Timeline of the Croatian War of Independence
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1991
- 1–3 March 1991
- Pakrac clash
- 31 March 1991
- Plitvice Lakes incidentPlitvice Lakes incidentThe Plitvice Lakes incident of late March/early April 1991 was an incident at the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence...
- 1 April 1991
- Republic of Serbian KrajinaRepublic of Serbian KrajinaThe Republic of Serbian Krajina was a self-proclaimed Serb entity within Croatia. Established in 1991, it was not recognized internationally. It formally existed from 1991 to 1995, having been initiated a year earlier via smaller separatist regions. The name Krajina means "frontier"...
is proclaimed
- 2 May 1991
- Borovo Selo killingsBorovo Selo killingsThe Borovo Selo killings of 2 May 1991 was one of the first military engagements which led to the breakup of Yugoslavia...
- 25 June 1991
- SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
and Croatia declare their independence
- 1 August 1991
- Dalj killings
- July 1991
- Operation Zbrojovka
- August 1991
- Operation Rašeljka, Operation Dolac
- August 1991
- Operation Coast-91
- September 1991
- Battle of VukovarBattle of VukovarThe Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army , supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous, mixed community of Croats,...
begins
- 14–19 September 1991
- Main part of the Battle of the barracksBattle of the BarracksBattle of the barracks - sometimes also called War for the barracks - is a term given to a series of engagements that took place throughout Croatia as part of the Croatian War of Independence during 1991, with the most important fighting in September...
- 21 September, 1991
- Ivanovo Selo massacre
- 26 September, 1991
- Operation Medvjed
- 1 October 1991
- Start of the Siege of DubrovnikSiege of DubrovnikThe Siege of Dubrovnik is a term marking the battle and siege of the city of Dubrovnik and the surrounding area in Croatia as part of the Croatian War of Independence. Yugoslav People's Army invaded the Dubrovnik area in October 1991 from Montenegro, Bosnia and even parts of Croatia, surrounding...
- 4 October 1991
- Dalj massacreDalj massacreDalj killings and Dalj massacre refer to the events beginning on 1 August 1991 which resulted in the murder of 11 Croatian civilians and 28 Croatian policemen in the village of Dalj, eastern Slavonia at the hand of Serbian paramilitaries, during the Croatian War of Independence.-August killings:At...
- 5 October 1991
- Croatia commences general mobilization
- 7 October 1991
- Bombing of Banski dvoriBombing of Banski dvoriThe Bombing of Banski dvori was a Yugoslav People's Army air strike on Banski dvori, the official residence of the Government of Croatia in Zagreb, on 7 October 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence....
- 10 October 1991
- Lovas massacreLovas massacreLovas massacre were the killings of Croat detainees in the villages of Lovas and neighbouring Opatovac in eastern Slavonia, Croatia. The civilians were killed by Croatian Serb paramilitary forces during the Croatian War of Independence in the period from October 10, 1991 to the end of that...
- 10–13 October 1991
- Široka Kula massacreŠiroka Kula massacreThe Široka Kula massacre was committed by rebel Croatian Serb forces in the Croatian village of Široka Kula during the Croatian War of Independence beginning on 10 October 1991...
- 16–18 October 1991
- Gospić massacreGospic massacreThe Gospić massacre took place between 16–18 October 1991 in the town of Gospić, a city in the district of Lika in Croatia. The massacre came three days after the massacre in the village of Široka Kula...
- 20 October 1991
- Baćin massacreBacin massacreThe Baćin massacre was a war crime committed by rebel Croatian Serbs' forces on October 21, 1991 on a location near village of Baćin, near Hrvatska Dubica, in central Croatia, during the Croatian War of Independence....
- 28 October 1991
- Massacre in Lipovača near SaborskoSaborsko massacreThe Saborsko massacre was a war crime committed during the Croatian War of Independence in Saborsko and two other Croatian villages in the region of Kordun by the Serb-led JNA and rebel Croatian Serbs' "Militia of Republic of Serb Krajina" in October and November 1991, in which they killed local...
- 31 October 1991 – 4 November 1991
- Operation Otkos 10Operation Otkos 10Operation Otkos 10 was a military offensive undertaken by the Croatian army against the Yugoslav People's Army in SAO Western Slavonia...
- 4 November 1991 - 13 November, 1991
- Battle of Drenov Klanac
- 7 November 1991
- Massacre in Vukovići near SaborskoSaborsko massacreThe Saborsko massacre was a war crime committed during the Croatian War of Independence in Saborsko and two other Croatian villages in the region of Kordun by the Serb-led JNA and rebel Croatian Serbs' "Militia of Republic of Serb Krajina" in October and November 1991, in which they killed local...
- 12 November 1991
- Massacre in SaborskoSaborsko massacreThe Saborsko massacre was a war crime committed during the Croatian War of Independence in Saborsko and two other Croatian villages in the region of Kordun by the Serb-led JNA and rebel Croatian Serbs' "Militia of Republic of Serb Krajina" in October and November 1991, in which they killed local...
- 14 November 1991
- Battle of the Dalmatian channelsBattle of the Dalmatian channelsThe Battle of the Dalmatian channels was a three-day long confrontation between two task forces of the Yugoslav War Navy and coastal defenses of the Croatian Navy along Šolta island, the port of Split, and the islands of Brač, Hvar and Korčula, which took place from 14 to 16 November 1991...
- 18 November 1991
- Battle of VukovarBattle of VukovarThe Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army , supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous, mixed community of Croats,...
ends, Vukovar massacreVukovar massacreThe Vukovar massacre, also known as Vukovar hospital massacre or simply Ovčara, was a war crime that took place between November 20 and November 21, 1991 near the city of Vukovar, a mixed Croat/Serb community in northeastern Croatia...
- 18 November 1991
- Škabrnja massacreŠkabrnja massacreŠkabrnja massacre was a war crime committed by Serb Army forces during the Croatian War of Independence. On November 18, 1991, Serb paramilitaries, supported by the JNA, captured the village of Škabrnja and killed 25 Prisoners of war and 61 civilians over the next several days.-Before the...
- 7 December 1991
- Murder of the Zec familyMurder of the Zec familyThe murder of the Zec family occurred in Zagreb, Croatia on December 7, 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence, when the squad of five Croatian militiamen with government support shot dead three members of an ethnic Serb Zec family: the father Mihajlo Zec, his wife Marija and their...
- 12 December 1991 – 3 January 1992
- Operation Orkan 91Operation Orkan 91Operation Orkan 91 was a military operation during the Croatian War of Independence. After successful completion of Operation Otkos 10, the first offensive operation of such scale by Croatian army in the homeland war, Croatian troops were in position to retake further territory and neutralize a...
- 13 December 1991
- Voćin massacreVocin massacreVoćin massacre was a massacre committed against Croatian civilians in the village of Voćin by Serb paramilitary units in December 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence....
- 16 December 1991
- Joševica massacreJoševica massacreThe Joševica massacre was a war crime committed by the paramilitary forces of the rebel Serbs in the Croatian village of Joševica during the Croatian War of Independence. The atrocities took place on December 16 of 1991....
- 28 November 1991 - 26 December 1991
- Operation Strijela
- 21 December 1991
- Bruška massacreBruška massacreThe Bruška massacre took place on 21 December 1991 in Bruška, a small village near the Croatian town of Benkovac when Serbian paramilitaries executed 10 civilians in the hamlet of Marinovići...
1992
- 3 April 1992
- Operation Baranja
- 30 May 1992
- UN imposes sanctions against FR Yugoslavia
- 7 June 1992 - 26 June 1992
- Operation Dawns of June (lipanjske zore) or Jackal (čagalj)
- 21 June 1992
- Miljevci plateau battleMiljevci plateau battleThe Miljevci plateau incident took place on Sunday, June 21, 1992. It was a surprise attack by units of the Croatian army against separatist Serb Krajina Territorial Defense positions in the area of the Miljevci Plateau, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near Drniš, and succeeded in regaining...
- 23 July 1992 - 12 August 1992
- Operation Liberated land (Oslobođena zemlja)
- 22 September 1992
- FR Yugoslavia ousted from the UN
- 20-24 October 1992
- Operation Konavle
- 22-27 October 1992
- Operation Vlaštica
1993
- 22 January 1993
- Operation MaslenicaOperation MaslenicaIn early September, 1991, during the opening stages of the Croatian War of Independence, Serb-dominated units of the Knin Corps of the Yugoslav People's Army , under the command of Colonel Ratko Mladić and supported by the ethnic Serb Krajina militia, conducted offensive operations against areas...
- 27-28 January 1993
- Operation Peruča
- 9–17 September 1993
- Operation Medak PocketOperation Medak PocketOperation Medak Pocket: Mid-September 1993 United Nations Protection Force and the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry advanced into the Medak Pocket, named after the village of Medak, in Southern Croatia, with orders to implement a ceasefire between the Croatian Army Troops...
1994
- March 1994
- Washington AgreementWashington AgreementThe Washington Agreement was a ceasefire agreement between the warring Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed in Washington on 18 March 1994 and Vienna. It was signed by Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdžić, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granić and...
- 1-3 November 1994
- Operation Cincar
1995
- January 1995
- Creation of Z-4 planZ-4 planThe Z-4 Plan or Draft agreement on the Krajina, Slavonia, Southern Baranja and Western Sirmium stands for the Zagreb 4 peace proposal to end the Croatian War of Independence. The proposal was made by the Zagreb 4 group and would have reintegrated the Republic of Serbian Krajina into Croatia...
- 7 April 1995
- Operation Jump 1 (Skok 1)
- 1–3 May 1995
- Operation FlashOperation FlashThe Serbs in western Slavonia took part in the organized rebellion against the government of the Republic of Croatia that had just proclaimed independence in June 1991, by proclaiming the Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Western Slavonia in August 1991...
- 2–3 May 1995
- Zagreb rocket attackZagreb rocket attackThe Zagreb rocket attacks were a series of two artillery attacks conducted by Serb armed forces that fired ground-to-ground missiles on the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence...
- 4-11 June 1995
- Operation Jump 2 (Skok 2)
- 4–7 August 1995
- Operation StormOperation StormOperation Storm is the code name given to a large-scale military operation carried out by Croatian Armed Forces, in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to gain back control of parts of Croatia which had been claimed by separatist ethnic Serbs, since early...
- 18-19 September 1995
- Operation Una
- 8-15 October 1995
- Operation Southern stroke (Južni potez)
- 1995
- Operation Burin
- 12 November 1995
- Signing of Erdut agreementErdut AgreementThe Erdut Agreement , officially the Basic Agreement on the Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, was the agreement reached on November 12, 1995 between the authorities of the Republic of Croatia and the local Serb authorities of the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia...
- November & December 1995
- The Dayton AgreementDayton AgreementThe General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on...
External links
- Chronology of the homeland war at the web site of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia