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| 1990 | Milosevic, Slobodan |  |
| Kosovo With Slobodan Milosevic rising to power on a surge of national awakening in Serbia, Belgrade scraps the autonomy of the increasingly restive Kosovo |
| 2nd July Kosovo Legislators of the dissolved provincial parliament declare independence from Serbia, an act which the international community ignores |
| Dec Kosovo Slobodan Milosevic revokes the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina and replaces locally chosen leaders with his sympathizers |
| Dec Kosovo The League of Communists of Kosovo, with its assembly and government, is formally disbanded. |
| 1996 | Milosevic, Slobodan | |
| 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 |
| 1998 | Milosevic, Slobodan | |
| 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 guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army UCK launches attacks on police, military and Serb civil |
| 1999 | Milosevic, Slobodan | |
| 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 |
| 18th Mar Kosovo The Serbian assembly accepts the principle of autonomy for Kosovo |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| April Kosovo The United Nations reports that 850,000 people-the vast majority of them Albanians-had fled their homes in Kosovo |
| 11th June Kosovo The war ends, leaving Kosovo in chaos and Yugoslavia as a whole facing an unknown future |
| 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 |
