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See also:ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903) , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Servia, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:August 1876. On the 6th of See also:March 1889 his See also:father, King See also:Milan, abdicated and proclaimed him king of Servia under a regency until he should attain his See also:majority at eighteen years of See also:age. King Alexander, on the 13th of See also:April 1893, being then in his seventeenth See also:year, made his notable first coup d'etat, proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their See also:government, and took the royal authority into his own hands. His See also:action was popular, and was rendered still more so by his See also:appointment of a See also:radical See also:ministry. In May 1894 King Alexander, by another coup d'etat, abolished the liberal constitution of 1889 and restored the conservative one of 1869. His attitude during the Turco-See also:Greek See also:war of 1897 was one of strict See also:neutrality. In 1898 he appointed his father See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the Servian See also:army, and from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, or rather from his return to Servia in 1894 until 1900, ex-king Milan was regarded as the de facto ruler of the See also:country. But while, during the summer of 1900, Milan was away from Servia taking See also:waters in See also:Carlsbad; and making arrangements to secure the See also:hand of a See also:German princess for his son, and while the
premier, Dr Vladan Dyorevich, was visiting the See also:Paris Universal See also:Exhibition, King Alexander suddenly announced to the See also:people of Servia his engagement to Mme Draga Mashin, a widow, formerly a See also:lady-in-waiting to See also:Queen Natalie. The projected See also:union aroused See also:great opposition at first. Ex-King Milan resigned his See also:post; so did the government; and King Alexander had great difficulty in forming a new See also:cabinet. But the opposition subsided some-what on the publication of See also:Tsar See also:Nicholas's congratulations to the king on his engagement and of his See also:acceptance to See also:act as the See also:principal See also:witness at the See also:wedding. The See also:marriage was then duly celebrated on the 5th of August 1900. Still this union was unpopular and weakened the position of King Alexander in the army and the country. He tried to reconcile See also:political parties by granting from his own initiative a liberal constitution (April 6, 1901), introducing for the first time in the constitutional See also:history of Servia the See also:system of two See also:chambers (skupshtina and See also:senate). This did in a certain measure reconcile the political parties, but did not reconcile the army, which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumours that one of the two unpopular See also:brothers of Queen Draga, See also:Lieutenant Nicodiye, was to be proclaimed See also:heir-apparent to the See also:throne. Meanwhile the See also:independence of the senate and of the See also:council of See also:state caused growing irritation to King Alexander, which led him to another coup d'etat. He suspended (March 1903) the constitution for See also:half an See also:hour, time enough to publish the decrees by which the old senators and councillors of state were dismissed and replaced by new ones. This arbitrary act naturally increased the dissatisfaction in the country. The See also:general impression was that inasmuch as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple, and inasmuch as the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's See also:brother as the heir to the throne. Apparently to prevent this, but in reality to replace Alexander Obrenovich by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Karageorgevich, a military See also:conspiracy was organized. The conspirators penetrated into the See also:palace and savagely murdered King Alexander and Queen Draga in the See also:early See also:morning of the 11th of See also:June 1903. (C.
End of Article: ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
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