1946 in Albania
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List of years in Albania
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the People's Republic of Albania .
Incumbents
[edit ]- President: Omer Nishani, Chairman of the Presidium of the Constituent Assembly
- Prime Minister: Enver Hoxha, Chairmen of the Council of Ministers
Events
[edit ]January
[edit ]- January 11 - The People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed at noon (1100 GMT), with Communist leader Enver Hoxha as the nation's Prime Minister. Two months later, a new constitution proclaimed Hoxha's Albanian Workers Party to be the sole force, and Marxism–Leninism as the ideology, of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ William B. Simons, The Constitutions of the Communist World (Sijthoff and Noordhoff, 1980), p2; "Albania Is Proclaimed A 'Popular Republic'", Charleston (WV) Gazette, January 12, 1946, p1
