| 25 June 1991 | Croatia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia | The republics of Croatia and Slovenia declare independence from Yugoslavia. |
| 7 April 1992 | Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia | The European Community formally recognizes the independence of the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina; fighting escalates as the Yugoslav federal air force aids Serb forces. |
| 20 March 1993 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | The United Nations (UN) supervises the evacuation of civilians from the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina, besieged for almost a year (the siege ends on 18 April). |
| 6 May 1993 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | The United Nations Security Council declares ‘safe areas’ in Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zepa, Goradze, Bihac, and Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina; in spite of this, Bosnian Serbs attack Goradze and Srebrenica on 30 May. |
| 18 March 1994 | Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia | Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia sign an accord on the creation of a federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats. |
| 10–11 April 1994 | Bosnia-Herzegovina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) makes air strikes on Serbian posts near the United Nations (UN) ‘safe area’ of Goradze in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but subsequently (17 April) Goradze falls to Serb forces. |
| 25 May 1995 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) launches airstrikes against the Serbs following their refusal to surrender artillery; in response, Serbs kill 67 people in attacks on the United Nations (UN) safe haven of Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
| 26 May 1995 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Bosnian Serbs begin seizure of United Nations (UN) troops as hostages, in response to the threat of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) air strikes; by June over 377 troops have been taken (they are released 2–18 June). |
| 7 February 1999 | France, Kosovo | Serbs and ethnic Albanian leaders from Kosovo meet at Rambouillet chateau outside Paris, France, to begin peace talks, with the threat of NATO attacks if they do not find a peaceful solution to the violence in the region within two weeks. |
| 18 March 1999 | France, Albania, Serbia | Ethnic Albanian representatives sign a peace agreement in Paris, France, designed to end the conflict with the Serbian government over the autonomy of Kosovo. Serbian delegates, however, refuse to sign the accord because of its inclusion of a planned NATO peacekeeping force in the region. |
| 25 March 1999 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Russia, China | Russia and China denounce the NATO air strikes against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, demanding a political rather than military solution to the conflict in Kosovo. |
| 12 April 1999 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Foreign ministers from NATO's 19 member countries meet for the first time since bombing began in Kosovo. They pledge to continue the bombing campaign until Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševic withdraws his forces from Kosovo and allows ethnic Albanian refugees to return safely. |
| 3 June 1999 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | The president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloševic formally accepts a peace plan devised by the European Union and Russia, after 72 days of NATO bombing. NATO plans to continue bombing until Serb forces begin to withdraw from the disputed region of Kosovo. |
| 6 June 1999 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | Peace talks between Yugoslav and NATO military leaders are deadlocked when the Yugloslavs reject terms of a seven-day withdrawal out of Kosovo. NATO continues its bombing campaign, insisting it will not stop until Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševic agrees to NATO's terms. |
| 10 June 1999 | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | As Serb troops start to withdraw from Kosovo, NATO general secretary Javier Solana officially declares an end to the alliance's 78 days of bombing in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, marking an end to the war. NATO makes final preparations for Operation Joint Guardian, the largest peacekeeping force in modern history, which will facilitate the return of up to one million ethnic Albanian refugees to their homes in Kosovo. |
| 26 February 2007 | | In the first ruling of its kind, the International Court of Justice, as the supreme judicial authority of the United Nations, declares that Serbia was not responsible for genocide in Bosnia during the 1992–95 war in former Yugoslavia. However, it denounces Serbia for failing to prevent the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 by the Bosnian Serb military. |
