1946 in Albania explained

The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the People's Republic of Albania.

Incumbents

• President

Omer Nishani, Chairman of the Presidium of the Constituent Assembly

• Prime Minister

Enver Hoxha, Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

Events

January

• 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]

Notes and References

1. 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