On February 21, 1272, Charles of Anjou, after the pact he made with the Albanian princes, was proclaimed king of Naples and Albania. Durrës, Berat, Janina, and Butrint entered the new kingdom.

February 21, 1914 The German prince, Wilhelm von Wied, a German army officer and a close friend of Queen Elisabeth of Romania, accepts the throne of Albania proposed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary.

On February 21, 1918, Frano Ilia, clergyman, Archbishop of Shkodër, was born in Juban of Shkodër. He interceded for the reconciliation of enmities between people. Frano Ilia passed away in Shkodër on October 22, 1997.

On February 21, 1945, the first priest in Albania, Dom Lazër Shantoja, was shot. The clergyman, writer, essayist, translator, enlightened priest, man of culture, literature and art, was shot in the desert fields of Tirana.

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