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- November 28, 1912: Ismail Qemali declares Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire in Vlorë.
- 1914–1918: Albania faces severe instability and foreign occupation during World War I.
- 1928: Ahmed Zog dissolves parliament and declares the country the Kingdom of Albania, ruling as King Zog I.
- November 29, 1944: Communist partisans led by Enver Hoxha take control of the country after German forces withdraw.
- 1946: The People's Republic of Albania is officially established as a hardline Stalinist state.
- 1967: Hoxha declares Albania the world's first officially atheist state, banning all public and private religious practice.
- 1990–1991: Student protests and civic unrest force the collapse of the communist regime, transitioning Albania into a multiparty democracy.
- 1997: A nationwide civil crisis erupts following the collapse of disastrous pyramid investment schemes.
- April 2009: Albania officially joins NATO alongside Croatia.
- The Ottoman period and Skanderbeg
- Enver Hoxha's communist regime
- Modern EU integration and economy
1939 - Shortly before the start of World War Two, Italy invades. King Zog flees to Greece.
1940 - Italian army attacks Greece through Albania.
1941 - Enver Hoxha becomes head of new Albanian Communist Party.
1943 - German forces invade and occupy Albania following Italian surrender.
1944 - Germans withdraw after Communist resistance. Enver Hoxha installed as new leader.
1945 - Tribunals begin against thousands of "war criminals".
1946 - Purges of non-communists from government positions.
1948 - Albania breaks ties with Yugoslavia. Soviet Union begins economic aid to Albania.
1950 - Britain and US back landings by right-wing guerrillas, who fail to topple communists.
1955 - Albania becomes a founding member of the Warsaw Pact.
Isolationist state
1961 - Albania allies itself with China, after Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations over ideological rift.
1967 - Violent clampdown on religious activity. Albania declared the world's first atheist state.
1968 - Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact over Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
1978 - China ends economic and military aid to Albania after relations become strained by China's reconciliation with the US.
1985 - Hoxha dies, replaced by Ramiz Alia.
Political upheavals
1989 - Communist rule in Eastern Europe collapses. Ramiz Alia signals changes to economic system.
1990 - Independent political parties formed. Albanians granted right to travel abroad. Thousands try to flee through Western embassies.
Thousands more seize ships at port and sail illegally to Italy.
1991 - In multiparty elections, the Communist Party and allies win 169 of the 250 seats, the newly-formed Democratic Party takes 75.
General amnesty for political prisoners. First opposition newspaper published.
Alia re-elected president. Prime Minister Fatos Nano resigns after protests at economic conditions and killing of opposition demonstrators.
New government headed by Vilson Ahmeti.
1992 - Democratic Party wins elections. Party leader Sali Berisha, a former cardiologist, becomes first elected president. Aleksander Meksi is prime minister.
1993 - Ex-communist leaders, including Fatos Nano and Ramiz Alia, convicted and jailed for corruption.
Anger on streets
1994 - National referendum rejects new constitution which opponents said allowed president too much power.
1995 - Alia released from prison following appeal-court ruling.
1996 - Democratic Party general election victory tainted by accusations of fraud.
1997 - Leka, son of late King Zog, returns from exile in bid to take throne. Referendum on restoration of monarchy fails. He is accused of trying to stir up an armed insurrection and goes back into exile.
Fraudulent pyramid investment schemes collapse, costing thousands of Albanians their savings and triggering anti-government protests.
Up to a million weapons are looted from army stores as angry mobs take to the streets.
Government resigns and Socialist-led coalition sweeps to power. Fatos Nano, now released from prison, returns as prime minister.
Sali Berisha resigns as president in wake of financial crisis. He is succeeded by Socialist leader Rexhep Mejdani.
Convictions of communist-era leaders overturned.
1998 - Escalating unrest in Kosovo sends refugees across border into Albania.
September - Violent anti-government street protests after prominent opposition Democratic Party politician, Azem Hajdari, shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
Prime Minister Fatos Nano quits. Former student activist, Pandeli Majko, named as new prime minister.
Refugee influx
1999 - Nato air strikes against Yugoslav military targets. In Kosovo thousands flee attacks by Serb forces. Mass refugee exodus into Albania.
October - Majko resigns as prime minister after losing Socialist Party leadership vote. 30-year-old Iler Meta becomes Europe's youngest prime minister.
2001 January - Albania and Yugoslavia re-establish diplomatic relations broken off during the Kosovo crisis in 1999.
2001 July - Ruling Socialist Party secures second term in office by winning general elections. Prime Minister Iler Meta forms a new coalition government in September.
2002 January - Prime Minister Iler Meta steps down after a growing dispute with Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano; he is succeeded by Pandeli Majko.
2002 June - Parliament elects Alfred Moisiu president after rival political leaders Nano and Berisha reach compromise, easing months of tension.
Royal family returns from exile.
2002 August - Fatos Nano becomes prime minister after the ruling Socialist Party decides to merge the roles of premier and party chairman. It is Nano's fourth time as premier.
Steps towards EU
2003 January - Albania and EU begin Stabilisation and Association Agreement talks, seen as possible first step in long road to EU membership.
2005 September - After two months of political wrangling, former president Sali Berisha emerges as the victor of July's general election.
2006 June - Stabilisation and Association agreement signed with EU.
2007 June - President George W Bush becomes the first US leader to visit Albania, highlighting its position as a close ally of Washington.
2007 July - Parliament elects ruling party chairman Bamir Topi president, after three failed rounds of voting made a snap election look like a distinct possibility.
2009 April - Albania officially joins Nato and formally applies for membership of the European Union. Albania is not expected to join the EU until 2015 at the earliest.
Berisha re-elected
2009 July - Sali Berisha's centre-right Democratic Party wins parliamentary elections by a narrow margin.
2009 November - Opposition Socialist Party begins series of demonstrations in Tirana in protest at alleged vote-rigging in the parliamentary election.
2010 May - Socialist leader Edi Rama calls for a campaign of civil disobedience to continue until government agrees to a partial recount of 2009 election.
2010 November - European Union rejects Albania's request for EU candidate status, but eases visa requirements for Albanians.
2011 January - Deadly clashes leave four anti-government protesters dead in demonstration about corruption and alleged election vote rigging outside the prime minister's office in Tirana.
2011 December - Former intelligence chief Ilir Kumbaro, wanted on torture charges in Albania, jumps bail and goes missing in London, where he had been hiding under a false name since 1996.
2012 November - The remains of former King Zog are repatriated to Albania from France, where he died in 1961.
2013 June - General elections. Opposition Socialist Party wins landslide victory.
2013 September - Socialist leader Edi Rama becomes prime minister.
Tensions with Serbia
2014 June - The European Commission recommends Albania as a candidate for European Union membership.
2014 November - Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to Belgrade to mend bridges fails after he and Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic row publicly over Kosovo.
2015 March - Socialist government announces plan to privatise state oil company Albpetrol, two years after previous Democratic Party government shelved it.
2016 July - The governing Socialist Party and the opposition Democratic Party agree sweeping judicial reforms seen as key to moving towards accession talks with the EU.
2019 November - Albania is hit by the strongest earthquake to affect the country in more than 40 years, with 51 people killed and about 3,000 injured.
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