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| 1988 | Rally Communist Party |  |
| Holds mass rallies, "Meetings of Truth", of extreme Serb nationalists from Kosovo
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| 19th Oct Belgrade Holds a nationalist rally in Belgrade, over 1 million Serbs attend
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| 1988 | Rebellion | |
| 5th Oct Vojvodnia Overturns Communist leaders in the bloodless, "yogurt revolution"
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| 1990 | League of Communists of Kosovo | |
| Dec Kosovo The League of Communists of Kosovo, with its assembly and government, is formally disbanded.
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| 1990 | President | |
| 9th Dec Appointed President of Serbia, after Serbia's 1st free elections in over 50 years
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| 1990 | Rule of Kosovo | |
| Kosovo With Slobodan Milosevic rising to power on a surge of national awakening in Serbia, Belgrade scraps the autonomy of the increasingly restive Kosovo
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| 2nd July Kosovo Legislators of the dissolved provincial parliament declare independence from Serbia, an act which the international community ignores
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| Dec Kosovo Slobodan Milosevic revokes the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina and replaces locally chosen leaders with his sympathizers
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| Dec Kosovo The League of Communists of Kosovo, with its assembly and government, is formally disbanded.
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| 1990 | Rule of Vojvodina | |
| Dec Vojvodina Slobodan Milosevic revokes the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina and replaces locally chosen leaders with his sympathizers
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| 1991 | Capture | |
| Slavonia Serb forces capture parts of Slavonia from Croatia
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| 1991 | Dayton Accords | |
| Dayton Under the treaty of Dayton Serbia agrees to return Vukovar to Croatia
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| 1991 | Independence | |
| 1st Mar Bosnia's Muslims and Croats vote for independence in referendum boycotted by Serbs
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| 6th April War breaks out between the Bosnian government and local Serbs, who start 1992-1995 siege of capital Sarajevo
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| 25th June Croatia and Slovenia proclaim independence.
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| Dec In Bosnia, the most ethnically mixed Yugoslav republic, the Serb minority holds an unofficial referendum opposing separation from Yugoslavia
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| Dec Local Serb leaders proclaim a new republic separate from Bosnia
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| 19th Dec Krajina Rebel Serbs declare independence in the Krajina region which makes up almost a third of Croatia
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| 1991 | Invasion of Croatia | |
| June Yugoslav tanks fail to crush Slovenian independence, fighting begins in Croatia between Croats and ethnic Serbs
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| 1991 | Invasion of Slovenia | |
| June Yugoslav tanks fail to crush Slovenian independence, fighting begins in Croatia between Croats and ethnic Serbs
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| 1991 | Rule of Vukovar | |
| Dayton Under the treaty of Dayton Serbia agrees to return Vukovar to Croatia
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| 1991 | Siege of Sarajevo | |
| 6th April Sarajevo War breaks out between the Bosnian government and local Serbs, who start 1992-1995 siege of capital Sarajevo
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| 1991 | Siege of Vukovar | |
| Vukovar Serbia captures Vukovar leaving 15,000 dead & half a million refugees
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| Vukovar The 1st example of "ethnic cleansing"
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| 1991 | Treaty of Dayton Accord | |
| Dayton Under the treaty of Dayton Serbia agrees to return Vukovar to Croatia
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| 1992 | Independence | |
| UN forces enter Croatia and fighting subsides
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| 1993 | Independence | |
| Bosnian peace efforts fail, war breaks out between Muslims and Croats, previously allied against Serbs
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| 1994 | Bombing of Ubdina | |
| 21st Nov Ubdina NATO bombs the Ubdina air base in the Serb held Krajiina region
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| 1994 | Siege of Bihac | |
| 21st Nov Bihac Bosnian & Croat Serb forces attack the Muslim town of Bihac
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| 1995 | Bombing of Bosnia | |
| 30th Aug NATO planes attack Bosnian Serb ammunition and fuel dumps, the largest military action thus far in NATO's 46-year history
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| 1995 | Conference of Daytona | |
| 21st Nov Dayton Following NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, Milosevic joins the Presidents of Bosnia and Croatia in a peace agreement at the US sponsored talks at Dayton, Ohio.
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| 21st Nov Dayton Held in the shadow of the massacre in the Srebrenica safe zone, and the indictments against the main military and government leaders of Bosnian Serbs before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
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| 21st Nov Dayton The main participants from the region are Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (representing the Bosnian Serb interests due to absence of Karadzic), Croatian President Franjo Tudman, and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic with Bosnian Foreign Minis
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| 1995 | Dayton Accords | |
| 12th Oct A US peace accord is agreed at Paris & signed outside Dayton, Ohio, ending 43 months of savage, genocidal warfare in which 250,000 had died and nearly 2 million lost their homes
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| 21st Nov Daytona The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military
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| 21st Nov Dayton The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military
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| 21st Nov Dayton The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, a peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio
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| 12th Dec Paris 50,000 NATO troops, including Russians and 20,000 Americans, begin to monitor the fragile peace in December
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| 12th Dec Paris The Dayton accords are signed in Paris
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| 12th Dec Paris The Dayton Accords provide for a virtual partitioning of Bosnia and the deployment of a multinational implementation force (IFOR) to keep the warring factions apart and protect war-crimes investigators
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| 12th Dec Paris The Dayton accords put an end to the three and a half year long war in Bosnia, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia
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| 12th Dec Paris The political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its structure of government are agreed upon as part the constitution that makes up Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement concluded at Dayton
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| 12th Dec Paris Under the Dayton Accords Aanyone under indictment for war crimes is be barred from public office after scheduled elections, all parties must cooperate with the International War Crimes Tribunal, and Sarajevo will be reunified under Bosnia
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| 1995 | Independence | |
| Two major thrusts by Croatian forces recover most of the Serb-held territory and 150,000 Serbs flee to Serbia
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| 1995 | Operation Deliberate Force | |
| Aug The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military
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| 1995 | Operation Storm | |
| Aug The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military
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| 1995 | Rule of Bosnia | |
| 12th Dec Paris The Dayton Accords provide for a virtual partitioning of Bosnia and the deployment of a multinational implementation force (IFOR) to keep the warring factions apart and protect war-crimes investigators
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| 1995 | Rule of Sarajevo | |
| 12th Dec Sarajevo Under the Dayton Accords Aanyone under indictment for war crimes is be barred from public office after scheduled elections, all parties must cooperate with the International War Crimes Tribunal, and Sarajevo will be reunified under Bosnia
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| 1995 | Siege of Krajina | |
| 4th Aug Krajina Croatian forces invade the Serbian-held territory of Krajina seized by the Serbs in 1990
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| 7th Aug Krajina Croatia retakes Krajina, and force 150,000 Serb refugees to flee, heightening fears that the conflict will spread
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| 1995 | Siege of Sarajevo | |
| Mar Sarajevo NATO bombers strike at Serbian ammunition dumps the Serbs take nearly 200 members of the UN peacekeeping force hostage for more than 2 weeks
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| Mar Sarajevo Serb forces resume their attacks on Sarajevo
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| 5th Sep Sarajevo Serb forces resume their attacks on Sarajevo
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| 12th Oct Sarajevo A new cease-fire takes effect, electricity is restored in Sarajevo, the three major participants (Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia) initial a US ceasefire
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| 12th Oct Sarajevo A US peace accord is agreed at Paris & signed outside Dayton, Ohio, ending 43 months of savage, genocidal warfare in which 250,000 had died and nearly 2 million lost their homes
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| 12th Dec Sarajevo Under the Dayton Accords Aanyone under indictment for war crimes is be barred from public office after scheduled elections, all parties must cooperate with the International War Crimes Tribunal, and Sarajevo will be reunified under Bosnia
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| 1995 | Siege of Srebrenica | |
| 11th July Srebrenica The Drina Battalion of Bosnian Serbs overruns the UN-protected "safe area" of Srebrenica
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| 1996 | Kosovo Liberation Army | |
| 22nd April Kosovo 4 attacks on Serbian civilians and security personnel are carried out virtually simultaneously in Kosovo, an organization calling itself the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) claims responsibility
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| 1996 | Rebellion | |
| 22nd April Kosovo 4 attacks on Serbian civilians and security personnel are carried out virtually simultaneously in Kosovo, an organization calling itself the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) claims responsibility
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| 1996 | Rule of Kosovo | |
| 22nd April Kosovo 4 attacks on Serbian civilians and security personnel are carried out virtually simultaneously in Kosovo, an organization calling itself the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) claims responsibility
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| 1997 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
| 23rd July Belgrade Milosevic is promoted to the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Serbia and Montenegro since its inception in April 1992)
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| 1997 | Inauguration | |
| 23rd July Belgrade Inaugurated President of Yugoslavia
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| 1997 | President | |
| 23rd July Milosevic is promoted to the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Serbia and Montenegro since its inception in April 1992)
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| 1998 | Kosovo Liberation Army | |
| Kosovo The guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army UCK launches attacks on police, military and Serb civilians
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| 1998 | Rule of Kosovo | |
| Kosovo After years of non-violent resistance through parallel institutions under the guidance of the Ibrahim Rugova, the extremist Kosovo Albanians take the initiative, the Kosovo Liberation Army UCK launches attacks on police, military and Serb civilians
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| Kosovo The guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army UCK launches attacks on police, military and Serb civilians
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| 1999 | Bombing of Yugoslavia | |
| Kosovo After 78 days Belgrade capitulates and orders its troops out of Kosovo, making room for a NATO-led peacekeeping mission, but only after wrangling out a UN resolution guaranteeing it sovereignty over Kosovo
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| 24th Mar Kosovo An escalation of violence in Kosovo produces huge waves of refugees and NATO launches an aerial bombing campaign against Yugoslavia to stop the bloodshed and the exodus
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| 24th Mar Kosovo NATO's bombing campaign lasted from March 24 to June 11, 1999, involving up to 1,000 aircraft operating mainly from bases in Italy and aircraft carriers stationed in the Adriatic
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| 24th Mar Kosovo On the ground, the ethnic cleansing campaign by the Serbians is stepped up and within a week of the war starting, over 300,000 Kosovo Albanians had fled into neighboring Albania and Macedonia, with many thousands more displaced within Kosovo
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| 24th Mar Kosovo Yugoslavia is bombed so Serbian troops would have to leave Kosovo and be replaced by international peacekeepers in order to ensure that the Albanian refugees could return to their homes
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| May Kosovo NATO aircraft attack an Albanian refugee convoy, believing it was a Yugoslav military convoy, killing around 50 people, NATO admits its mistake 5 days later, but the Serbs accused NATO of deliberately attacking the refugees
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| 7th May Belgrade NATO bombs hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and outraging Chinese public opinion
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| 1999 | Independence | |
| 18th Mar Kosovo The Serbian assembly accepts the principle of autonomy for Kosovo
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| 1999 | Rambouillet Accords | |
| Rambouillet Talks of Albanian leaders and Belgrade - mediated in Rambouillet, near Paris by the Contact Group of big powers - fail
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| 18th Mar Rambouillet A force of 30,000 NATO troops to maintain order in Kosovo
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| 18th Mar Rambouillet The Rambouillet Accords, the Serbian and Russian delegations refuse to sign, calls for the NATO administration of Kosovo as an autonomous province within Yugoslavia
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| 1999 | Rule of Kosovo | |
| Kosovo After 78 days Belgrade capitulates and orders its troops out of Kosovo, making room for a NATO-led peacekeeping mission, but only after wrangling out a UN resolution guaranteeing it sovereignty over Kosovo
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| Kosovo Milosevic's security apparatus cracks down on the Kosovo rebels with disproportionate force, effectively starting a war
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| 18th Mar Kosovo The Rambouillet Accords, the Serbian and Russian delegations refuse to sign, calls for the NATO administration of Kosovo as an autonomous province within Yugoslavia
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| 18th Mar Kosovo The Serbian assembly accepts the principle of autonomy for Kosovo
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| 24th Mar Kosovo On the ground, the ethnic cleansing campaign by the Serbians is stepped up and within a week of the war starting, over 300,000 Kosovo Albanians had fled into neighboring Albania and Macedonia, with many thousands more displaced within Kosovo
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| 24th Mar Kosovo Yugoslavia is bombed so Serbian troops would have to leave Kosovo and be replaced by international peacekeepers in order to ensure that the Albanian refugees could return to their homes
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| April Kosovo The United Nations reports that 850,000 people-the vast majority of them Albanians-had fled their homes in Kosovo
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| 11th June Kosovo The war ends, leaving Kosovo in chaos and Yugoslavia as a whole facing an unknown future
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| 12th June Kosovo Milosevic accepts NATO conditions, KFOR enters Kosovo, a NATO force, which had been preparing to conduct combat operations but in the end its mission is only peacekeeping
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| 1999 | Siege of Kosovo | |
| 3rd June Kosovo Announces intention to end the war in Kosovo
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| 9th June Kosovo Serb generals sign a military pact agreeing terms for withdrawal
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| 11th June Kosovo The war ends, leaving Kosovo in chaos and Yugoslavia as a whole facing an unknown future
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| 12th June Kosovo Milosevic accepts NATO conditions, KFOR enters Kosovo, a NATO force, which had been preparing to conduct combat operations but in the end its mission is only peacekeeping
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| 2004 | Siege of Kosovo | |
| 17th Mar Kosovo Kosovo-wide riots by Albanians leave 19 dead and hundreds injured, thousands of Serbs flee their enclaves as hundreds of their homes and dozens of churches are set on fire
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| 2006 | Siege of Kosovo | |
| Kosovo The UN launches first direct talks on the status of Kosovo between Belgrade and the meanwhile fully-fledged Kosovo authorities, the Vienna talks produce no result
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