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| 1897 |
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| Following Greece's defeat at the hands of the Ottomans, the Porte began to favor the Hellenist cause in Macedonia, seeing a weaker threat from Greece than from Bulgarian and Serbian sympathizers. | 1 |
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| 1901 |
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| Arrest of Macedonian leaders, after the assassination of certain Romanians and acute tension between Bulgaria and Romania. They were tried, but acquitted. | 2 |
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| 1902 |
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| In return for a Russian loan, Bulgaria curtailed its support of Macedonian revolutionaries and accepted a Serbian priest as administrator of the Skopje diocese, a blow to the power of the exarch. | 3 |
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| Oct. 8 |
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| Despite such hindrances, the Supreme Macedonian Committee launched a raid in Gorna Djumaya with little result in Macedonia itself. Russia, however, forced both Serbia and Bulgaria to disavow the rebels. | 4 |
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