BELGRADE, Feb 4: The Yugoslav parliament adopted on Tuesday a draft constitution that officially consigned the state of Yugoslavia to history, and created the new state of Serbia and Montenegro.

1918

- Dec 1: Yugoslavia’s predecessor, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, is created after the end of World War I and the resulting demise of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Under the rule of the Serbian Karadjordjevic dynasty, the kingdom also comprises several other peoples, including the Bosnian Muslims and the Montenegrins.

1929

The kingdom takes on the name of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

1941

- April 6: Yugoslavia is invaded by German troops and split up. Josip Broz Tito organizes resistance.

1945-6

Tito founds the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is made up of six republics — Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.

1948

- June 28: Tito breaks with Soviet leader Stalin. Yugoslavia, accused by Moscow of deviation, is thrown out of the Kominform.

1963

Yugoslavia is renamed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1974

A new constitution reinforces the rights and powers of the constituent Republics of Yugoslavia, as well as its autonomous provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo.

1980

- May 4: Tito dies. A collegiate presidency is instituted.

1981

- March-April: Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a autonomous province in Serbia, launch a revolt. The province is 90 percent populated by the Albanians.

1989

Claims for independence come from both Croatia and Slovenia. In March, Serbia withdraws the autonomy of both Kosovo and its northern province of Vojvodina.

1990

- Feb: The Yugoslav army brutally puts down separatist demonstrations in Kosovo.

- Dec 9: Slobodan Milosevic is elected president of Serbia.

1991

- June 25: Slovenia and Croatia make unilateral declarations of independence.

- Sept 8: Macedonia declares independence.

- Sept 26: Kosovo declares itself a “Republic”, in the wake of a clandestine referendum.

1992

- Feb 29: Bosnian Muslims and Croats vote in favour of Bosnian independence during a referendum. Bosnian Serbs, supported by the Yugoslav army, start besieging the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on April 5. Bosnia-Hercegovina is then devastated by fighting that lasts until the end of 1995.

- March: Montenegrins vote overwhelmingly in favour of remaining part of the post-communist Yugoslavia.

- April 27: Serbia and Montenegro form the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).

- May 30: The UN imposes a blanket embargo on the FRY for its role in Bosnian and Croatian war.

1995

- May-Aug: The Croatian army seizes the Serb-populated self-proclaimed republic of Srpska Krajina in Croatia, causing an unprecedented human exodus.

- Nov 21: A peace accord for the future of Bosnia is concluded at Dayton in the United States.

1997

- July 15: Milosevic is elected president of Yugoslavia.

2000

- March 6: Belgrade orders a blockade of trade between Serbia and Montenegro. NATO and the European Union declare support for Montenegro.

- Sept 24: Opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica defeats Milosevic in presidential elections, which are boycotted by Montenegro. Milosevic refuses to admit electoral defeat.

2001

- Jan 10: Montenegro rejects Kostunica’s proposal for reforming the federation.

2003

- Jan 27: The Serbian parliament adopts the constitutional charter of the future state of Serbia and Montenegro, followed by the Montenegrin parliament on Jan 29.—AFP