Events in Bosnia and Herzegovina History
- 0927-05-27 Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia
- 1408-12-12 Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession of Bosnia.
- 1831-03-29 Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
- 1908-10-06 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
- 1909-02-26 Austria and Turkey conclude an agreement in which Turkey recognizes Austria's 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is to receive compensation
- 1909-03-21 Germany sends Russia a diplomatic notes requesting recognition of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and cessation of support to Serbia in the controversy
- 1909-03-31 In a diplomatic note to Austria, Serbia recognizes the Bosnian annexation and promises to maintain friendly relations with Austria
Tito forms Partisan Brigade
1942-03-01 Tito establishes Second Proletarian Brigade to fight Axis occupation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1942-03-05 Josip Tito establishes 3rd Proletarian Brigade in Bosnia
- 1943-11-29 Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce, Bosnia
- 1944-05-07 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar, Bosnia
- 1944-05-25 WWII: Yugoslav guerrilla movement Partisan leader Josip Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
- 1990-07-31 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
- 1992-03-03 Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
- 1992-04-07 Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
- 1992-05-02 Yugoslav Army seizes Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
- 1993-01-02 Opposing factions in the Bosnian conflict hold meetings with the aim of ending the nine month conflict
- 1993-01-07 Bosnian War: Bosnian Army launches a surprise attack on Kravica, a village in Srebrenica
- 1993-02-10 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
- 1993-11-09 Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1993-12-14 Muslim fundamentalists murder 12 Croats and Bosnians in Algeria
- 1994-01-23 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
- 1994-04-20 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze, Bosnia, 47 killed
- 1994-04-21 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
- 1995-05-25 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla
- 1995-06-08 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
Srebrenica Massacre
1995-07-11 More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica on directive of Radovan Karadžić
- 1995-08-29 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- 1995-12-20 NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia
- 1996-01-02 The US deploys troops in Northern Bosnia with the intention of maintaining order and peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims
- 1996-01-12 Russian troops arrive in Bosnia as part of a joint operation with the US
- 2000-01-14 A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
- 2003-02-27 Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison
- 2004-02-26 Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 2008-07-21 Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
- 2014-02-09 Protest erupt in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the unemployment rate remains at 40% (57% for youth)
- 2016-03-24 Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić is found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment
Famous People from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1741-08-31 Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general, born in Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 1834)
- 1806-11-24 Omar Pasha [Mihajlo Latas], Serbian-Ottoman field marshal (Crimean War) and Governor (Bosnia, Iraq), born in Janja Gora, Military Frontier, Austrian Empire (d. 1871)
Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918)
1894-07-25 Bosnian-Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, born in Obljaj, Bosnia
- 1925-08-08 Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian politician and 1st president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990-2000), born in Bosanski Šamac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (d. 2003)
- 1940-01-05 Michael Rose, British army officer, born in British India
Radovan Karadžić (79 years old)
1945-06-19 Bosnian Serb politician, 1st President of Republika Srpska (1992-96) and war criminal convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, born in Petnjica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
- 1951-05-30 Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer, born in Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia
- 1955-10-01 Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb politician and war criminal, born in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1962-09-12 Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer and songwriter, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1962-12-11 Nele Karajlić, Bosnian singer (Zabranjeno pušenje), born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1970-10-30 Maja Tatić, Serbian-Bosnian pop singer, born in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
- 1977-01-01 Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian soccer utility (42 caps; Bayern Munich, 234 games, sporting director), born in Jablanica, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- 1979-03-14 Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer
- 1982-04-12 Deen [Fuad Backović], Bosnian singer and fashion designer, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- 1984-04-26 Mija Martina, Bosnian singer (Eurovision 2019 - "Ne Brini"), born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1987-05-05 Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer (Rijeka bez imena), born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia