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Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

Timeline of Events

1944

8.2.1944

ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.

1946

1.31.1946

Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

1963

7.26.1963

An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

1991

9.8.1991

The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

1993

4.8.1993

The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.

2001

8.1.2001

An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.

8.21.2001

NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

2004

2.26.2004

Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.