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| 1962 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol |  |
| Founds the guerrilla movement, Khmer Rouge
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| 1962 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Samouth, Tou | |
| 20th July Tou Samouth is murdered by the Cambodian government
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| 1963 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| Feb At the WPK's second congress, Pol Pot is chosen to succeed Tou Samouth as the party's general secretary
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| Feb Pol Pot and loyal comrades from his Paris student days control the party center, edging out older veterans whom they considered excessively pro-Vietnamese
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| Feb Tou's allies, Nuon Chea and Keo Meas, are removed from the Central Committee and replaced by Son Sen and Vorn Vet
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| July Ratanakiri Pol Pot and most of the central committee leave Phnom Penh to establish an insurgent base in Ratanakiri Province in the northeast
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| 1963 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Sen, Son | |
| Feb Tou's allies, Nuon Chea and Keo Meas, are removed from the Central Committee and replaced by Son Sen and Vorn Vet
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| 1963 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Vet, Vorn | |
| Feb Tou's allies, Nuon Chea and Keo Meas, are removed from the Central Committee and replaced by Son Sen and Vorn Vet
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| 1965 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| The region Pol Pot and others move to is inhabited by tribal minorities, the Khmer Loeu, whose rough treatment (including resettlement and forced assimilation) at the hands of the centralGovernment made them willing recruits for a guerrilla struggle
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| 1966 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| The party changes its name to the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)
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| 1967 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| Several small-scale attempts at insurgency are made by the CPK but they have little success
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| 1968 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| As the insurgency grows stronger, the party finally openly declares itself to be the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)
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| Khmer Rouge forces launch a national insurgency across Cambodia
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| 1970 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Sihanouk | |
| Beijing Allies with the extreme wing of the Khmer Rouge & forms a Government in exile
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| Beijing Sihanouk, inexile in Beijing, makes anAlliance with the Khmer Rouge and becomes the nominal head of a Khmer Rouge-dominated government-in-exile (known by its French acronym, GRUNK) backed by the People's Republic of China
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| 1973 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| Many people in Cambodia who helped the Khmer Rouge against the Lon NolGovernment thought they were fighting for the restoration of Sihanouk
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| Sihanouk's popular support in rural Cambodia allows the Khmer Rouge to extend its power and influence to the point that by 1973 it exercises de facto control over the majority of Cambodian territory, although only a minority of its population
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| When the US Congress suspends aid to Cambodia in 1973, the Khmer Rouge makes sweeping gains in the country
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| 1973 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Sihanouk | |
| Many people in Cambodia who helped the Khmer Rouge against the Lon NolGovernment thought they were fighting for the restoration of Sihanouk
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| Sihanouk's popular support in rural Cambodia allows the Khmer Rouge to extend its power and influence to the point that by 1973 it exercises de facto control over the majority of Cambodian territory, although only a minority of its population
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| 1975 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| 17th April Phnom Penh The Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh
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| 1979 | Khmer Rouge Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| Despite a traditional Cambodian fear of Vietnamese domination, defecting Khmer Rouge activists assisted the Vietnamese, and, with Vietnam's approval, become the core of the new puppet government
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| 1997 | Arrest Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| Tried by the Khmer Rouge & placed under house arrest
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| Tried by the Khmer Rouge & placed under house arrest
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| 1998 | Death Kampuchea Pot, Pol | |
| 15th April Death of Pol Pot
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