* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

* 1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.

On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.

Twenty other people were injured and twenty-nine Krajina Serb paramilitaries and policemen were taken prisoner by Croatian forces.

The President of the Republic () is the head of state and the commander in chief of the Croatian armed forces and is directly elected to serve a five-year term.

* 1995 – During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.

* 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

* 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd ; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.

** Croatian forces launch Operation Flash against rebel Serb forces in western Slavonia.

* August 4 – Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* August 5 – Croatian forces take Knin and continue to advance.

His troops were also stationed in the Republic of Serbian Krajina to fight against the Croatian paramilitary forces, and he had a dispute over military operations with the Serbian regional leader Milan Martić Arkan also had friendly contacts and political plans with Russian ultra-nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

The war in Croatia ended with a total Croatian victory with the Croats routing the forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina and expelling an estimated 200, 000 Croatian Serbs from the country in the largest military offensive in Europe since the end of the Second World War.

In addition, Article 16 allows ethnic Croatians living outside Croatia " acquire Croatian citizenship " by making a written declaration and by submitting proof of attachment to Croatian culture.

The last known UDBA hit in the UK took place on 20 October 1988 when Nikola Štedul, a 51-year-old Croatian émigré, was gunned down outside his home in Kirkcaldy.

The citizens that live outside Croatian borders vote in a separate electoral unit.

However, this Serb entity also included some territories that were not part of the Military Frontier in the past, while large tracts of territory that had constituted the Military Frontier resided outside the Serb region as largely Croat populated areas of the Republic of Croatia ( See the Croatian War of Independence for more information ).

In 1347 King Louis I of Hungary conferred on this branch of the Brebers, in the persons of Count Gregory and Count George ( Grgur and Juraj in Croatian ), respectively son and nephew of Ban Paul, the castle of Zrin ( in exchange for the strategically important castle of Ostrovica, their last holding outside of ancestral Breber ( Croat.

His most productive period was when he lived outside Croatia, but he was in permanent contact with Croatian artists ( Izidor Kršnjavi and Ivan Meštrović ), and during those times he worked in the spirit of secession ( the name for Art Nouveau in Vienna ).

The Yugoslav Committee was formed by exiles living outside the Croatian homeland during World War I.

In one sense, it refers to the territorial scope of the Croatian people, emphasising the ethnicity of those Croats living outside Croatia.

Croatian forces outside the Vukovar perimeter received large quantities of arms and ammunition from depots captured elsewhere, enabling them to hold the line against JNA attacks.

General Anton Tus, commander of the Croatian forces outside the Vukovar perimeter, put Dedaković in charge of a breakthrough operation to relieve the town and launched a counter-offensive on 13 October.

Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun ( street ) | Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik ; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia | Croatian tricolour ; soldiers of the Croatian Army getting ready to destroy a Republic of Serbian Krajina | Serbian tank ; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery ; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš

Military occupation of the islands ended recently after an incident in which Serbian military opened fire and arrested the mayor of Vukovar Vladimir Štengel with 19 other Croatian civilians and 8 children who were going to visit Zvezdan Kisić the mayor of the Serbian town Bačka Palanka.

In 1991, Genscher raced to recognize the Republic of Croatia in the Croatian War of Independence shortly after the Serbian attack on Vukovar.

RPGs were used with great effect in the famous Battle of Vukovar by the Croatian army, during which more than 300 tanks, APCs and vehicles were put out of action.

** Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.

During the Croatian War of Independence, Slavonia saw fierce fighting — including the Battle of Vukovar.

Vukovar was mentioned first in the 13th century as Volko, Walk, Wolkov ( original Croatian / Slavic name of the town was Vukovo ).

Vukovar was heavily damaged during the Croatian War of Independence.

* Battle of Vukovar ( 1991 ) – Croatian War of Independence

SDP recorded mayoral victories in a number of traditionally centre-right leaning coastal cities such as Dubrovnik, Šibenik and Trogir and also managed to win in Vukovar, a city that had been almost destroyed in the Croatian War of Independence and was regarded as HDZ stronghold ever since.

Croatian Government have claims on Island of Šarengrad and Island of Vukovar on the Danube river, which are under Serbian control.

After the peaceful reintegration, two Croatian islands on the Danube, the Island of Šarengrad and the Island of Vukovar, remained under Serbian military control.

The first of these charges is for persecution of Croatian, Muslim and other non-Serbs in Vukovar, Šamac, Zvornik and Vojvodina.

Croatian ZSU-57-2 in Vukovar war museum

A notable example of modern hedgehog defence is the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of independence, in which a small, ill-armed but determined Croatian resistance kept a larger, heavily equipped — but less-motivated-Yugoslav army at hold ; buying precious time for the fledgling Republic of Croatia to organize their own armed forces.

The archaeological site of Vučedol is situated downstream from the Croatian town of Vukovar, on the right bank of the Danube.

Vukovar was defended by around 1, 800 lightly armed soldiers of the Croatian National Guard ( ZNG ) and civilian volunteers, against 36, 000 JNA soldiers and Serbian paramilitaries equipped with heavy armour and artillery.

Croatian police forcibly took over the local radio station, Radio Vukovar, and Serb members of the station's ethnically mixed staff were fired and replaced with Croats.

Croatian paramilitaries, led by Tomislav Merčep, attacked Serbs in and around Vukovar ; between thirty and eighty-six Serbs were alleged to have disappeared or been killed, and thousands of others fled their homes.

A Croatian government representative in Vukovar told the Zagreb authorities that " the city is again victim of terror, armed strife and provocative shoot-outs with potentially unfathomable consequences.