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Historical Events
Events 1 - 15 of 15
1389-06-28 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1448-10-17 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
1981-03-26 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981-04-06 - Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
1997-11-28 - First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
1998-02-28 - Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
1999-01-15 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
1999-03-24 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999-05-07 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999-05-27 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
1999-06-09 - Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
1999-06-10 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
1999-06-12 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2004-03-17 - Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2008-02-17 - Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 2 of 2
1944-12-02 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
1951-10-23 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 3 of 3
1998-03-06 - Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
2006-01-21 - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2006-04-14 - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
