The Society of Serbian Letters
(1846-1850)

1846.
21 January The Rules of Procedure (Ustrojenije) of the Society, with the rights and duties of its members, was adopted. (Gl. DSS 1 (1847) VIII – XIII)
26 December Jovan Sterija Popović published the first report on the National Museum titled: Stanje srbskog narodnog muzeuma [State of the Serbian National Museum] (Gl. DSS 1 (1847) 153-183).
29 December Jovan Steijić proposed collecting records and monuments as sources for the history of the Serbian people.
29 December The Geographical-Statistical Dictionary of Serbia, authored by Jovan Gavrilović, was published.
1847.
20 January Avram Petronijević presented a plan for ‘how to obtain a new Serbian history’  (Gl. DSS 2 (1849) 156-160).
8 May Prince Aleksandar issued a decree introducing a new Statute of the Society. (Gl. DSS 1 (1847) V-VII).
20 May Konstantin Branković, editor of Glasnik, clearly defined the Society’s tasks in the overview for Glasnik as follows: a) the study of language both theoretically (lexical and grammatical) and practically (publishing original literary works and translations of the classics); b) promotion of science among the Serbian people (Gl. DSS 1 (1847) I-IV).
20 May The following works were published: The Mountain Wreath by Petar Petrović Nјegoš; the New Testament translated by Vuk Karadžić and  Rat za srpski jezik i pravopis [War for the Serbian Language and Orthography] by Đura Daničić.

Funded by the Society, the first issue of Glasnik of the Serbian Learned Society was published mid-year as was the Description of Antiquities in Mount Athos by Dimitrije Avramović.
1848.
1 January Vladimir Jakšić began Serbia’s first climatological measurements on his family estate in Senjak, using a Six’s thermometer that he had brought from Heidelberg in the spring of 1847. (Gl. DSS 3 (1851), 262–276)
19 February The Society was granted permission by the government of the time to send and receive its books free of charge. ( Gl. DSS 3 (1851) 262-276)
31 October Kosta Cukić proposed lifting the ban on Orthography from 1832, for the members of the Society. (Gl. DSS 2 (1849) 281-282).
31 October The following editions were published: Djelovodni protokol from 21 May 1812 to 5 August 1813; Srbska gramatika [Serbian Grammar], Volume 1, by Petar Ninković; and Gavrilo Popović’s translation of Časovi blagogovjenija (according to Zschokke).
1849.
2 January Đura Daničić was elected a corresponding member.
14 April Atanasije Nikolić proposed the establishment of municipal reading rooms in Serbia.
14 May The Society was organized into five divisions: linguistics, history, law (legal and state sciences, statistics and political economy), philosophy and natural sciences. (Gl. DSS 3 (1851) 277).
14 May The following editions were published: Rječnik srbsko-njemačko-latinski [Serbian-German-Latin Dictionary] by Grigorije Lazić, Životoopisanije slavni lјudi starog i novieg veka [Biographies of Renowned People of the Old and New Ages] by Gavrilo Popović and Misloslovlje ili Logika za mladež [Philosophy or Logic for Young People] by Konstantin Branković.
1850.
8 January Josif Pančić was elected a corresponding member.
5 February The Society acquired the manuscripts of the late Isidor Stojanović – materials relating to recent Serbian history.
23 April The Society approached its corresponding member Cyprien Robert, a professor of Slavonic literature in Paris, to compile a list detailing all books and manuscripts held in the National Library of Paris related to Serbian history. (Gl. DSS 3 (1851) 285).
29 April Dimitrije Tirol reported having received a number of documents relating to the family of Count Đurađ Branković from Katarina Demetrović of Timișoara, who had made them available to the Society (the Archives, DSS, 65)
29 April The following were published: Srbska gramatika [Serbian Grammar] by Jovan Balukčić; Antropologija i psihologija [Anthropology and Psychology], translated by Jovan Stejić; Astronomija i fizika [Astronomy and Physics], translated by Konstantin Branković; and Jestastveno zemljipisanije [Natural Geography], translated by Milovan Spasić.