1911 in Croatia

Incumbents

• Ruler of Austria-Hungary – Franz Joseph I
• Ban of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia – Nikola Tomašić

Events

• The Union chocolate factory (present-day Kraš) 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's opera Oganj (Der Eisenhammer) premiered at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
• Ante Kovačić published his novel U registraturi (originally published as a serial in Vienac in 1888).
• Dinko Šimunović published his novel Tuđinac.

Sport

• February 13 – Foundation of HNK Hajduk Split football club.
• April 26 – Foundation of 1. HŠK Građanski football club.

Births

• February 4 – Antun Nalis, actor (died 2000).
• April 13 – Ico Hitrec, footballer (died 1946).
• October 28 – Rade Končar, communist leader and World War II resistance fighter (died 1942).

Full date unknown

• Slavko Kodrnja, footballer (died 1970).

Deaths

• June 18 – Franjo Kuhač, conductor and musicologist (born 1834).
• July 16 – August Harambašić, writer, publisher and translator (born 1861).
• December 17 – Josip Frank, politician (born 1844).

Full date unknown

• Leo Hönigsberg, architect (born 1861).

References

References

1. Barbieri, Marija. (2 January 2011). "Oganj Blagoja Berse, u povodu stote obljetnice praizvedbe, 12. siječnja 1911. u Zagrebu". Klasika.hr.
2. "Kodrnja Slavko". Reprezentacija.rs.