When World War I broke out in 1914, despite Greece's treaty of alliance with Serbia, both leaders preferred to maintain a neutral stance.

When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in AD 395, Illyria east of the Drinus River ( Drina between Bosnia and Serbia ), including the lands that now form Albania, were administered by the Eastern Empire but were ecclesiastically dependent on Rome.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.

When the former Vardar province was established in 1944, most of its territory was transferred into a separate republic while the northernmost parts of the province remained with Serbia.

When Serbia agreed to only eight of the ten demands, Austria-Hungary declared war on 28 July 1914.

When Bulgaria attacked Serbia, with whom Greece had a treaty of alliance, Venizelos again urged the King to allow Greece's entry into the war, and permitted Entente forces to disembark in Thessaloniki in preparation for a common campaign over the king's objections.

When the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum was presented to Serbia, Kaiser William II ended his cruise of the North Sea and hurried back to Berlin.

When King Dragutin died, his lands were annexed to Serbia.

When Romanian troops approached the capital Sofia, Bulgaria asked for an armistice, resulting in the Treaty of Bucharest, in which Bulgaria had to cede portions of its First Balkan War gains to Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Ottomans.

When Bulgaria called upon Serbia to honor their prewar agreement over northern Macedonia, the Serbs, displeased at being forced by the Great Powers to evacuate Albania, adamantly refused to give up any more territory.

When Turkish forces, moving toward Hungary, reached the borders of Moravian Serbia in the summer of 1390, Milica accepted Ottoman suzerainty.

When he was 6 years old, he was sent to live with his paternal grandparents in Serbia, where he went to school.

When Serbia was overrun in 1915 he joined the Serbian Army in its retreat across Albania to return with the victorius Serbian Army when it liberated Belgrade in the final days of the war.

When in 1909 the possibility of a war against Serbia was in the air he alongside Archduke Franz Ferdinand and General Albori was named as a presumptive army commander.

When IMARO representatives met the Bulgarian Prime-Minister Racho Petrov, he showed them the ultimatums by Serbia, Greece and Romania, which he had just received and which informed him of those countries ’ support for Turkey, in case Bulgaria intervened to support the rebels.

When the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs merged with Kingdom of Serbia, Slovenia got the first real coat of arms, which actually was a heavily modified one from the Serbian Kingdom.

When Dimitrijević heard that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was planning to visit Sarajevo in June 1914, he sent three members of the Young Bosnia group, Gavrilo Princip, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Trifko Grabež and four others from Serbia to assassinate him.

When Romania and Serbia attacked Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire looked to regain its lost territories from Bulgaria.

When the Socialist Party of Serbia lost its majority in parliament, New Democracy, which had previously belonged to the opposition, supported the socialists in gaining a parliamentary majority necessary to form a government.

When he was 14 he was performing in a school play when seen by a casting director from Ealing Studios, who recommended him for a role in Undercover ( 1943 ), a war film about the Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia.

When, however, the police told him he had the choice either to submit to arrest or leave Serbia, he chose the latter.

When the fourth, combined German, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian invasion force attacked Serbia in 1915, the First Army was tasked with defence of the western border of Serbia ( along the river Drina ).

When this Slovenian supermarket chain physically returned to Serbia in 2003, after an absence of more than a decade, many saw Foreign Minister Svilanović's warm greeting speech during the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at Mercator's New Belgrade location as inappropriate considering the personal nature of his ties with the company.

When Louis XIV learnt of the disaster he recalled Marshal Vendôme from northern Italy to take command in Flanders ; but it would be weeks before the command changed hands.

Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, recalled: " When we had experience of a Scottish government, the Queen did seem to revive.

" When he saw Al Jolson singing in The Jazz Singer in 1927, considered the first talkie, Capra recalled his reaction:

When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.

When it is recalled that it was once the task of Owtred to defend the political interests of England against the demands of Avignon, one would more likely see him in agreement with Wycliffe than in opposition.

Ribbentrop quickly learned that Hitler always favoured the most radical solution to any problem, and accordingly tended his advice in that direction as a Ribbentrop aide recalled: When Hitler said ' Grey ', Ribbentrop said ' Black, black, black '.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

When, almost immediately after, Cardinal Farnese was recalled to Rome, Cervini stayed on as Nuntius.

When the first patrol wagon arrived, Inspector Pine recalled that the crowd — most of whom were homosexual — had grown to at least ten times the number of people who were arrested, and they all became very quiet.

Gagarin later recalled, " When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear.

When Bao De was recalled to the capital in 111, to serve as a minister of finance, Zhang continued his literary work at home in Xi ' e.

Brown recalled, " When Mani joined it almost changed overnight.

When a year had passed he was recalled and kept practically a prisoner in his own villa, in expectation of severer measures after a new and more stringent imperial edict arrived, demanding the execution of all Christian clerics, according to reports of it by Christian writers.

Beatles producer George Martin recalled, " When we first worked on Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

When interviewed about his early music career he recalled, " I started on a $ 29 guitar and immediately started putting a band together, writing songs and learning all the contemporary folk songs of the time.

When he heard of this, Helmuth von Moltke, the German Army Chief of Staff, recalled Prittwitz and his deputy to Berlin.

When Deng was temporarily recalled to Beijing, from 1973 – 1976, he also recalled Hu ; but, when Deng was purged again, in 1976, Hu was also purged.

When interviewed about Woodstock by Jeff Tamarkin in 1992, Paul Kantner still recalled it with fondness, whereas Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden had less than rosy memories.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

When parliament refused to rescind the taxes, Governor Berkeley requested to be recalled.

When the Mercenary War burst out in 240 BC, Hamilcar was recalled to command and was instrumental in concluding that conflict successfully.

When the regiment was recalled from the attack on the Federal line at Jonesborough, he carried a wounded comrade out on his back, though he himself was also wounded.

He recalled: " When I was five I wrote a song about the rain because I loved the San Francisco drizzles, and later I wrote about a dog because I couldn't have one, and a clown because my uncle was a circus performer, and when I was eight I wrote a song in the Saddle " about a cowboy in the desert watching the stars at night and thinking about God because I often looked at the stars and tried to picture Heaven ", inspired by seeing Roy Rogers and hearing Dale Evans give her testimony at the civic auditorium.

When the Roman soldiers were recalled to Rome in 410 A. D., there was a substantial Anglo-Saxon ( Germanic ) settlement.