-On April 23, 1872, the linguist, historian, bibliographer, teacher, translator Gjergj Pekmezi was born. He was among the first Albanians to attain a degree in 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 passed away 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. After the battle in Suhareka, Ottoman forces entered Prizren and blockaded the city. A curfew was declared, mass arrests and punishments began. Albania League of Prizren was the first Pan-Albanian organized fight for independence after centuries of Ottoman rule

-On April 23, 1937, the law on crimes against social and economic order was declared. It aimed at stopping the spread of communist ideas and movements in Albania.

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