10.06.2020.
152nd anniversary of the death of Prince Mihailo Obrenović
The delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces laid a wreath today at the sarcophagus of Prince Mihailo Obrenović in St. Michael's Cathedral (Saborna crkva) in Belgrade, to mark the 152nd anniversary of his death.
Wreaths were also laid by the State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Zoran Antić, who lead the state ceremony, and the representatives of non-governmental organizations committed to nurturing the traditions of the Serbian Liberation Wars.
The organiser of the commemorative ceremony is the Government of the Republic of Serbia – the Committee for Nurturing the Traditions of Liberation Wars of Serbia.Prince Mihailo Obrenović, who ruled Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and from 1860 to 1868, was one of the most significant Serbian rulers in recent centuries whose rule was marked by the strengthening of the autonomy of the Pashalik of Belgrade within the Ottoman Empire, as well as the establishment of a series of important cultural, educational and scientific institutions. He was a strong advocate of the creation of a union of the Christian states of the Balkans with the aim of their final and complete liberation from the Ottoman rule. He was tragically killed in the assassination in Topčider on 10th June 1868.
