10.06.2019.
The 151st Anniversary of the death of Prince Mihailo Obrenović marked
A delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces has laid today a wreath near the sarcophagus of Prince Mihalo Obrenović in the Belgrade Cathedral, marking the 151st anniversary of his death.
Wreaths were laid at the sarcophagus with state and military honours by State Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, Zoran Antić, who led the state ceremony, as well as the associations dedicated to cultivating the traditions of the Serbian liberation wars.The organiser of the state ceremony is the Committee for Preserving the Traditions of Serbian Liberation Wars.
Prince Mihailo Obrenović, who ruled Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and from 1860 to 1868, was one of the most important medieval and early modern Serbian rulers whose reign was marked by the strengthening of the autonomy of the Pashaluk of Belgrade within the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of a number of significant institutions of culture, education and science. He was a great advocate of the creation of an alliance of Christian states in the Balkans, with the goal of their final and complete liberation from the Ottoman authorities. He was assassinated in Topčider on 10th June 1868.
