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Josip Broz Tito Biography and Timeline

Follow Josip Broz Tito through 61 dated historical records for Yugoslavia.

Josip Broz Tito, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1892–1949Years on this page

1892

Birth of Josip Broz Tito

Marshal · Politics / Communist Party

Birth of Josip Broz Tito

1943

Capture of Kotor

Marshal · Kotor · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Partisans capture Kotor in Yugoslavia

Role range: 1939-1945

Constitution of Yugoslavia

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Tito establishes a provisional Government at liberated Jajce, in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Role range: 1939-1945

Government

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Tito establishes a provisional Government at liberated Jajce, in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Role range: 1939-1945

Provisional Government

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Tito establishes a provisional Government at liberated Jajce, in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Role range: 1939-1945

Independence of Yugoslavia

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Yugoslav Government in Cairo repudiates Titos provisional Government

Role range: 1939-1945

Provisional Government

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Yugoslav Government in Cairo repudiates Titos provisional Government

Role range: 1939-1945

Yugoslav Government in Cairo repudiates Titos provisional Government

Marshal · Cairo · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Yugoslav Government in Cairo repudiates Titos provisional Government

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Split

Marshal · Split · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Partisans capture Split in Yugoslavia

Role range: 1939-1945

Marshal

Marshal · Warfare / Military

Appointed Marshal, had organized the National Liberation Army

Marshal

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Marshal, had organized the National Liberation Army

Role range: 1939-1945

Rebellion of Rebels in Vis

Marshal · Vis · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Tito flees from Yugoslavia & forms a partisan base on the Island of Vis

Role range: 1939-1945

1944

Rebellion of Rebels in Drvar

Marshal · Drvar · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Moves his HQ to Drvar

Role range: 1939-1945

Rebellion of Rebels in Jajce

Marshal · Jajce · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Germans launch an offensive against Titos partisans & drive them out of their HQ

Role range: 1939-1945

Rebellion of Rebels in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marshal · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The XV Gebirg Corps attack Tito at his HQ in Bosnia & destroys the Yugoslav Army, YANL

Role range: 1939-1945

Siege of Tito HQ

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The XV Gebirg Corps attack Tito at his HQ in Bosnia & destroys the Yugoslav Army, YANL

Role range: 1939-1945

XV Gebirg Corps

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The XV Gebirg Corps attack Tito at his HQ in Bosnia & destroys the Yugoslav Army, YANL

Role range: 1939-1945

YANL

Marshal · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The XV Gebirg Corps attack Tito at his HQ in Bosnia & destroys the Yugoslav Army, YANL

Role range: 1939-1945

Rebellion of Rebels in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marshal · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Germans launch an attack on Tito at his HQ on his birthday, the attempt fails

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Ratweek

Marshal · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Tito & his Partisans pour into Serbia & attack the Chetniks. RAF & Yugoslav partisans attack roads & railways to prevent Germans escaping. A series of coordinated attacks launched on by Yugoslav partisans and the Balkan Air Force against German forces retreating from the Soviets

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Belgrade

Marshal · Belgrade · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Belgrade is liberated

Role range: 1939-1945

1945

Election Election Outcome

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

General election outcome recorded for Josip Broz Tito: Secures an overwhelming Majority in the General Election

Election Government

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Government context for this general election: Secures an overwhelming Majority in the General Election

Election

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Secures an overwhelming Majority in the General Election

General Election - Election

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Secures an overwhelming Majority in the General Election

Constitution of Yugoslavia

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Proclaims the Yugoslav Federal Republic after the expulsion of the German forces

Rule of Kosovo

Marshal · Kosovo · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Kosovo becomes a province of Serbia, the largest republic of the new, Communist Yugoslav federation

1946

Visit to Moscow

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia · Moscow · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Returns from Russia with a promise of arms & munitions credits. Marshal Tito is personally received by Stalin during his visit to Moscow

Role range: 1946-1953

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Appointed Prime Minister of Yugoslavia

Role range: 1946-1953

1947

Balkan Federative Republic

Marshal · Bled · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

The Bled Agreement is signed by Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian leader, and Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav leader, which paves the way for future unification between the states in a new Balkan Federative Republic

Bled Agreement

Marshal · Bled · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

The Bled Agreement is signed by Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian leader, and Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav leader, which paves the way for future unification between the states in a new Balkan Federative Republic

Bled Agreement

Marshal · Bled · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

The Yugoslav Government negotiates in the conference of Bled that Bulgaria will waive $25 million in war damages owed by Yugoslavia

Rule of Adriatic

Marshal · Adriatic · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Italy cedes most of its Adriatic Islands to Yugoslavia

Rule of Istria

Marshal · Istria · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Italy cedes Istria to Yugoslavia

Treaty of Friendship

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

The Treaty of Friendship agrees to economic cooperation, on customs facilitation, agreement for preparation of a customs union, the facilitation of border crossings, border crossing on the border of population and of the citizenship between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Role range: 1946-1953

1948

Balkan Federative Republic

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

During the Cominform, the Yugoslav and Bulgarian Communist leaders Josip Broz Tito and Georgi Dimitrov work on a project to merge their two countries into a Balkan Federative Republic

Balkan Federative Republic

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Proposes a Balkan Federation including a customs union with Czech & Poland. Eastern European countries drop the Balkan Federation after Russian opposition

Economy of Yugoslavia

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Proposes a Balkan Federation including a customs union with Czech & Poland

Independence of Yugoslavia

Marshal · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Begins to leads Yugoslavia away from Stalin

1949

Cominform

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia · Government / Government of Yugoslavia

Tito does not attend the second meeting of the Cominform, fearing that Yugoslavia will be attacked. Other member countries expel Yugoslavia citing "nationalist elements" that had "managed in the course of the past five or six months to reach a dominant position in the leadership" of the CPY

Role range: 1946-1953

Records, sources and methodology

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