Traces
15.06.1778.
In Sombor at the Bačka District Assembly, the CHARTER OF MARIA THERESA TO THE TRADES OF SOMBOR, was ceremoniously read out and handed. According to the Charter, the association was obliged to purchase the guild flag; to introduce the membership fee; fit a box for placing the guild’s documentation; to insure that all the traders attend church services; to improve business honour, the old to be good examples to the young; they were allowed to accept traders from other towns as their members, but to try to stop illegal business, as well as to help their members solving their business problems. The request was, in Latin, submitted by Orthodox traders.
15.06.1875.
In Sombor STEFAN (STEVAN) ILKIĆ was born, who graduated from the Preparatory School in Sombor and who attended the Academy in Kiev, which he had to abandon because of illness. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century he was a prominent factor among the Serbs in Sombor: he was a teacher in the Primary Orthodox School, clerk of the Serbian Reading-Room and Charitable Cooperative of the Serbian Women of Sombor, vice president of the Serbian Choral Company Sombor and one of the founders of the Serbian Library Sombor. He was an associate of the School Magazine, coeditor of the Sloga and editor of the Great Serbian Illustrated Calendar in 1908, after which he entered a monastic order in Kikinda, and later was a monk in the St. Steven monastery in Sombor. Between the wars he was a director of the Town Library of Sombor (1921-1941), editor and publisher of the Spiritual Guard, the magazine for religious education, monastic and ecclesiastical life. He died in Sombor, on 9 May 1963.
15.06.1889.
In Sombor, in the organization of the Sport Association of Sombor, a unique athletic event was held, called the COMPETING HOLIDAY, where shot putters, pole vaulters, high jumpers, 400 and 800m hurdlers and 800m runners took part. Not even one result or winner in some of the disciplines of that event was recorded. It is interesting that two weeks before the event there was a competition of the members of the Sport Association of Sombor in 32km walk. As time went by, the athletic competitions increased in number, and they were particularly accepted by the secondary school youth.
17.06.1883.
The consecration of the 53.5m high tower of the Church of the Holy Trinity was done. The tower was restored by contractor Karoly Firl and carpenter and roof maker Maćaš Zelerin, and the cross was put at the tower top by Jozsef Kripner, carpenter, all of them from Budapest. A chronicler noted that there was a note put in the apple at the top of the tower which said: Praised Jesus Christ! The parson of Sombor, priest Đula Feher, with the help of communioners consecrated the cross – a symbol of our salvation. The supreme shepherd above more than two hundred million of worshippers of that time was holy father Leo XIII, 259th pope. The apostolic king of Hungary was his royal highness Emperor Franc Jozsef I… In a very long list of those who deserved to be on it were also Mihaly Hofman, mayor, Janos Cedler, main captain… and all the senators of Sombor.
20.06.1749.
The representatives of the Magistrate, of Sombor, which had just been granted the rank of Free and Royal City, were for the first time invited to the Assembly in Pozsun, by Eszterhazi Ferenc “of Galanta”. Using the opportunity to congratulate them to the great gift granted by Empress Maria Theresa, he sent them best wishes for fast progress, expressing his favour.
