Saint Andrew's Day Assembly
The Saint Andrew's Day Assembly was the name of a Serbian parliament which was in session from to 29 January 1859 in the Great Brewery in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia. There were a total of 432 representatives who were appointed by the Prince and were not elected.
After the Ottoman Empire, the nominal suzerain of the Principality of Serbia at the time, was forced by the Concert of Europe to implement internal reforms, the then Prince of Serbia Alexander Karađorđević convened parliament due to pressure from domestic opposition. At the end of the 1850s, the monarch was very unpopular, which was exploited by two dominant political groups, the Liberals and the Defenders of the Constitution. At the session of the assembly, the groups proposed for Alexander to abdicate and to invite former Prince Miloš Obrenović to assume the throne again.
