stuttgart
- from 1893 to 1934Rise of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
- 12 January 1893Birth of Hermann Göring
- 17 January 1893Death of Rutherford B. Hayes
- 20 April 1893Birth of Joan Miró
- 30 April 1893Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop
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