Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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1929
- January 6: King Alexander abolished the Constitution, prorogued the National Assembly and introduced a personal dictatorship (6 January Dictatorship)
- January 7: General Petar Živković became prime minister, heading the regime's Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy.
- January 11: State Court for the Protection of the State was established in Belgrade. Croatian activist Branimir Jelić leaves the country for Austria.[1]
- April 20: The Sophia Declaration was released by the Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization calling for the independence of Croatia and Macedonia.
- April 25: Đuro Đaković, a prominent Trade unions' activist in Yugoslavia and the First secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was murdered by Yugoslav policemen at the Yugoslav-Austrian boundary in the present-day Slovenia, after four days of torturing and questioning in Zagreb police station.
- October 3: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was renamed to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The state was also divided into new administrative divisions called banovine (singular banovina).
- December 22: Vladko Maček arrested.
1930
- January 25: August Košutić and Juraj Krnjević of the Croatian Peasant Party delivered a memorandum to the League of Nations outlining the struggles of the Croats in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- June 14: Vladko Maček acquitted and released.
1931
- February 18: Writer Milan Šufflay is murdered by Yugoslav nationalists in Zagreb.
- September 3: A new 1931 Yugoslav Constitution was put in place to replace the one from 1921 (abolished in 1929).
- November 8: Elections held in which only one electoral list, headed by General Živković is on the ballot.
1932
- June 7: Yugoslav nationalists attempt to assassinate writer Mile Budak.
- September 6: Members of the Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement attempted to launch a revolution on Velebit.
- November 7: Peasant-Democrat Coalition released the Zagreb Points, which outlined the coalition's plan for a return to parliamentary democracy.
1933
- Svetozar Pribićević published Diktatura kralja Aleksandra (The Dictatorship of King Alexander) in exile in Prague.
- January: Sarajevo Points published by the Yugoslav Muslim Organization. The party's leader Mehmed Spaho was sentenced to twenty days in jail because of the document.[2]
- January 31: Vladko Maček arrested in relation with the Zagreb Points.
- April 29: Vladko Maček sentenced to three years in jail.
- July 14: Josip Predavec, vice-president of the Croatian Peasant Party, was killed in Dugo Selo.
1934
- February 9: Balkan Pact was signed by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania and Turkey.
- October 9: King Alexander was killed in Marseille by Vlado Chernozemski of the IMRO in cooperation with Croatian Ustaše.
- December 22: Vladko Maček released from jail.
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