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JANUARY

20-22 January - The 14th Special Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) took place in Belgrade. Bitter antagonism between various republican delegations culminated in the decision of the Slovenian and Croatian delegations to leave the Congress. The end of the Congress was indefinitely postponed.

24 January - Demonstrations commenced in Kosovo. Forty thousands Albanians demanded lifting of emergency measures, calling off the trial to Azem Vlasi, one of the Albanian leaders, and the proclamation of an "Albanian Republic of Kosovo".

FEBRUARY

1-2 February - In order to prevent spreading of demonstrations the Army was taken out in the streets of several towns in Kosovo.

14 February - The Assembly of the SR Croatia adopted amendments to the Constitution legalizing thereby the multiparty system.

21 February - The curfew was imposed in Kosovo.

The Assembly of the SR Bosnia- Herzegovina adopted the Law of association of citizens introducing thus multiparty systems in this republic.

24- 25 February - The first general meeting (sabor) of the Croatian Democratic Union (CDU) took place in Zagreb. Sabor adopted new Statute and reelected Franjo Tudjman for the president of CDU. In his speach Franjo Tudjman said: "Independent State of Croatia was not only a mere quisling creation and fascist crime but also the expression of historical aspirations of the Croatian people".

MARCH

4 March - In Petrova gora, in Kordun a mass meeting took place in favour of territorial integrity of SFRJ and against "neofascism and Franjo Tudjman".

13 March - Government of Republic of Croatia sent a letter to the Yugoslav Federal government and governments of all Yugoslav republics in which it was condemned events both at the Sabor of CDU and at the meeting in Petrova gora. Croatian government appealed for cooperation and joint action against any further disturbance of good inter ethnic relations.

APRIL

8 April - The parliamentary and presidential elections took place in Slovenia. At those first multiparty elections in postwar Yugoslavia DEMOS, united opposition, won majority (55 per cent) in the Assembly, and Milan Kucan was elected President of the Presidency of Slovenia.

22 April - Parliamentary elections for the Assembly of Croatia (Croatian Sabor) took place in Croatia. The second ballot was on 6 May. Although Croatian Democratic Union (CDU) received 41,5 per cent of votes, thanks to the majority electoral system, it won 193 seats out of a total 365, Party of Democratic Change (former League of Communists) won 81, and remaining parties 91 seats.

MAY

15 May - Borisav Jovic, representative of Serbia was appointed President of the Presidency of the SFRY.

30 May - The January 14th Special Congress of the LCY was completed. The delegations of LC of Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia did not participate.

The Assembly of Croatia elected Franjo Tudjman President of the Presidency of Croatia, and Stipe Mesic was appointed Prime Minister.

JUNE

29- 30 June - At the session of all three houses of the Croatian Parliament president Franjo Tudjman explained the proposed amendments to the Constitution. According to these amendments Croatia would ceased to be "socialist republic" and the five-pointed star on the flag would be replaced by the "chessboard". President of the Croatian Parliament Vladimir Seks said that state sovereignty of Croatia in the community with other peoples of Yugoslavia could be ensured only on the confederated basis, in a Union of sovereign states.

JULY

2 July - The Assembly of Slovenia adopted the Declaration on the sovereignty of the state of Slovenia.

Albanian members of the Assembly of Kosovo, gathered in front of the Assembly building in Pristina, adopted Constitutional declaration proclaiming Kosovo republic.

5 July - The Assembly of the SR Serbia decided to dissolve the Assembly of Kosovo because of illegal act of proclaiming Kosovo Republic.

16 July - The League of Communists of Serbia and the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Serbia merged into the Socialist Party of Serbia. Slobodan Milosevic was elected the President of the party by 1228 out of 1294 votes of the delegates.

20 July - The Assembly of Serbia passed the law introducing a multiparty system.

25 July - The Assembly of the SR Croatia adopted amendments to the Constitution. According to these amendments Croatia ceased to be "socialist republic", and the five- pointed star on the flag was replaced by the "chessboard".

At a rally in Srb the Serbian Democratic Party issued the Declaration on the sovereignty and independence of Serbian people in Croatia and established the Serbian National Council as the authority of Serbs in Croatia.

31 July - The Assembly of Bosnia- Herzegovina adopted constitutional amendments by which Bosnia- Herzegovina was declared a democratic state of equal citizens of the peoples of BH, Moslems, Serbs, Croats and others.

AUGUST

8 August - The Federal Assembly of SFRY adopted several amendments to the Constitution of SFRY enabling the establishment of multiparty system.

17 August - As a reaction to the attack of the Croatian special police forces on the police station in Benkovac, Serbs took the arms from the reserve police forces and set up barricades on the lines of communications.

19 August - The Serbian people in Krajina at the referendum voted with more than 90 per cent in favour of autonomy of the Region.

20 August - The Yugoslav Federal Government required from the Croatian authorities not to prevent the plebiscite of Serbs in Kninska Krajina, and the citizens of Kninska Krajina to remove the barricades.

24 August - Due to the unrest in Kninska Krajina the Croatian Assembly adopted at its extraordinary session Resolution of the protection of the constitutional order and of national rights in Croatia; instead of Stipe Suvar Stjepan Mesic was delegated for a member of the Presidency of the SFRY.

SEPTEMBER

7 September - At the secret meeting in Kacanik (Kosovo) Albanian representatives of the dissolved Assembly of Kosovo passed the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.

28 September - The Assembly of the SR Serbia passed the new Constitution of the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Serbia was defined as "a democratic state of all of its citizens, based on freedoms and human and civil rights, rule of law and social justice". The two provinces were deprived of attributes of statehood and were turned into the forms of territorial autonomy.

OCTOBER

1 October - The Serbian National Council proclaimed the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina.

3 October - The Presidencies of the Republic Croatia and Slovenia submitted to the Presidency of the SFRY the Confederal model of the Yugoslav community.

NOVEMBER

11 November - The first ballot of the multiparty elections took place in Macedonia. After the second ballot (25 November) most number of representatives in the Assembly of Macedonia won the party VMRO- DPMNE - 37, and then the League of Communists of Macedonia - 31.

18 November - The multiparty elections took place in Bosnia- Herzegovina. The greatest number of representatives in the Assembly won the (Moslem) Party of Democratic Action - 86, the Serbian Democratic Party won 72, and the Croatian Democratic Union 44.

DECEMBER

9 December - The first ballot of multiparty elections took place in Serbia and Montenegro. It was in the first ballot that the candidates of the League of Communists won the greatest number of representatives in Montenegro. Albanians boycotted elections in Serbia. The second ballot took place in Serbia on 26 December. Due to the majority electoral system the Socialist Party of Serbia, who received 48,06 per cent of votes, won 192 out of 250 seats in the Assembly of Serbia. Slobodan Milosevic was elected President of Serbia getting in the first ballot 65,35 per cent of votes.

22 December - The Assembly of the Republic of Croatia adopted the new Constitution of the Republic of Croatia (the so- called Christmas Constitution) proclaiming the Republic of Croatia "the national state of Croats", thus demoted Serbian people in Croatia from the previous status of a constituent nation to the status of national minority. This constitutional act broke off with the principles of the socialist constitutionality and reestablished the principles of "unitarian and indivisible democratic and social state".

23 December - The plebiscite took place in Slovenia and 88,5 per cent of voters cast their votes for sovereignty and independence of Slovenia.