Not to be confused with Alexander I of Yugoslavia.
Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић) (August 14, 1876 – June 11, 1903) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903.
In 1889, his father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age. His mother Natalija Obrenović became his regent...
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Not to be confused with Alexander I of Yugoslavia.
Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић) (August 14, 1876 – June 11, 1903) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903.
In 1889, his father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age. His mother Natalija Obrenović became his regent.
In 1893, King Alexander, aged seventeen, in a first coup d'état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands. His action was popular, and was rendered still more so by his appointment of a radical ministry.
In May 1894, King Alexander, by another coup, abolished the liberal constitution of 1889 and restored the conservative one of 1869. His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War (1897) was one of strict neutrality.
In the same year, the young King brought his...
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