October 19, 1912 – April 22, 1913. The "Battle for Shkodra" took place, where Ottoman and Albanian forces resisted the military actions of Montenegro and Serbia for the occupation of Shkodra.
In Istanbul, Naim Frashëri passed away; he was a poet, Enlightenment thinker, activist in national education, and a figure in the National Renaissance culture.
Muzafer Asqeriu, participant in the communist movement and in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed in the war with the Italian forces.