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Slobodan Milosevic Biography and Timeline — Page 2

Follow Slobodan Milosevic through 80 dated historical records for Serbia.

Slobodan Milosevic, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1995

Srebrenica Massacre

President of Serbia · Srebrenica · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

More than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica, are killed in the Srebrenica massacre

Role range: 1991-1995

Siege of Krajina

President of Serbia · Krajina · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Croatian forces invade the Serbian-held territory of Krajina seized by the Serbs in 1990

Role range: 1991-1995

Operation Storm Begins

President · President of Serbia · Krajina · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Receives refugees as Croatian forces overrun Serb-held Krajina.

Role range: 1991-1999

Siege of Krajina

President of Serbia · Krajina · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Croatia retakes Krajina, and force 150,000 Serb refugees to flee, heightening fears that the conflict will spread

Role range: 1991-1995

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

NATO planes attack Bosnian Serb ammunition and fuel dumps, the largest military action thus far in NATO's 46-year history

Role range: 1991-1995

Operation Deliberate Force

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

NATO planes attack Bosnian Serb ammunition and fuel dumps, the largest military action thus far in NATO's 46-year history

Role range: 1991-1995

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, Government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military

Role range: 1991-1995

Operation Deliberate Force

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

A sustained air campaign conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in concert with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS)

Role range: 1991-1995

Operation Deliberate Force

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Operation Deliberate Force is carried out between 30 August and 20 September 1995, involving 400 aircraft and 5,000 personnel from 15 nations

Role range: 1991-1995

Operation Deliberate Force

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Army of Republika Srpska attacks UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina which leads to the Srebrenica and Markale massacres, precipitating direct intervention by NATO

Role range: 1991-1995

Operation Deliberate Force

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, Government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military

Role range: 1991-1995

Siege of Sarajevo

President of Serbia · Sarajevo · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Serb forces resume their attacks on Sarajevo

Role range: 1991-1995

Ceasefire

President of Serbia · Sarajevo · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

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

Role range: 1991-1995

Siege of Sarajevo

President of Serbia · Sarajevo · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton negotiations create the peace framework for Bosnia.

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Conference

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Following NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, Milosevic joins the Presidents of Bosnia and Croatia in a peace agreement at the US sponsored talks at Dayton, Ohio

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Conference

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Held in the shadow of the massacre in the Srebrenica safe zone, and the indictments against the main military and Government leaders of Bosnian Serbs before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Conference

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The main participants from the region are Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (representing the Bosnian Serb interests due to absence of Karadzic), Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic with Bosnian Foreign Minis.

Role range: 1991-1995

General Framework Agreement for Peace

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The war is ended by the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio

Role range: 1991-1995

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton negotiations create the peace framework for Bosnia.

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Agreement Initialled

President · President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Bosnian War

Initials the peace agreement while representing Serbian and Bosnian Serb interests.

Role range: 1992-1995

Constitution of Serbia

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its structure of Government are agreed upon as part the constitution that makes up Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement concluded at Dayton

Role range: 1991-1995

Election

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Under the Dayton Accords Anyone 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

Role range: 1991-1995

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

50,000 NATO troops, including Russians and 20,000 Americans, begin to monitor the fragile peace in December

Role range: 1991-1995

Rule of Bosnia

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton Accords provide for a virtual partitioning of Bosnia and the deployment of a multinational implementation force (IFOR) to keep the warring factions apart and protect war-crimes investigators

Role range: 1991-1995

Rule of Sarajevo

President of Serbia · Sarajevo · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Under the Dayton Accords Anyone 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

Role range: 1991-1995

Siege of Sarajevo

President of Serbia · Sarajevo · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Under the Dayton Accords Anyone 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

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton Accords follow the Croatian military Operation Storm, Government military offensive against the Republika Srpska, in concert with NATO's Operation Deliberate Force, the bombardment of the Bosnian Serb military

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Dayton · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton negotiations create the peace framework for Bosnia.

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

50,000 NATO troops, including Russians and 20,000 Americans, begin to monitor the fragile peace in December

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

A US peace accord is agreed at Paris and signed outside Dayton, Ohio, ending 43 months of savage, genocidal warfare in which 250,000 had died and nearly 2 million lost their homes

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton Accords provide for a virtual partitioning of Bosnia and the deployment of a multinational implementation force (IFOR) to keep the warring factions apart and protect war-crimes investigators. The Dayton accords are signed in Paris.

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The Dayton accords put an end to the three and a half year long war in Bosnia, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its structure of Government are agreed upon as part the constitution that makes up Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement concluded at Dayton.

Role range: 1991-1995

Dayton Accords

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Under the Dayton Accords Anyone 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.

Role range: 1991-1995

General Framework Agreement for Peace

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The General Framework Agreement for Peace is signed

Role range: 1991-1995

General Framework Agreement for Peace

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The General Framework Agreement for Peace recognizes the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska as one of its two main political-territorial divisions

Role range: 1991-1995

Republika Srpska

President of Serbia · Paris · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

The General Framework Agreement for Peace recognizes the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska as one of its two main political-territorial divisions

Role range: 1991-1995

Independence of Serbia

President of Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Two major thrusts by Croatian forces recover most of the Serb-held territory and 150,000 Serbs flee to Serbia

Role range: 1991-1995

1998

Kosovo Conflict Escalates

President · President of Serbia · Drenica · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Orders Serbian security operations as the Kosovo conflict escalates.

Role range: 1991-1999

1999

NATO Air Campaign Begins

President · President of Serbia · Belgrade · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Leads Yugoslavia during the opening of the NATO air campaign.

Role range: 1991-1999

Records, sources and methodology

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