The pedagogue and publicist Qiriazi Gjerasim was born in Manstir, on 18th October, 1861. Together with his sisters, he opened the first Albanian school for girls in Korça, sets up and directed the patriotic society “Vllazëria”. For his patriotic activity was persecuted by the Ottomans.
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1 April 1835, died Bartolomeo Pino, the Italian sculptor and painter
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1 April 1933, the Italy stopped Tirana’s payment of loan installment; the country was plunged in crisis
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1 April 1929, entered in force the first Penal Code in Albania
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1 April 1967, began the action for the construction of the road in the Great Highland

