Beginning of the Croatian Peasant Rebellion

Date: September 4, 1920 • Location: Križ, Croatia

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1920.

Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

Križ is a village and a municipality of western Moslavina, located southeast from Zagreb, near Ivanić-Grad. In the 2011 Croatian census, the population of the Križ municipality numbers 6,963 people, with 1,821 residents in the village itself.