Timeline

Panayot Volov is born in Shumen, Ottoman Empire, to the master shoemaker Vicho Simeonov and Vasilka. The family moves from the saddlers' market street to the Choban quarter - into the house that is a museum today.

Studies at the Dolnomahlensko school under Iliya R. Blaskov, then at the Mutual and Boys' secondary schools in Shumen under Dobri Voynikov and Todor Ikonomov.

Continues education in Bucharest, Bolgrad, Odessa, and Nikolaev. In Nikolaev he lives at the South Slavic Boarding School and attends the Alexander Gymnasium, but leaves six months before graduation due to illness.

Returns to Shumen and is appointed head teacher and director of the Boys' secondary school.

Attends a BRCC meeting in Bucharest. Elected chairman of the Shumen Private Revolutionary Committee.

Guides Russian Colonel Georgiy Bobrikov on secret reconnaissance tours of Ottoman fortifications.

Arrested over a conflict with foreign engineers. Leads a protest defending Vasilka Konstantinova.

Participates in preparation for the Stara Zagora Uprising. Appointed apostle for Lovech District. Crosses the Danube through Nikopol.

Co-founds the Giurgiu Revolutionary Committee with Zaimov, Obretenov, and Karaminkov-Bunito.

The Oborishte Assembly - final meeting of the apostles before the uprising.

The April Uprising erupts. Volov is in Panagyurishte, forms a detachment of 150 men.

Volov leads military operations at Strelcha, Klisura, and Zli Dol. Deploys a cherry-tree cannon. Arrives to help besieged Klisura with 60–65 men.

Retreat toward the Troyan Balkans. The band dwindles from 100 to 12 men. Kableshkov is captured near Troyan.

Panayot Volov dies near Byala in the Ruse region - wounded after betrayal, drowns in the Yantra River at age 26. The New Style date, 7 June, is marked as Volov Day.

Russo-Turkish War - a direct consequence of the April Uprising.

Volov's birthplace at 16 Tsar Osvoboditel Street in Shumen becomes a house-museum. In 1976, for the centenary of the April Uprising, an exhibition hall opens beside it.