{"slug": "serbian-despotate", "label": "Serbian Despotate", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Despotate", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q878319", "qid": "Q878319", "description": "former country (1402-1459/1537)", "entries": 17, "years": 14, "span": [1377, 1485], "span_label": ["1377 CE", "1485 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Despot of Serbia", "Despotate of Serbia"], "related": [{"slug": "stefan-lazarevic", "label": "Stefan Lazarević", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "ura-brankovic", "label": "Đurađ Branković", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "belgrade", "label": "Belgrade", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "serbia", "label": "Serbia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bayezid-i", "label": "Bayezid I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "timurid-empire", "label": "Timurid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "murad-ii", "label": "Murad II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shkoder", "label": "Shkodër", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "albania", "label": "Albania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kosovo", "label": "Kosovo", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1377, "year_label": "1377 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Stefan Lazarević, Despot of Serbia (d. 1427)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368383535#Births", "title": "1377", "revid": 1368383535, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1377, "year_label": "1377 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Đurađ Branković, Despot of Serbia (d. 1456)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368383535#Births", "title": "1377", "revid": 1368383535, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – Battle of Ankara: An invading Timurid Empire force defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who is captured. A period of interregnum begins in the Ottoman Empire, with the future Mehmed I as one of the leading claimants to the throne. After Serbia is freed from Ottoman rule, Stefan Lazarević is crowned Despot of Serbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371594109#July–September", "title": "1402", "revid": 1371594109, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – Stefan Lazarević leads the Serbian Despotate to victory over the Ottoman Governor Durad Brankovic at the Battle of Tripolje.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371594109#October–December", "title": "1402", "revid": 1371594109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Stefan Lazarević establishes Belgrade, as the capital of the Serbian Despotate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#Date_unknown", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1412, "year_label": "1412 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 29", "text": "January 29 – The \"Mining Code\" (Zakon o Rudnishma) is enacted in Serbia by the Despot Stefan Lazarević to regulate the extraction of minerals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357537157#January–March", "title": "1412", "revid": 1357537157, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1423, "year_label": "1423 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – The Treaty of Sveti Srdj ends the Second Scutari War, waged between the Serbian Despotate and the Venetian Republic, over Scutari, and other former possessions of Zeta, captured by the Venetians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656788#July–September", "title": "1423", "revid": 1365656788, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1426, "year_label": "1426 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – The Second Scutari War between the Republic of Venice and the Serbian Despotate is formally ended by the signing of a treaty at the then Serbian city of Vushtrri in what is now Albania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360579570#April–June", "title": "1426", "revid": 1360579570, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1427, "year_label": "1427 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – Stefan Lazarević, ruler of the Serbian Despotate, dies at Belgrade and is succeeded by his nephew, Đurađ Branković.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937201#July–September", "title": "1427", "revid": 1365937201, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1427, "year_label": "1427 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – Stefan Lazarević, Despot of Serbia (b. 1377)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937201#Deaths", "title": "1427", "revid": 1365937201, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1439, "year_label": "1439 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18 – Smederevo Fortress, the seat of government of the Despotate of Serbia, surrenders to the Ottoman Empire after a siege of three months under the command of the Sultan Murad II. The siege had started after the Despot, Durad Branković, had departed to the Republic of Venice, leaving the nation under the control of his son, Grgur Branković. Grgur is appointed as the Ottoman Governor of the Serbian province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373513363#July–September", "title": "1439", "revid": 1373513363, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1442, "year_label": "1442 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Jelena Balšić completes writing the Gorički zbornik manuscripts at her church of St. Mary, on the island of Beška in the Serbian Despotate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360560025#Date_unknown", "title": "1442", "revid": 1360560025, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1448, "year_label": "1448 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 16", "text": "September 16 – General Thomas Kantakouzenos of the Serbian Despotate recaptures Srebrenica and Višegrad from the Kingdom of Bosnia. led by King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367832753#July–September", "title": "1448", "revid": 1367832753, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1455, "year_label": "1455 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – In what is now the nation of Kosovo, the city of Prizren is captured from the Serbian Despotate by the Ottoman Turkish invaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371446040#April–June", "title": "1455", "revid": 1371446040, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1456, "year_label": "1456 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Lazar Branković becomes despot of Serbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371442849#Date_unknown", "title": "1456", "revid": 1371442849, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1459, "year_label": "1459 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – The Despotate of Serbia comes to an end as the despot Stefan Tomašević surrenders the last Serbian city, Smederevo, without a fight.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366548241#April–June", "title": "1459", "revid": 1366548241, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1485, "year_label": "1485 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Vuk Grgurevic Brancovic, the Despot of Serbia under Hungarian rule, dies after a reign of 14 years, bringing the Brankovic dynasty to an end, leaving the office vacant and prompting Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus to find a suitable heir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364736343#April–June", "title": "1485", "revid": 1364736343, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}