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08.01. - 14.01.

12/02/1841

In Kovilj LAZA KOSTIĆ was born, the doctor of law, the erudite person of great culture and European views, the polyglot who was the first among the Serbs to translate Shakespeare, Heine and Homer, Bulverde and Dernburg, the writer of plays, comedies, and three books of poems, the war reporter for some foreign newspapers from the uprising in Hercegovina and Serbian-Turkish war, the editor of the magazine Srpska nezavisnost (Serbian independence) in Belgrade, and the gazette at Cetinje Glas Crnogorca (Voice of Montenegrin). He came to live in Sombor in 1895 when he married Julijana Palanački, and since 1901, until he died, he was the chairman of the Serbian Reading-Room, and here he wrote for Sombor and for Serbian poetry the immortal Santa Maria della Salute. He was buried at the Great Orthodox Cemetery in Sombor on 12 December 1910, since he died in Vienna three days before.

13/02/1809

In Sombor TRIFUN ATANACKOVIĆ was born, lawyer by his education, and public worker by his tendency. Besides being a lawyer, he was also, for ten years, a teacher at The Preparatory School, since in 1831 it was without any teachers, and thus saved it from closing down. In the year of 1842 he was appointed the subdistrict prefect of the Backa-Bodrog District; three years later he was among 72 founders of the Serbian Reading-Room. In Hungarian uprising in 1848-49 he was the memeber of the Temporary Board of the Backa District, and the year later became the president of the Administrative Board of the Serbian Theatre in Sombor. He was elected the memeber of Serbian Political Parliament in Sremski Karlovci in 1861, of Hungarian Parliament, and for the captain of Sombor and the royal advisor, after which he was retired. He died in Sombor on 05 June 1878.

13/02/1895

At the stairs of the newly built Preparatory school in Sombor, with the bagpipes in his hands ĐURA SUBOTIN died, the man who was registerd in the birth registry as „the musician from Crvenka suburb“. He was born in 1842 to the farming family, and was famous for his playing, so „he was bringing gold coins even from Bosnia“ and earned a nice property, restaurant and bucher’s shop, and put his four children on the right track; three of them worked in education, while his son Triva, called Lala, with success continued his father’s craft. 

14/02/1840

In Sombor MILKA GRGUROVA was born, for a number of years the greatest tragedienne of the Romantic period in Serbian acting, because of which she was called the „Serbian Sarah Bernard“. She stepped on the stage for the first time in Sombor, and moved from it in her old age in Belgrade, where she died on 25 March 1924. That long way of hers was marked by numerous places and roles by which she won the audience.

16/02/1887

In Mošorin ISIDORA SEKULIĆ was born, prose writer, novelist, essayist, literary and art critic of extensive education and culture, passionate traveller and person who wrote a lot about it, portraitist of our fates, personalities and characters, polyglot and translator, academician. She graduated from the Teacher-Training School in Sombor in the school year 1893/94. She died in Belgrade in 1958.

7/02/1749

Empress Maria Theresa signed a Charter, granting Sombor the rank of Free and Royal City, after more than a three-year struggle for liberty, more precisely, for regaining liberties lost in 1745 by the abolition of military town. That sign was very expensive: 150.000 forints in gold was paid to the Court treasury. However, in spite of the very high price they had to pay for the privilegy, that was a decisive moment in the history of Sombor, that set it on the road to civil society, fortune, power, importance and respect that it reached in the following ages. 

 

17/02/1871

In Hrupjele near Trebinje, JOVAN DUČIĆ was born, poet, writer of his numerous travels and aphorisms, essayist, and also a career diplomat, who crossed his roads with Sombor by graduating from the Preparatory School in the school year 1892/93. From his Sombor days there will always remain the prescient verses of his own fate, which he wrote in the album of Pava Kolarić from Sombor: Kada me mlada nestane u svetu / Kad s lire sreće jekne zadnji zvon / Sjeti se na me, milo janje moje / I tiho reci - to je bio on. (When I young disappear from this world / When from the lyre of happiness the last tone sounds / Remember me, my little / And whisper – that was him.) He died in the faraway United States of America, in Geri on 7 April 1943, and he was buried in the magnificent monument at Leutar.

 

18/02/1766

The Holy Trinity Square was set on fire in which, because of the hard wind, untrained and unequipped firemen „only 11 houses“ were burnt down , according to the annalist. Since then, the chimney sweep service was introduced, with the regular inspection of chimneys and paying for it at the price of 10 forints a year. Much more later, in 1813, chimney sweepers will get their own guild, because before that, they were organized as the part of others.