Country Profile
History
6th century | The Slavic ancestors of present-day Slovenia first settle in the area. |
7th century | The Slavic Duchy of Carantania, the first Slovene state. |
745 | Carantania becomes part of the Frankish empire; the Slavs convert to Christianity and gradually lose their independence. |
c. 1000 | The Freising Manuscripts, the first known writing in the Slovene and Slavic languages in Latin script. |
14th century to 1918 | All the Slovene regions pass into the possession of the Habsburgs, later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. |
1550 and 1584 | The Reformation brings literacy, the first printed book in 1550 and the first Slovene translation of the Bibla in 1584. |
1918 | Formation of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. |
1943 | Federal Peoples' Republic of Yugoslavia (officially declared on the 29th November of 1934). |
April 1990 | First democratic elections. |
23 December 1990 | 88.5% of voters at the referendum vote in favour of an independent Slovenia. |
25 June 1991 | Slovenia officially declares its independence. |
15 January 1992 | The EU officially recognises Slovenia's independence. |
22 may 1992 | Slovenia becomes a founding member of the UN. |
29 March 2004 | Slovenia became a NATO member. |
1 May 2004 | Slovenia became an EU Member State. |
1 January 2007 | Slovenia adopted single European currency - Euro. |
1 January 2008 | Slovenia was the 1st new Member State to assume the Presidency of the Council in the first half of 2008. |
July 2010 | Slovenia became an OECD member. |
25th anniversary of Slovenia's independence
Slovenia is celebrating a quarter of a century of statehood. Get an overview of the two and a half decades since Slovenia gained its independence.