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Events on Wednesday 25 August 1886 1
1886Bulgarian Crisis abdication of Alexander of BattenbergRussian-backed officers force the Bulgarian prince to abdicateA group of pro-Russian army officers kidnapped Prince Alexander of Battenberg and forced him to sign an abdication, plunging Bulgaria into a political crisis. Alexander briefly returned but resigned for good within weeks amid Russian opposition to his rule. The crisis strained relations between Russia and Austria-Hungary and fed into wider Balkan instability.