Incumbents

• Ruler of Austria-Hungary
  Austria-Hungary
  Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
  
   – Franz Joseph I
• Ban
  Ban of Croatia
  Ban of Croatia was the title of local rulers and after 1102 viceroys of Croatia. From earliest periods of Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by Bans as a rulers representative and supreme military commander. In the 18th century, Croatian bans eventually become chief government officials in...
  
   of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
  Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
  The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia or Croatia Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was part of the Hungarian Kingdom within the dual Austro-Hungarian state, being within the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen or Transleithania...
  
   – Nikola Tomašić
  Nikola Tomašić
  Nikola Tomašić was a Croatian politician, who served as ban of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. In 1903 he served as Minister without portfolio of Croatian Affairs.-References:*...
  
  

Events

• The Union cholocate factory (present-day Kraš
  Kraš
  Kraš is a Croatian food company based in Zagreb, specializing in confectionery products.The company traces its origins from two factories from the early 20th century - "Union", founded in 1911, the oldest surviving chocolate manufacturer in southeastern Europe - and "Bizjak", founded in 1923, which...
  
  ) opened in Zagreb.
• Slavoljub Penkala and Edmund Moster opened the Penkala-Moster pen and pencil company (present-day TOZ-Penkala) in Zagreb.

Arts and literature

• January 12 – Blagoje Bersa
  Blagoje Bersa
  Blagoje Bersa was a Croatian musical composer of substantial influence....
  
  's opera Oganj (Der Eisenhammer) premiered at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
• Ante Kovačić
  Ante Kovacic
  Ante Kovačić was a Croatian writer.Born to a family of Croatian peasants, Kovačić made his way through law school to become an attorney....
  
   published his novel U registraturi (originally published as a serial in Vienac in 1888).
• Dinko Šimunović
  Dinko Šimunovic
  Dinko Šimunović was a Croatian writer.Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin. He spent most of his life as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of southern Croatia....
  
   published his novel Tuđinac.

Sport

• February 13 – Foundation of HNK Hajduk Split
  HNK Hajduk Split
  HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...
  
   football club.
• April 26 – Foundation of 1. HŠK Građanski football club.

Births

• February 4 – Antun Nalis
  Antun Nalis
  Antun Nalis , aka Tonči Nalis, was a Croatian actor.Antun Nalis was born in Zadar, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. After World War I Zadar became part of Italy, which later helped Nalis to play in Italian movies and portray Italian characters.Nalis began to build his film career...
  
  , actor (d. 2000
  2000 in Croatia
  ----Events from the year 2000 in Croatia.-Events:*January 3 – The 2000 general election held, won by a centre-left coalition of Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Croatian Social Liberal Party...
  
  ).
• April 13 – Ico Hitrec
  Ico Hitrec
  Ivan 'Ico' Hitrec is widely considered as the greatest Croatian football player before World War II.The centre-forward became a legend after scoring twice against then famous Spanish keeper Ricardo Zamora during the first night game in Zagreb between Zagreb and Madrid in 1933...
  
  , footballer (d. 1946).
• October 28 – Rade Končar
  Rade Koncar
  Rade Končar was a Yugoslav Communist leader and legendary World War II resistance fighter.-Biography:...
  
  , communist leader and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1942).

Deaths

• June 18 – Franjo Kuhač
  Franjo Kuhac
  Franjo Ksaver Kuhač was a piano teacher, choral conductor, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing 1,600 folk songs...
  
  , conductor and musicologist (b. 1834).
• July 16 – August Harambašić
  August Harambašic
  August Harambašić was a Croatian writer, poet, publisher, politician and translator from the 19th century.He was born in Donji Miholjac, and studied law in Vienna and Zagreb. Politically he followed the sharp line of Ante Starčević's Croatian Party of Rights, which landed him in jail several times...
  
  , writer, publisher and translator (b. 1861).
• December 17 – Josip Frank
  Josip Frank
  Josip Frank was a Croatian lawyer and politician, a noted representative of the Party of Rights and the Pure Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament, and a vocal advocate of Croatian national independence in Austria-Hungary.- Early life :Frank was born into a Croatian Jewish family, and he...
  
  , politician (b. 1844).