Important dates in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
1908 – The Ottoman Empire’s province of Bosnia and Herzegovina is annexed to Austria-Hungary.
1914 – Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo. This causes World War I to break out.
1918 – Austro-Hungarian Empire collapses at the end of the war. Bosnia and Herzegovina will become part of Yugoslavia in the future.
1941 – Bosnia and Herzegovina is annexed to the pro-Hitler Croatian puppet state. Thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies are sent to death camps.
(1945 – Bosnia and Herzegovina is liberated as a result of a campaign by communist partisans.
(1945-1991-Bosnia is part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 – After the fall of communism, Croats and Islamic nationalists form a tactical alliance and win an independence referendum against the Serbs.
1992-1995 – Violent ethnic civil war involving Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats. Serbs would soon control more than half of the republic. Killings and deportations are rampant in the newly declared Republic of Serbia, but also in areas dominated by Muslims and Croats.
