On April 23, 1872, the linguist, historian, bibliographer, teacher, translator Gjergj Pekmezi was born, one of the first Albanian diplomats of the University of Vienna. With his help in 1903, the Chair of the Albanian Language at the Orientalist Institute of Vienna was founded in the Austrian capital. His masterpiece remains the “Grammar of the Albanian language” which was published in 1908. Gjergj Pekmezi died in 1938, leaving in manuscript several studies and a very rich correspondence with Albanian patriots and the most prominent albanologists of the time.

April 23, 1881 marks the fall of the Albanian League of Prizren, founded on July 10, 1878 as an all nation movement to free from the Ottoman rule. After the battle of Suhareka, the Ottoman Turkish forces entered Prizren and besieged the city. A curfew was declared, mass arrests and the punishments began.

On April 23, 1937, the law on crimes against social and economic order was announced by the monarchic government, aiming at stopping the spread of free democratic ideas and movements in Albania.

On April 23, 1993, for the first time in Albania, under the Science and Technology Committee, was opened the patent office, for the protection of technological inventions and industrial design of Albanian and foreign authorship.

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