1995 – Dayton accords bring end to Bosnian war. Sanctions lifted.
1997 – Milosevic becomes Yugoslav president.
1998 – Kosovo Liberation Army rebels against Serbian rule. Serb forces launch brutal crackdown. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians flee.
1999 – Defiance by Slobodan Milosevic over Kosovo sparks Nato air strikes against Serbian targets. Milosevic agrees to withdraw forces from Kosovo. Kosovo becomes UN protectorate but remains de jure part of Serbia.
2002 – Trial of Slobodan Milosevic on charges of genocide and war crimes begins in The Hague.
2006 – Milosevic found dead in his cell in The Hague.
2006 – Montenegro votes in a referendum to separate from Serbia and declares independence.
2008 – Kosovo unilaterally declares independence, which is gradually recognised by the US and most EU and Nato countries but not Serbia.
2008 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who evaded capture on war crimes charges for almost 13 years, is arrested by Serbian security forces in Belgrade and flown to The Hague to stand trial.
2011 – Serbian authorities arrest former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic.
2013 – Serbia and Kosovo sign landmark agreement on normalising relations.
2014 – EU membership talks begin.
2016 – UN tribunal finds former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide and war crimes and sentences him to 40 years in prison.
2017 – Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic is jailed for life for genocide and other atrocities in the 1990s Bosnian war.
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