Perović Cuca and assisted by foreign powers. Danilo's loyals managed to assassinate Perović in Constantinople but the resistance to the Prince was not over. Danilo's Code In domestic issues, Danilo was an authoritarian ruler. As it happened, the centralization of his power contributed to development of the modern functions of the state. Danilo used the Law of Petar I Petrović-Njegoš as an inspiration for his own General Law of the Land from 1855 (Zakonik Danila Prvog). Danilo's Code was based on the Montenegrin traditions and customs and it is considered to be the first national constitution in Montenegrin history. It also stated rules, protected privacy and banned warring on the Austrian Coast (Bay of Kotor). Danilo organized the first census in Montenegro in 1855 and ordered that all Montenegrin households be recorded. According to the census, Montenegro's population was 80,000. Danilo established a tax plan, which was accepted by all tribes of Montenegro and the Hills except the Kuči; out of fear for conflict, Danilo at first did not turn to this problem, until in 1856, when he sent his brother, commander (vojvoda) Mirko to punish the Kuči. Some 247 people were killed, and the Kuči were thus forced to pay taxes as did other tribes. Another feud involved the Bjelopavlići clan, but the damage was limited by giving high ranks to the rebel leaders of the clan. Personal life On 12 January 1855 at Njeguši he married Darinka Kvekić, who was born in a wealthy Serbian merchant family in Trieste on December 31, 1837 and died on February 14, 1892), daughter of Marko Kvekić and wife Jelisaveta Mirković. They had one daughter, Olga (Cetinje, March 19, 1859 - Venice, September 21, 1896), who never married. Assassination and successor Danilo was assassinated in August 1860, as he was boarding a ship at the port of Kotor. The assassin was Todor Kadić from the Bjelopavlići clan. The Prince (Knjaz) Nikola, Danilo's nephew, succeeded Danilo as the next secular Prince of Montenegro. References Sources See also Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje 1826 births 1860 deaths 19th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops People from Cetinje People of the Principality of Montenegro Prince-bishops of Montenegro 19th-century monarchs in Europe 19th-century Serbian people Petrović-Njegoš dynasty Rulers of Montenegro Assassinated Montenegrin people 19th-century Montenegrin people Montenegrin nobility Burials at Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches Serbs of Montenegro