Croatia in personal union with Hungary

personal union of the Kingdom of Croatia and the Kingdom of Hungary from 1102 to 1526

39 dated entries naming Croatia in personal union with Hungary, drawn from 35 separate years between 1109 CE and 1522 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Croatia in the union with Hungary, Croatia in union with Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia (1102–1526) in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

JSONWikipedia articleWikidata Q1789596

12th century

  • 1109Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1141)source
  • 1127September 1 – Prince Álmos (or Almus), duke of Hungary and Croatiasource
  • 1131Ladislaus II, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1163)source
  • 1133Stephen IV, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1165)source
  • 1147Stephen III, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1172)source
  • 1148Béla III, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1196)source
  • 1157Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary, Queen of England by marriage to Henry the Young King and queen of Hungary and Croatia by marriage to Béla III of Hungary (died 1197)source
  • 1162May 31 – Géza II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1130)source
  • 1162July 15 – Ladislaus II, duke of Bosnia, is declared king of Hungary and Croatia. He is crowned by Archbishop Mikó and grants one-third of the kingdom to his brother, Stephen IV.source
  • 1165April 11 – Stephen IV, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1133)source
  • 1174Emeric, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1204)source
  • 1181King Béla III of Hungary and Croatia goes to war with Venice in an effort to recover Dalmatia. The city of Zadar (located on the Adriatic Sea) accepts Béla's suzerainty.source
  • 1196April 23 – Béla III of Hungary dies after a 23-year reign in which he has supported the former Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos against the invading Bulgarians. Having made the Hungarian court one of the most brilliant in Europe and made his hereditary monarchy. Béla is succeeded by his 22-year-old son Emeric as ruler of Hungary, Croatia and Dalmatia (until 1204).source
  • 1196April 23 – Béla III, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1148)source
  • 1197Autumn – A brothers' quarrel breaks out between Emeric, King of Hungary and his younger brother Duke Andrew. After a brief skirmish, Emeric is forced to cede Croatia and Dalmatia to Andrew, who begins to administer the provinces as a de facto sovereign monarch.source

13th century

  • 1202September 8 – Enrico Dandolo takes the cross and agrees to lead a Venetian force, which, in an outburst of Crusading enthusiasm, reaches some 21,000 men – the largest contingent of the Fourth Crusade. He proclaims the debts will be wiped if the Crusaders take the 'rebel' Dalmatian city of Zara (modern-day Zadar) which has pledged its loyalty to Emeric, king of Hungary and Croatia. The Zara proposal causes disquiet in the Crusader ranks and also upsets Pope Innocent III who threatens to excommunicate those who attack Zara.source
  • 1205May 7 – Ladislaus III, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1200)source
  • 1205May 29 – Andrew II, brother of the late King Emeric, is crowned ruler of Hungary and Croatia at Székesfehérvár, after his 5-year-old nephew, Ladislaus III, suddenly dies in Vienna. Andrew introduces a new policy for royal grants, which he calls "new institutions". He distributes large portions of his domain–such as royal castles and all estates attached to them–to supporters and Hungarian nobles.source
  • 1206Béla IV, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1270)source
  • 1260Croatia is divided into two sub-regions ruled by ban: the Croatian region on the south and Slavonian region on the north, by King Béla IV of Hungary.source
  • 1261February 11 – Otto III, Duke of Bavaria, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1312)source
  • 1272August 6 – King Stephen V of Hungary falls ill and is taken to Csepel Island. He dies and is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Ladislaus IV ("the Cuman"), who is being held captive in the fortress of Koprivnica in northern Croatia. His mother, Queen Elizabeth, becomes regent during the minority of her son (until 1277).source
  • 1289October 6 – Wenceslaus III, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1306)source
  • 1290July 10 – Ladislaus IV ("the Cuman"), king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1262)source
  • 1290July 10 – King Ladislaus IV of Hungary ("the Cuman") is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern Romania). He is succeeded by Andrew III ("the Venetian"), after an election by Hungarian nobles, who is crowned by Archbishop Lodomer as new ruler of Hungary and Croatia in Székesfehérvár on July 23.source

14th century

  • 1301January 14 – With the death of King Andrew III ("the Venetian") after a short illness, possibly from poisoning, the Árpád Dynasty in Hungary ends. This results in a power struggle between Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Otto III of Bavaria, and Charles Robert of Naples. Eventually, Wenceslaus is elected and crowned as king of Hungary and Croatia. His rule is only nominal, because a dozen powerful Hungarian nobles hold sway over large territories in the kingdom.source
  • 1305Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary and Croatia (died 1380)source
  • 1306August 4 – Wenceslaus III, king of Hungary, Croatia and Poland (born 1289)source
  • 1308November 27 – On the same day, Hungarian nobles formally elect the 20-year-old Charles Robert of Salerno as King of Hungary and Croatia in the Hungarian city of Pest (now part of Budapest). He becomes Charles I, but his rule remains nominal in most parts of the realm after he is crowned.source
  • 1317December 15 – Maria of Bytom, queen consort of Hungary and Croatiasource
  • 1326March 5 – King Louis I of Hungary and Croatia (died 1382)source
  • 1358February 18 – Treaty of Zadar, between Louis I of Hungary/Croatia and the Republic of Venice: The Venetians lose influence over their former Dalmatian holdings.source
  • 1386February 24 – Elizabeth of Bosnia, the mother of the overthrown Queen Mary of Hungary and Croatia, arranges the assassination of Charles III of Naples, the ruler of Hungary, Naples, Achaea and Croatia, with the result that Mary is reinstated as Queen of Hungary and Croatia; Charles' son, Ladislaus, becomes King of Naples; and a period of interregnum begins in Achaea, lasting until 1396. The rule of Achaea is sought by numerous pretenders, none of whom can be considered to have reigned.source

15th century

  • 1441March 1 – Battle of Samobor: The army of Ulrich II, Count of Celje, defeats the army of Stjepan Banić at Samobor, Croatia in union with Hungary.source
  • 1483October 29 – Battle of Una: Forces of the Kingdom of Croatia defeat the army of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1491September – At the battle of Vrpile Gulch in southern Croatia, the armies of the Ottoman Empire are defeated by those of the Kingdom of Croatia.source
  • 1493September 9 – At the Battle of Krbava Field in southern Croatia, forces of the Ottoman Empire defeat those of the Kingdom of Croatia.source

16th century

  • 1513August 16 – Battle of Dubica (part of the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War): Croatian troops under Petar Berislavić, Ban (Viceroy) of Croatia, defeat an Ottoman army under Sanjak-bey Junuz-aga.source
  • 1522May 28 – The Ottoman Empire's siege of Knin in the Kingdom of Croatia is successful as Mihajlo Vojković surrenders to Gazi Husrev Bey and most of the Croatian inhabitants are allowed to leave. Inhabitants of Bosnia then move in.source

Named in the same entries