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| 1931, June |
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| An Italian loan, spread over ten years and subject to Italian supervision, established Italian economic control of the country. This was essential to the Albanian economy, the least developed in Europe. Industrial production in 1938 was only 4.4 percent of total output, and agricultural production continually failed to meet domestic requirements, generating chronic budget and trade deficits. | 1 |
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| 1932 |
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| King Zog rejected a proposal for a customs union with Italy; beginning of Albanian opposition to too great extension of Italian influence. | 2 |
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| 1934, June 23 |
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| After further disputes an Italian fleet suddenly appeared at Durazzo and frightened the government into submission. The Italian control of the army was strengthened, Italians were given the right to colonize certain areas, and so on. | 3 |
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| 1936, March 19 |
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| Further agreements between Italy and Albania provided for even closer financial and trade relations. | 4 |
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| 1937, April |
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| Over the opposition of the Greek government, the patriarch of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) decreed the autocephalous status of the Albanian Orthodox Church. | 5 |
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| May 15–19 |
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| Insurrection of the Muslims in the southern sections. The immediate cause was the government's decree forbidding the veiling of women, but in the larger sense it was another expression of discontent with King Zog's dictatorial rule. | 6 |
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