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| 1991 | Milosevic, Slobodan |  |
| 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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| 1992 | Karadzic, Radovan | |
| 5th April Sarajevo Fought during the Bosnian War between poorly equipped defending forces of the Bosnian government, who had declared independence from Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Bosnian Serb forces (Army of Republika Srpska) (VRS)
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| 5th April Sarajevo It is estimated that of the more than 12,000 people who were killed and 50,000 who were wounded during the siege, 85% were civilians, because of killing and forced migration, by 1995 the population decreased to 334,663 - 64% of the prewar population
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| 5th April Sarajevo The Siege of Sarajevo becomes the longest siege in the history of modern warfare, conducted by the Serb forces of self-proclaimed Republika Srpska and Yugoslav People's Army, lasting from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996
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| 1992 | Mladic, Ratko | |
| 2nd May Sarajevo One month after the Bosnian Republic's declaration of independence, Mladic and his generals, acting under orders from Belgrade, blockade the city of Sarajevo
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| 9th May Sarajevo Assumes the post of Chief of Staff/Deputy Commander of the Second Military District Headquarters of the JNA in Sarajevo
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| 10th May Sarajevo Mladic assumes the command of the Second Military District Headquarters of the JNA
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| 12th May Sarajevo Mladic is appointed Commander of the Main Staff of the VRS, a position he holds until December 1996
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| 1994 | Mladic, Ratko | |
| 12th May Sarajevo Promoted to the rank of Colonel General over the approximately 80,000 troops stationed in Sarajevo
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| 1995 | Karadzic, Radovan | |
| Sarajevo A cease fire is reached in October 1995, and the Dayton Agreement is reached later that year bringing peace to the country
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| Sarajevo After the second Markale massacre, in which 37 people were killed and 90 were wounded, the international forces firmly turn against the besiegers
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| Sarajevo Fighting escalates, this time with the joint Bosnian and Croatian forces on the offensive, and the Serbs slowly lost more and more ground both in Sarajevo area and elsewhere, heating, electricity, and water would eventually come back to the city
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| Sarajevo Indicted by the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 5 counts of crimes against humanity, 3 counts of violations of the laws of war, 1 count of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions & unlawful transfer of civilians
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| Sarajevo When the Serb forces raid a UN-monitored weapons collection site, NATO jets attack Bosnian Serb ammunition depots and other strategic military targets
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| 1995 | Milosevic, Slobodan | |
| 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 | Mladic, Ratko | |
| 25th June Indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, and numerous war crimes (including crimes relating to the alleged sniping campaign against civilians in Sarajevo)
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| 1996 | Karadzic, Radovan | |
| 29th Feb Sarajevo The Bosnian government officially declares the siege of Sarajevo over, when Serbian forces left positions in and around Sarajevo, over 200,000 Serbian civilians and Sarajevo's citizens left Serbian suburbs
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| 1996 | Mladic, Ratko | |
| July The President of the Bosnian Serb Republic Biljana Plavsic dismisses Mladic from his post
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| 2003 | Galic, Stanislav | |
| Jan Sarajevo The ICTY Trial Chamber convicts the first commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, Stanislav Galic, of the shelling and sniper terror campaign against Sarajevo, including the first Markale massacre
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| 2007 | Milosevic, Dragomir | |
| Sarajevo Dragomir Milosevic, who replaced Stanislav Galic as commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, is found guilty of the shelling and sniper terror campaign against Sarajevo and its citizens from August 1994 to late 1995 including the 2nd Markale massacre
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